Help, please: The RCI Week exchange process with Bluegreen properties for Trade Power

[Jeddy]

Not sure if this is the correct forum; mods, please feel free to move this post to the correct place.

I am a new gold Bluegreen member, and wanted to book my 'free' week as soon as white season opened. For my target resort, that is RCI week 42 (per the BG website). In 2022, RCI week 42 for Fri-Fri is 1//21-28, Sat-Sat is 10/15-22, and Sun-Sun 10/16-23. I wanted a Sat-Sat week, made the call to BG Premiere, and they told me I couldn't book my week 42 as Sat-Sat because "That resort is a Friday-to-Friday deed week".

Hunh? So I ended up waiting a few days until the calendar adjusted, ended up booking a Fri-Fri (in Week 43).

"Oh, that's why we have you call us to reserve your week... there are restrictions..." (that are NOT disclosed anywhere in their public material).
Which was really weird, because in 2021 we reserved a week at the same resort, using the gold 'free' week, as a Saturday-Saturday stay.
Did something change? If so, they forgot to tell us.... which doesn't seem out-of-character, with BG....

At any rate, IF (hypothetical) we decide to exchange our week for RCI Trading Power points (which BG says is allowed, but does a poor job of explaining), is there a requirement that the renting interval conform to a "deed week" at a specific resort? I can't say that I've read a whole lot about the RCI system involving weeks, but I have never encountered a requirement that the unit to be exchanged must conform to a resort "deed week" of any kind. I imagine that it's natural if someone owns a specific week at a specific resort, and wants to convert it to RCI Trading Power points, but coming from a points-based rental system (like Bluegreen) which doesn't worry about "deed weeks", this took me by surprise.

So I am looking for anyone who has some previous experience or inner knowledge of how this system of booking "a week" with points in the Bluegreen system (or, perhaps, any other points-based timeshare system) and aligning that reservation so it can be traded into the RCI Weeks system for RCI Trading Power points.

I would have posted this in the Exchange Forum, but that Forum is locked. Is there a tutorial somewhere that addresses this situation?

Apologies in advance if this is long-winded; I don't have a good feel for what's important and what's not in the situation.

Thanks in advance!

 

[JeffC]

Not sure if this is the correct forum; mods, please feel free to move this post to the correct place.

I am a new gold Bluegreen member, and wanted to book my 'free' week as soon as white season opened. For my target resort, that is RCI week 42 (per the BG website). In 2022, RCI week 42 for Fri-Fri is 1//21-28, Sat-Sat is 10/15-22, and Sun-Sun 10/16-23. I wanted a Sat-Sat week, made the call to BG Premiere, and they told me I couldn't book my week 42 as Sat-Sat because "That resort is a Friday-to-Friday deed week".

Hunh? So I ended up waiting a few days until the calendar adjusted, ended up booking a Fri-Fri (in Week 43).

"Oh, that's why we have you call us to reserve your week... there are restrictions..." (that are NOT disclosed anywhere in their public material).
Which was really weird, because in 2021 we reserved a week at the same resort, using the gold 'free' week, as a Saturday-Saturday stay.
Did something change? If so, they forgot to tell us.... which doesn't seem out-of-character, with BG....

At any rate, IF (hypothetical) we decide to exchange our week for RCI Trading Power points (which BG says is allowed, but does a poor job of explaining), is there a requirement that the renting interval conform to a "deed week" at a specific resort? I can't say that I've read a whole lot about the RCI system involving weeks, but I have never encountered a requirement that the unit to be exchanged must conform to a resort "deed week" of any kind. I imagine that it's natural if someone owns a specific week at a specific resort, and wants to convert it to RCI Trading Power points, but coming from a points-based rental system (like Bluegreen) which doesn't worry about "deed weeks", this took me by surprise.

So I am looking for anyone who has some previous experience or inner knowledge of how this system of booking "a week" with points in the Bluegreen system (or, perhaps, any other points-based timeshare system) and aligning that reservation so it can be traded into the RCI Weeks system for RCI Trading Power points.

I would have posted this in the Exchange Forum, but that Forum is locked. Is there a tutorial somewhere that addresses this situation?

Apologies in advance if this is long-winded; I don't have a good feel for what's important and what's not in the situation.

Thanks in advance!

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