Best way to own at Club Intrawest

[blackjack]

Dear all,

After Club Intrawest started to trade with II, I have been looking at their locations and properties and I am interested. Can I purchase resale for Club Intrawest? Where is the best place to looks and what to expect $/Point?

If you are current owners, how do you like the program? Do you think the maintenance fees are fair?

Thanks in advance!!!

 

[TSPam]

Hi,
I am a current owner.
It used to be that you couldn't join Extraordinary escapes (their internal extra exchange vehicle) unless you payed a certain price per point. And you had to pay a big fee to join. You could join RCI the then exchange partner as an individual. Now that they are with II I guess that you could have an individual II account.

Also, they do exercise thier ROFR for sales below a certain value. There is a list of sales somewhere on the internet.

Also, you have to pay the money to an escrow account before they will decide to so the ROFR or not.

I use CI to exchange for the south and east. It works well for me. We have been to Tremblant and Palm Dessert. The villas are lovely but smaller than Marriott. We really liked the style of Palm dessert.

Dues were $7.19 a point for 2012. A studio in the lowest season at Wistler/Blackcomb is 33 points a 1 bed 57 points. A two bedroom summer season at Tremblant or for ski season is more than the 152 points that I have. Christmas and ski weeks are around 300 points or $2150.

I am not sure that it is good value unless you want the locations at very specific times and would need to book right at 11 months. I think that you will start to see a lot of weeks in the off season available at II now that all owners are using II for the exchange company.

Also, my individual deposit that I made since the changeover has much less trading power than the same one from last year when just a few of us used II. I think that means that anyone buying resale and having to be an individual II member would not get as good trades as we used to. They are still good but they used to be fantastic.

 

[blackjack]

Thanks Pam! A lot of useful info!

 

[Bill4728]

If you search this website for the word Intrawest you find a thread which has a lot of historical data of resale prices for CI. My guess is that it will sell resale for less than $40/pt maybe $6000 for 150 points

BUT as Pam said you can reserve for about 50pts/week a 1bd unit and make great trades for that.

Good luck

 

[blackjack]

Thanks Bill!

 

[pioneer girl]

Club Intrawest Resale and II membership question

I see from the posts on this board that Club Intrawest is now affiliated with the II exchange company. I was looking at a Club Intrawest wiki-type web page and it described the hurdles for a resale owner to participate in the Extraordinary Escapes program (minimum price per point paid and additional payment to the developer). It also stated that Club Intrawest memberships puchased before 2001 could not participate in II. So this leads me to wonder if a CI resale purchase in 2012 woud not be eligible to bank and exchange through II. Anyone know if that restriction applies to CI memberships purchased via a resale?

Thank you

 

[tashamen]

I see from the posts on this board that Club Intrawest is now affiliated with the II exchange company. I was looking at a Club Intrawest wiki-type web page and it described the hurdles for a resale owner to participate in the Extraordinary Escapes program (minimum price per point paid and additional payment to the developer). It also stated that Club Intrawest memberships puchased before 2001 could not participate in II. So this leads me to wonder if a CI resale purchase in 2012 woud not be eligible to bank and exchange through II. Anyone know if that restriction applies to CI memberships purchased via a resale?

I don't know what page you were looking at, but some of this information is not correct, for example the part about CI memberships from before 2001 not eligible to exchange through II. I have owned since before then, and I have an individual II account that I've had since I got my points, which I still use to exchange directly through II. I could also (but choose not to) now join EE and also exchange through II that way.

They (CI) have changed the rules about what new resale owners can exchange through so many times that your best bet is probably to ask them directly.