Catazog
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My husband and I just got back from a week at WKORV last night. We had good luck with the weather -- hardly any rain at the resort, but quite humid with highs in the upper 80's. We did run into rain in the early afternoon, though, when we drove to Haleakala and to the Botanical Gardens that are near the beginning of the road to Hana (WAY to many sharp curves for me, even for just a few miles. I could never make it to Hana). WKORV is still in great shape, and we got almost the same villa that we got two years ago -- the far north end of building 4 (the island view building), fifth floor, with the balcony facing north toward WKORVN. However, if you look left from the balcony you get a beautiful view of the pool and the ocean, so it's really like an ocean view room for the price of an island view unit. Nice!
It wasn't crowded at all. WKORVN isn't fully open, so the pools over there were almost empty. The WKORV pool was also uncrowded with dozens of empty lounges. No wait at the poolside restaurant and bar. We looked at the restaurant at WKORVN which is now a buffet with a different theme every night (we didn't eat there because we're not big buffet people), but it will become a high-end full service restaurant when the entire complex is finished early next year. Owners at both WKORV and WKORVN get a 15% owners discount at this restaurant as well as the beach/poolside cafe at WKORVN, but the discount does not apply at the WKORV restaurant The spa is due to be open in February.
We spoke to Jennifer, the salesperson who sold us our WKORV unit in March 2004 because we wanted to ask a few questions about WKORVN but did NOT want to sit through the arm-twisting owner update (incentive for the update is 4,500 Starpoints). Here are the current prices and incentives to buy at WKORVN (she said they are about a month away from being sold out there):
2BR IV: $62,900, no Starpoint incentive (very few left)
2BR OV: $68,900 plus 175,000 Starpoint (yes, that's 175,000!). For an additional $1,675 they will give you an addtional 80,000 Starpoints (basically the price of one year's maintenance fees for 80,000 more Starpoints)
2BR OF: $89,900, no Starpoint incentive (very few left)
We're moving to Boston from Seattle next year, so we're still debating the best thing to do with our WKORV unit. We definitely won't be traveling from Boston to Maui very often, and we really can't see ourselves trading for Atlantis every year. We've considered selling, but since we only paid $34,900 it would really hurt to give it up considering the prices they are asking now and the price we would get to sell it. In the short term we will either rent it, convert to Starpoints, or trade it for Atlantis to see what that's like. We like to travel to Europe and the Starpoint value is higher there. But, we'll see.
It wasn't crowded at all. WKORVN isn't fully open, so the pools over there were almost empty. The WKORV pool was also uncrowded with dozens of empty lounges. No wait at the poolside restaurant and bar. We looked at the restaurant at WKORVN which is now a buffet with a different theme every night (we didn't eat there because we're not big buffet people), but it will become a high-end full service restaurant when the entire complex is finished early next year. Owners at both WKORV and WKORVN get a 15% owners discount at this restaurant as well as the beach/poolside cafe at WKORVN, but the discount does not apply at the WKORV restaurant The spa is due to be open in February.
We spoke to Jennifer, the salesperson who sold us our WKORV unit in March 2004 because we wanted to ask a few questions about WKORVN but did NOT want to sit through the arm-twisting owner update (incentive for the update is 4,500 Starpoints). Here are the current prices and incentives to buy at WKORVN (she said they are about a month away from being sold out there):
2BR IV: $62,900, no Starpoint incentive (very few left)
2BR OV: $68,900 plus 175,000 Starpoint (yes, that's 175,000!). For an additional $1,675 they will give you an addtional 80,000 Starpoints (basically the price of one year's maintenance fees for 80,000 more Starpoints)
2BR OF: $89,900, no Starpoint incentive (very few left)
We're moving to Boston from Seattle next year, so we're still debating the best thing to do with our WKORV unit. We definitely won't be traveling from Boston to Maui very often, and we really can't see ourselves trading for Atlantis every year. We've considered selling, but since we only paid $34,900 it would really hurt to give it up considering the prices they are asking now and the price we would get to sell it. In the short term we will either rent it, convert to Starpoints, or trade it for Atlantis to see what that's like. We like to travel to Europe and the Starpoint value is higher there. But, we'll see.
