All --
Long-time DVC owner that is looking seriously at the Hyatt system. Primarily for use at Wild Oak in the form of "off-season" 3-day weekends.
The information here and at Kal's website have been incredibly helpful. Still I have a couple of random questions that I'm hoping someone can help me with:
(1) Some Hyatts seem to have arrivals only on Saturday. A few on Sunday or Saturday. And then Wild Oak and Pinion Point allow arrivals on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. I'm a bit confused how this later kind of arrival flexibility gels with the concept of a fixed week.
(a) Is an arrival date specific to the contract, but set? (I.e. some contracts arrive on Friday, some on Saturday, some Sunday?) Or do you pick an arrival date on each usage?
(b) Is there the same arrival date flexibility on split week, 3-day weekends? And, if not, is the set arrival date always Friday for 3-day weekend stays?
(2) I keep reading how I would be wise to target a unit that has at least 2,000 points in trading power, as it greatly enhances not just length of stay, but overall availability in trading.
Does the same hold true as you continue to increase the contract size? For example, I'm looking at a Gold-3 bedroom (2,520 points) versus a Platinum-2 bedroom (2,000) or Diamond 2-bedroom (2,200) points. Will all those result in roughly the same available inventory for trading? Or would I will I have more choices if I have 2,520?
For the foreseeable future, I see us using this almost exclusively at Wild Oak -- we are in Houston and love long weekends in S.A. outside of the dead of summer -- but I'd like to keep other options reasonably open.
(3) How concerned should I be about the rumored plan to move to a "purely points" based system? I'm thinking the worse that can happen is that I effectively get restricted to usage at my home resort -- a result I would be totally fine with. The DVC system has served me exceptionally well for a decade now, so perhaps I'm not as concerned about such a move as I should be.
Any thoughts are greatly appreciated!
Long-time DVC owner that is looking seriously at the Hyatt system. Primarily for use at Wild Oak in the form of "off-season" 3-day weekends.
The information here and at Kal's website have been incredibly helpful. Still I have a couple of random questions that I'm hoping someone can help me with:
(1) Some Hyatts seem to have arrivals only on Saturday. A few on Sunday or Saturday. And then Wild Oak and Pinion Point allow arrivals on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. I'm a bit confused how this later kind of arrival flexibility gels with the concept of a fixed week.
(a) Is an arrival date specific to the contract, but set? (I.e. some contracts arrive on Friday, some on Saturday, some Sunday?) Or do you pick an arrival date on each usage?
(b) Is there the same arrival date flexibility on split week, 3-day weekends? And, if not, is the set arrival date always Friday for 3-day weekend stays?
(2) I keep reading how I would be wise to target a unit that has at least 2,000 points in trading power, as it greatly enhances not just length of stay, but overall availability in trading.
Does the same hold true as you continue to increase the contract size? For example, I'm looking at a Gold-3 bedroom (2,520 points) versus a Platinum-2 bedroom (2,000) or Diamond 2-bedroom (2,200) points. Will all those result in roughly the same available inventory for trading? Or would I will I have more choices if I have 2,520?
For the foreseeable future, I see us using this almost exclusively at Wild Oak -- we are in Houston and love long weekends in S.A. outside of the dead of summer -- but I'd like to keep other options reasonably open.
(3) How concerned should I be about the rumored plan to move to a "purely points" based system? I'm thinking the worse that can happen is that I effectively get restricted to usage at my home resort -- a result I would be totally fine with. The DVC system has served me exceptionally well for a decade now, so perhaps I'm not as concerned about such a move as I should be.
Any thoughts are greatly appreciated!