For the 1st time in a long while, Vacation Village At Parkway once again showed up as available when I was searching yesterday for RCI
Bonus Week reservations.
For $299 plus tax & guest certificate -- and minus 10% RCI Platinum discount -- I got my son & daughter-in-law a 2BR
Bonus Week reservation for check-in the middle of next month.
The apparent bad blood between Vacation Village At Parkway &
Armed Forces Vacation Club seems unchanged. The fine print on the RCI reservation for Vacation Village At Parkway said no reservations through Armed Forces Vacation Club will be honored, no way, no how, a strange notification in view of the fact that Vacation Village At Parkway never shows up as available through Armed Forced Vacation Club anyway.
Meanwhile, unrelated to Vacation Village At Parkway but semi-pertinent to Armed Forces Vacation Club, I used a resort certificate purchased yesterday from
Resort Certificates Dot Com to snag my other daughter-in-law a nice 2BR reservation in July at
High Point World Resort (west of the Disney Gap). The week my daughter-in-law wanted was already on sale through Armed Forces Vacation Club for $329. As it happened, the same reservation was available through Resort Certificates, which was running a sale -- 2 certificates for $500 (no tax). So I bought 2 certificates & used 1 immediately for my daughter-in-law's High Point World Resort reservation -- no added fees, no tax, & no guest certificate. Plus, I have another unused resort certificate left over that's good for the next 264 days.
Is this a great country or what ?
-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.