Accommodation Certificate
Interval International (II) offers an incentive bonus to owners of high-demand weeks who deposit them with II. That bonus is an Accommodation Certificate ("AC"), which can be exchanged for a week through II. Your exchange choices will be limited and generally won’t be prime season weeks. Thus, there are effectively blackout dates and blackout resorts. The restrictions for your AC will differ from the restrictions on some other ACs.
In addition, you can use your deposited week to exchange for another week.
During the last 59 days (“Flexchange”) before a week for which you would like to redeem your AC, you can see almost any week available in the II exchange system, other than those weeks restricted for various resort system (such as Marriott) internal trading preferences.
The cost to redeem an AC ranges from $199 to $299. The AC is valid for one year from the date it is issued, which is usually soon after you make your deposit. Thus, to use your AC, you must reserve and take your additional vacation during that one-year period. That suggests some strategy, since the longer you wait before depositing, the longer you will have to use that AC once it is issued. The challenge is to balance that additional time against possible reduced trading power for your week due to delaying your deposit.
There is no guarantee that you'll receive an AC every year you deposit your week. The demand for your week could change, possibly leading II to stop offering an AC for your week. Also, you won't get an AC if you use the request-first method for requesting an exchange, under which you hold onto your week until you get an exchange that's acceptable to you.
Because most available weeks that can be confirmed with an AC are off-season (except during Flexchange), ACs don’t work well for everyone. Many, many ACs go unused. However, if you don’t mind traveling in the off-season or scheduling your trip on short notice (during Flexchange), you might well be thrilled with the results.
To determine if your week currently qualifies for an AC, follow these steps:
1. Log in.
2. Select "Exchange".
3. Select "Deposit/Extend a Week".
4. Select "Deposit" for an eligible (1BR or larger) 2008 week.
5. Enter (or make up) your 8-digit "Reservation No." starting with "8". Also select your actual or a hypothetical "Check-in Date". Then click on "Continue".
6. If you are lucky, the next screen ("Deposit Details") will have two paragraphs. The first paragraph will explain how long you will have to complete an exchange if you deposit the week. The second paragraph, the one you hope to see, will read something like the following:
Deposit this unit and you'll earn a Bonus Week Certificate that's good for an additional one-week accommodations at an Interval member resort (certain fees and restrictions may apply). Once your unit is verified for deposit, the certificate will be issued so come back to IntervalWorld.com soon to check on the status of - and to start planning - your bonus vacation.
7. At that "Deposit Details" screen,
do not click on "Deposit" unless you really want to deposit it!
To my surprise, I searched on Hawaii and had several great options that were the same when I searched with a regular TS exchange. The cost would have been less than $250 (I should have written down the exact amount for accurate reporting).
so many guesses at what dr stands for....... I guess I'll just let you all keep guessing. Never would have thought of Dominican Republic, LOL!