Interesting. Since I'd be quite interested in that as well and they didn't answer the phone, I sent the following e-mail to the one listed with the phone number you provided,concierge@vacationvillageresorts.com.
To Whom It May Concern:
I own several Vacation Village and affiliate weeks at Massanutten Woodstone, Summit and Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort. The Woodstone and Fort Lauderdale ones are in the RCI points program, but someone just pointed out to me that on your website at
http://www.vacationvillageresorts.com/VVR/explore_timeshare.php it states:
Explore Timeshare
Timeshare vacations offer families upscale villa resorts and cherished memories at affordable prices. Today’s timeshares are about flexibility, choice and comfort. Whatever your stage of life, there has never been a better time to discover timeshare vacations through Vacation Village Resorts.
The Timeshare industry over the last twenty five years has evolved from fixed weeks to floating weeks and now Points programs. Each transition along the way provided timeshare owners with greater flexibility planning their vacations. Only Vacation Village Resorts offers all three types of ownership to discerning owners.
Why Timeshare
Points - With Points you have the flexibility to choose how many days you want to stay or where you want to stay. You can use Points to book airlines, hotel stays, rent a car or book a cruise, and more through our Points Partner's Programs.
Flexibility - Exchangeable Worldwide - Timeshare is exchangeable to almost 4,000 destinations and over 100 countries world wide thru Resort Condominiums International (RCI), Platinum Interchange or Interval International.
You can also internally exchange to sixty Vacation Village Resorts and Affiliates.
Memories - Family vacations strengthen family bonds while creating a lifetime of memories.
Great Vacation Value - Timeshare allows you to lock in future vacations with today’s dollars. For the cost of about seven family vacations you can leverage your leisure dollars into a lifetime of cherished memories.
Comforts of home - Owners stay in superior accommodations at luxury resorts. Most accommodations are spacious condominiums with fully equipped kitchens and multiple bedrooms with award winning amenities.
I’m interested in the highlighted sentence and attempted to call, but apparently the concierges are a bit busy with other customers. Can you tell me how the internal exchange system works? Because it is described in the highlighted sentence as being an additional system of exchanging to RCI, Platinum Interchange and Interval International, I wanted to explore how this works; I assume it is different than the discounted RCI exchange programs described at
http://www.internalexchange.net. Truly appreciate whatever information you can provide on how the system works and what I need to do in order to participate; this had not been explained to me when I purchased these timeshares, but it may be a program that did not exist at the time.
Very Many Thanks in advance for your help on this! I look forward to hearing back from you so that I can share the information with several of my friends that also own Vacation Village resorts.
Regards,
I'll update this once I hear back from them. They've got a decent number of resorts in a good spread of places; it might be worth it depending on the cost and resort week exchange rates....