Exchange Potential for Vistana Resort

[amanven]

Have just recently purchased a 2 BR prime season floating week at Vistana Resort. Just wondering what the exchange potential is for this resort should we choose to take our winter vacation somewhere other than Orlando. I know that I would have to go through RCI or II as this unit was purchased resale so the SVN is unavaliable. We would be looking primairily for Hawaii or other Florida locations.

 

[Bill4728]

Vistana is one of only a handfull of resorts which has a super cheap convertion to RCI points. (~$300) You may find that converting to, then trading thru RCI points, may give you the broadest number of choices.

 

[DeniseM]

I'm going to move your post to the Starwood board, because Starwood has some very special rules regarding II exchanges. Starwood resorts have a 3 day priority for all other Starwood resorts deposited with II. Using this priority, owners are able to get exchanges to the 3 Starwood resorts in Hawaii, using low cost resale weeks, but mostly off-season. There is a block on exchanging back into other Florida resorts through II, but you can get around it by asking Starwood to deposit a non-Florida week for you.

For lots of info. about exactly how this works, see the Interval International Article in Owner Resources, at the top of the board, listed under "Exchanging."

 

[Stefa]

I used to own at Vistana Villages and when I did test trades in II, I was not able to see Hawaii weeks that others said they could see. I'm not sure if this is because I was using a week that wasn't actually deposited, but I don't have the same problem when searching with my SDO.

 

[jjlovecub]

I have had great success trading Vistana BUT I always deposit and search at least a year out.

 

[calgarygary]

I used to own at Vistana Villages and when I did test trades in II, I was not able to see Hawaii weeks that others said they could see. I'm not sure if this is because I was using a week that wasn't actually deposited, but I don't have the same problem when searching with my SDO.

I did deposit my VV week but had Starwood replace it with an SDO - there is a big difference in what the 2 resorts will allow you to see on II.