We purchased Westin Aventuras [95700-Star-Options EOY for $20K] Flex on Dec 24th, 2019 at Los Cabos and they retro'd 3 x WKV 2BR-EY Platinum+ [148.1K x 3 = 444300-Star-Options] making us 5-Star-Elite + Platinum [Bonvoy]. Yes it was very expensive but we did it for the retro. The WKV's were purchased resale on RedWeek for ~ $12K each.
Vistana [corporate] informed me that they only retro 1-Contract for 1-Purchase. However, the Los Cabos sales informed me that this was a special offer [promoting Flex] that was ending in a week [I believe Jan 2nd, 2020]. Also informed me that Vistana was no longer selling Weeks and there were only 3-Options
- Sheraton-Flex [mostly East-Coast]
- Westin-Flex [mostly West-Coast]
- Aventuras-Flex [only Mexican-Resorts]
The promotion was:
- $10K=1-Retro
- $15K=2-Retros
- $20K=3-Retros
- $25K4-Retros
- $30K=5-Retros and so on.
FLEX Maintenance-Fees
- Aventuras-Flex has the lowest MF [due to the Peso] but only has 3-Resorts.
- Sheraton-Flex has average MF including 6-Resorts.
- Westin-Flex has the most expensive MF with 7-Resorts as it includes Hawaii, WKV, Palm-Desert & Riverfront-Avon.
Maintenance-Fees on all Flex-Programs is higher than Deeded-Weeks. Example below.
- WLR: $0.0101/Star-Option [$1490/148.1K/Year]
- WKV: $0.0111/Star-Option [$1645/148.1K/Year]
- Aventuras-Flex: $0.0147/Star-Option [$1402/95.7K/Year] [almost 50% Higher]