I spoke with Karen at Owner Care, Conversions, today trying to get a few answers about the "From Fixed to Flexible" offer. She said no conversions have been done yet, but Wyndham hopes to get this going within a month. The August 31st dealine will be extended. I called to enquire about converting our four Wyndham Kona Hawaiian Resort "floating weeks" to points, and was told they were eligible. But I was really surprised to be told that there would be a fee of $189 per week (contract). The "FF to F" promo says "All conversion fees and incremental purchase requirements will be waived", so that's misleading.
The points from converting these weeks would be added to our existing Club Wyndham Plus VIP Gold account, and we would retain the standard 13 month APR for the WKH, as the home resort. Karen could not say if the converted points would count towards a higher VIP tier. She could also not say if a converted week was sold in the future whether it would transfer to a new owner as a points or as a floating week. At the moment, conversion would have an "opt out" in future, and an owner could have converted weeks return to being fixed/floating weeks ownership.
What to make of all this? We really won't know the details until Wyndham sends out a written conversion document contract to review. Clearly, converting to points offers more Wyndham destinations, varied length of stay and size of unit, and allows for saving points forward. But it also adds a new annual expense by way of the Club Wyndham Plus program fee. If we wish to travel to more Wyndham resorts, it's an easy decision, we should convert. If we want to return to Kona for a month each winter, we should probably not convert.
