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Encore with enrollment

Lisa8192

Lisa8192

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Hopefully I made a good decision yesterday! Went to my first presentation in 16 years! I wanted to learn about enrolling my Barony platinum weeks. They tried selling more points to get me to the president level.. or something like that. Way to pricey for me.. I ended up taking the encore trip. $1195 for 4 nights anywhere on the grid, 50,000 points or $300 and my weeks got enrolled. Hoping that was a good deal. Or rather, my best option for getting my weeks enrolled. Still don't have a complete grasp on the system but it seems I can do a lot more with the points my weeks earned than just 2 weeks in Hilton Head in summer. Plus.. after the heat down here this week.. off season is starting to look good!


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Assuming you can and will actually use the encore trip, that is the best deal out there for enrolling eligible yet previously unenrolled weeks.

Well done!!!
 
Lisa8192 said:
Hopefully I made a good decision yesterday! Went to my first presentation in 16 years! I wanted to learn about enrolling my Barony platinum weeks. They tried selling more points to get me to the president level.. or something like that. Way to pricey for me.. I ended up taking the encore trip. $1195 for 4 nights anywhere on the grid, 50,000 points or $300 and my weeks got enrolled. Hoping that was a good deal. Or rather, my best option for getting my weeks enrolled. Still don't have a complete grasp on the system but it seems I can do a lot more with the points my weeks earned than just 2 weeks in Hilton Head in summer. Plus.. after the heat down here this week.. off season is starting to look good!


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For us the DC program doesn't bring much value as we already own at the places that we do see where it could bring value but the one place I did see as bringing very good value was shoulder season on HHI.

For a full week's vacation I honestly didn't see any other locations that you could get a nice 2BDRM for a reasonable amount of points except HHI shoulder season. I don't have the numbers as to what you get for a summer BB but I'd bet you could convert 2 summer weeks into perhaps 4 shoulder weeks.

I already own 11 great shoulder season HHi Marriott weeks so I can't take advantage there. As a result, for us, even though the encore package with the 4 night stay and the points is a very good value in itself now I'm enrolled and need to pay the yearly fee even though I didn't use the DC program in 2017 and likely never will, I may ask to be de-enrolled.
 
Lisa8192 said:
Hopefully I made a good decision yesterday! Went to my first presentation in 16 years! I wanted to learn about enrolling my Barony platinum weeks. They tried selling more points to get me to the president level.. or something like that. Way to pricey for me.. I ended up taking the encore trip. $1195 for 4 nights anywhere on the grid, 50,000 points or $300 and my weeks got enrolled. Hoping that was a good deal. Or rather, my best option for getting my weeks enrolled. Still don't have a complete grasp on the system but it seems I can do a lot more with the points my weeks earned than just 2 weeks in Hilton Head in summer. Plus.. after the heat down here this week.. off season is starting to look good!


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We took the same deal last year. Enrolled our Barony silver week bought from Marriott and our Shadowridge week bought resale prior to 2010. Haven't converted any weeks to points yet, but know that is an option if we need it.
 
Lisa8192 said:
Hopefully I made a good decision yesterday! Went to my first presentation in 16 years! I wanted to learn about enrolling my Barony platinum weeks. They tried selling more points to get me to the president level.. or something like that. Way to pricey for me.. I ended up taking the encore trip. $1195 for 4 nights anywhere on the grid, 50,000 points or $300 and my weeks got enrolled. Hoping that was a good deal. Or rather, my best option for getting my weeks enrolled. Still don't have a complete grasp on the system but it seems I can do a lot more with the points my weeks earned than just 2 weeks in Hilton Head in summer. Plus.. after the heat down here this week.. off season is starting to look good!


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Good for you. To my knowledge that is the cheapest way to get your weeks enrolled. Sounds like you will end up somewhere in the Executive level (of DC points value for the weeks you enrolled). That's a fine place to be. No need to look at Presidential (unless your current/projected travel patterns can realize any of the added benefits like extended banking/borrowing windows and last minute reservation discounts).
 
So it's been a week since I signed up for Encore and convert my weeks. Haven't heard a thing from Marriott? Does it usually take this long to get some sort of confirmation?


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Lisa8192 said:
So it's been a week since I signed up for Encore and convert my weeks. Haven't heard a thing from Marriott? Does it usually take this long to get some sort of confirmation?
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If you're referring the "paperwork" to complete enrolling your weeks, this was our experience. We signed up at Shadowridge on 2/14/16 and we received our email with enrollment "paperwork" on 2/18/16 -- so 4 days. Of course, that was last year and it may depend on how quickly they submit/process your application where you attended your presentation.
 
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Lisa8192 said:
So it's been a week since I signed up for Encore and convert my weeks. Haven't heard a thing from Marriott? Does it usually take this long to get some sort of confirmation?


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From our own Encore experience, they didn't really 'engage' with us about scheduling when to use the Encore stay until we had it paid off in full. If you have already paid for it and know your travel dates, you can contact them to schedule (if you are within the inventory release dates for when/where you want to go). As far as completing the enrollment process. It was a good 6 weeks as I recall before we heard anything from Marriott regarding the enrollment being recorded and our weeks now being convertible to points. In fact, I believe we first noticed it ourselves one day logging into our online MVCI owner account when we saw that next to our weeks there were additional options to convert to DC points besides just making a reservation. We did eventually get something in the mail even later than 6 weeks. Hang in there.
 
kds4 said:
From our own Encore experience, they didn't really 'engage' with us about scheduling when to use the Encore stay until we had it paid off in full. If you have already paid for it and know your travel dates, you can contact them to schedule (if you are within the inventory release dates for when/where you want to go). As far as completing the enrollment process. It was a good 6 weeks as I recall before we heard anything from Marriott regarding the enrollment being recorded and our weeks now being convertible to points. In fact, I believe we first noticed it ourselves one day logging into our online MVCI owner account when we saw that next to our weeks there were additional options to convert to DC points besides just making a reservation. We did eventually get something in the mail even later than 6 weeks. Hang in there.
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Marriott scheduled us for our Encore visit before we paid off the (interest-free) cost of the stay. Ours was at MOC if that matters.
 
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Marriott scheduled us for our Encore visit before we paid off the (interest-free) cost of the stay. Ours was at MOC if that matters.
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After double-checking our records, you are correct. We were allowed to make the reservation prior to paying off the Encore, but we had to have it paid for by a certain point prior to check-in. I don't remember the exact number of days. It may have been 30 days prior to check-in. I need to rub my magic AARP card and see if the genie will jog my memory...
 
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