conversion to Marriott hotel points

[Raza]

Hi

Do Marriott vacation club resales qualify for conversion to Marriott hotel points. I am interested in buying a timeshare that allows for such conversion

Thanks

 

[classiclincoln]

Pretty sure resales don't qualify for Marriott Reward Point conversion.

 

[csalter2]

Hi

Do Marriott vacation club resales qualify for conversion to Marriott hotel points. I am interested in buying a timeshare that allows for such conversion

Thanks

Resale weeks don’t qualify. Resale [Destination Club] points qualify if you pay Marriott’s junk fees to enter them into the vacation club.

 

[Steve Fatula]

It's also generally not cost effective, even if they were eligible, which they are not. Even more-so after the recent MR changes.

 

[newportbeach]

The answer lies in a definition of words. Look at the word points, and that one word tells you nothing. The answer is the type of points. A mere Marriott timeshare may or may not have points. As you recall most old deeded weeks do not have points, just a usable or exchangeable week's
use. The came either grandfathered weeks you resubmitted into the vacation club, which is a week plus an election into points. The came weeks purchased directly from Marriott that are point of the Trust. These last two times have Marriott Vacation Club Points, and I believe the
deadline to convert those into "Marriott Reward Points" is June 30th each year. In the past 20 years, I certainly never converted Vacation Club Points into Reward Points simply because Vacation Club Points which are usable for timeshare weeks convert at a greatly substantial lesser
value for Reward Points. I have a great number of Reward points available either a Chase Marriott Card bonus at sign up, or by using the credit card for Marriott related expenses such as MF or rental and obtain 6 Marriott Reward Point per dollar spent. As such Marriott Reward points
is like a free( ha ha) bonus, just like you get airlines bonus points after spending hundreds of dollars buying an airline ticket. To illustrate, a "free" night using Marriott Reward points obtained from spending money on Marriott averages for me charging $5,000 to get a free night. So clearly
Marriott Rewards works good for high Marriott/SPG uses, and not the average guy unless you play the credit card sign up game, which is certainly not desired by a lot people, except the card does give you a free night annually which is of value if you indeed annually use it.

 

[ljmiii]

Do Marriott vacation club resales qualify for conversion to Marriott hotel points....

If you buy a 'direct resale' week from MVCI you can convert that week into Marriott Rewards Points. Some weeks can be converted to MRPs every year, some only every other year. Note that the week does not have to be enrolled nor does it have to be part of a 'hybrid/bundle' purchase w/DPs - it just has to be bought directly from MVCI. In today's world of devaluated MRPs there are very few weeks that are worth buying just to convert into MRPs...but that is your call.

Or you can buy Marriott Vacation Club points (aka Destination Points or DPs) resale (usually $4-$5/pt) and pay MVCI's fees - $3/pt (min $3000) + ROFR ($95) + transfer ($0.10/pt) to activate them. Each year you can then convert somewhere between 50-75% of those Vacation Club Points into MRPs at a rate of 1DP to 40 MRPs (the percentage depends on your MVCI ownership tier).