Thank you for your overview....it was very helpful to me! I just sat through a DC presentation yesterday so while my questions are fresh I will ask them here. Please redirect me if needed.
I bought a 4 weeks at Ritz Aspen and was told I could convert some or all my weeks to DC points so that is what I did with 3 of my 4 weeks since we bought in October and needed to make a fast decision. I think I made a bad choice as when I tried to use those VC points to reserve (13 months out) I could not get one spot in the entire Carribbean for Christmas week 2017! Not one! And I called at 8 a.m. MST when they open. (As a Ritz owner I am not allowed in the Marriott website to reserve-I HAVE to call my Ritz rep and they log in to Marriott). So I decided to look into buying some Trust points to see if it would benefit me in any way. Of course at the sales presentation they said that there is a bigger "pool" of points for what they termed a Hybrid owner...one who had legacy weeks AND trust points. I called Ritz yesterday and they said nope that is not true. Can anyone clarify that for me?
I also -as a Ritz owner-cannot do anything with Interval International nor can I trade my VC points into Marriott reward points as VC owners are able to do. I would love to gain those benefits for ALL my "Ritz converted to Marriott VC points".
Anyone have any insight?
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I bought a 4 weeks at Ritz Aspen and was told I could convert some or all my weeks to DC points so that is what I did with 3 of my 4 weeks since we bought in October and needed to make a fast decision. I think I made a bad choice as when I tried to use those VC points to reserve (13 months out) I could not get one spot in the entire Carribbean for Christmas week 2017! Not one! And I called at 8 a.m. MST when they open. (As a Ritz owner I am not allowed in the Marriott website to reserve-I HAVE to call my Ritz rep and they log in to Marriott). So I decided to look into buying some Trust points to see if it would benefit me in any way. Of course at the sales presentation they said that there is a bigger "pool" of points for what they termed a Hybrid owner...one who had legacy weeks AND trust points. I called Ritz yesterday and they said nope that is not true. Can anyone clarify that for me?
I also -as a Ritz owner-cannot do anything with Interval International nor can I trade my VC points into Marriott reward points as VC owners are able to do. I would love to gain those benefits for ALL my "Ritz converted to Marriott VC points".
Anyone have any insight?
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