i know. but it gets me where i want to go for a great price. I'm going to Park City 350k points. $1,400 night. Renting out 1 week for $4k and still have left over options, $7k room stay will cost me maybe $3k if I don't rent out another property. It is fuzzy math but I work every angle.
Yea, they had all of my property print outs, one per deeded week ownership. Looks like the same ones i get at any location’s sales presentation. The printout clearly had no Abound point value for my Bay Vista in St John, but did for all the rest. There was some word in the point value position that i cant recall at this time. And their web form that allows them to add property’s to see the Abount point value all added up has no option for Bay Vista either. (I have seen some photos from others posted in this thread that looked like the same app. My sales rep introduced themselves as a Mariott 10+ year sales person and im currently at the Sheraton in Myrtle Beach.
Agree with your perspective on Bonvoy-Points.
No- Bay Vista is just Voluntary StarOptions. Sunset Bay and Coral Vista are the new HomeOptions concept.
Yes. If you get more than 10K, you will be Presidential. Our close friend who is 4 star elite, translates to well over Chairman's Club. He also owns an enrolled Ko Olina week. They are not moving the goal post, i.e. point requirement for each level, during this launch. I speculate that over the next 18 months, they will create a new level above Chairman's Club with improved benefits over Chairman's Club. I doubt they will need to grandfather in Chairman's Club owners who don't make this new level, as long as they don't reduce Chairman's Club benefits.
I agree with you - the way for Marriott to continue recuperating costs from this merger is to continue to incentivize people/owners to upgrade. At our recent presentation they did say anyone already at a certain level will keep those same benefits no matter what.
When did you hear it? We met with corporate sales yesterday, their current target date is on August 1, after the 15 hours downtime.
So maybe there is truth in the rumor that they are going to file for Chapter 11 and have already issued the pink slips in advance
I guess that guy with the envelope marked "open on August 2nd" will be disappointed
Yeah, they probably will get another envelope that says to open on the 1st and it will say inside to not open the other envelope till the 7th. I think the dates at this point sare just comical. I get the impression they are pushing the dates back to try and sell down Westin and Sheraton Flex in addition to technical issues they are running into.I guess that guy with the envelope marked "open on August 2nd" will be disappointed
It's like an episode of Get Smart! Good point on the sell down, entirely possible. I had the thought today that I'm glad that I don't work at Marriott in charge of all of this stuff because it seems like a huge headache. Happy to be an owner out here taking the ride instead.
I wish there was another way to communicate with all sales employees simultaneously and send mail like this electronically. It would avoid having to lick envelops.
