II E-Plus

[b2bailey]

Just when I think I've mastered the nuances...

I recently exchanged my legacy week at Newport Beach for Ko-Olina. (Yippee!!)
I added e-plus.

Just now, out of curiosity, I clicked on the E- plus option.
When filling out parameters, I was surprised to see the following note:

"This retrade must be used for Flexchange® - exchanges made 59 days to 24 hours before check-in."

I am surprised it entered into Flexchange. How did that happen?

 

[tschwa2]

What date is your Ko Olina exchange?

 

[b2bailey]

May 03 to May 10

 

[bnoble]

Because you are less than 60 days now, you are Flexchange-restricted.

 

[Ski-Dad]

Because you are less than 60 days now, you are Flexchange-restricted.

As the OP has noted, this is a change.

Assuming her deposit was not under the 60 day threshold, her Eplus exchange being less than 60 has not previously been relevant. Until recently you could trade via Eplus up to a day prior, which I have done. More recently the Eplus exchange was limited to 14 plus days, which was widely discussed on the forum as being a major loss in the value proposition. Many questioned whether Eplus was still worthwhile. I still viewed Eplus as having value, particularly for trips more than 6 to 8 months out.

If what the OP is experiencing is the new rule, I anticipate very few Tuggers would bother with Eplus. Many of us have utilized it as a form of quasi insurance. *bleep* happens and plans change

 

[dioxide45]

Just when I think I've mastered the nuances...

I recently exchanged my legacy week at Newport Beach for Ko-Olina. (Yippee!!)
I added e-plus.

Just now, out of curiosity, I clicked on the E- plus option.
When filling out parameters, I was surprised to see the following note:

"This retrade must be used for Flexchange® - exchanges made 59 days to 24 hours before check-in."

I am surprised it entered into Flexchange. How did that happen?

As noted, once you are inside 59 days from checkin you are in Flexchange with any retrades. Though I think that text is old rules. It is actually 59 days to 14 days before check-in.

 

[bnoble]

Yeah I thought the 59 day thing had been around at least a few years. The 14 day part is newer.

 

[dioxide45]

Yeah I thought the 59 day thing had been around at least a few years. The 14 day part is newer.

Yeah, the Flexchange restriction has existed since II rolled out Eplus. 14 days is as of February 1, 2024. Now if the OP made the initial exchange prior to February 1, 2024, then the 24 hour restrade deadline still applies.

 

[tschwa2]

Just when I think I've mastered the nuances...

I recently exchanged my legacy week at Newport Beach for Ko-Olina. (Yippee!!)
I added e-plus.

Just now, out of curiosity, I clicked on the E- plus option.
When filling out parameters, I was surprised to see the following note:

"This retrade must be used for Flexchange® - exchanges made 59 days to 24 hours before check-in."

I am surprised it entered into Flexchange. How did that happen?

No change. This has always been the case with eplus. You may have never done a retrade within 59 days or did but were never aware of the restrictions but that restriction is not new.

While you now can exchange into something from 24 hrs from today up to 59 days out from when you are currently confirmed into; at 14 days prior to check in from your current confirmation, eplus will go away completely.

 

[chellej]

No change. This has always been the case with eplus. You may have never done a retrade within 59 days or did but were never aware of the restrictions but that restriction is not new.

While you now can exchange into something from 24 hrs from today up to 59 days out from when you are currently confirmed into; at 14 days prior to check in from your current confirmation, eplus will go away completely.

So if I understand this correctly, you can only retrade up to 14 days prior to check in. What happens if you cancel the exchange between 15 and 60 days, do they give you a replacement week good for the next year? It will be limited to flexchange...Is this correct?

 

[dioxide45]

So if I understand this correctly, you can only retrade up to 14 days prior to check in. What happens if you cancel the exchange between 15 and 60 days, do they give you a replacement week good for the next year? It will be limited to flexchange...Is this correct?

That is correct. Thus why if you have an EPlus retrade available, you should retrade outside the 60 day window then cancel.

 

[chellej]

That is correct. Thus why if you have an EPlus retrade available, you should retrade outside the 60 day window then cancel.

Thank you...that is brilliant and worked perfectly. I totally forgot about the 60 day window and there was just no way we are going to be able to go anywhere before fall and figured I was going to be stuck to flex. Now I will have 2 years to use the week

 

[tschwa2]

Thank you...that is brilliant and worked perfectly. I totally forgot about the 60 day window and there was just no way we are going to be able to go anywhere before fall and figured I was going to be stuck to flex. Now I will have 2 years to use the week

You only have one year to use the replacement week but you can book something that is one year out and then add eplus again that will give you that second year but you would be stuck with 3 manual exchanges. You would not be able to get a replacement week on the replacement week.

 

[GrayFal]

You only have one year to use the replacement week but you can book something that is one year out and then add eplus again that will give you that second year but you would be stuck with 3 manual exchanges. You would not be able to get a replacement week on the replacement week.

Thanks, I did not realize I could exchange the replacement week and then add eplus again

 

[chellej]

So I have used my 3rd exchange to get a week for early July...the furthest out it will allow. Right now if I select retrade, it will let me search out 2 years from today and of course, pay another exchange fee. I wonder if I did retrade it if I could add eplus to the new exchange?

 

[tschwa2]

So I have used my 3rd exchange to get a week for early July...the furthest out it will allow. Right now if I select retrade, it will let me search out 2 years from today and of course, pay another exchange fee. I wonder if I did retrade it if I could add eplus to the new exchange?

It should revert back to whatever was your original expiration date for the deposit, at least that is how is has been for me in the past It should have nothing to do with today's date. If you were at the limit of the original expiration and then used eplus to get you any past that original expiration, it would not let you do a regular retrade.

Whenever I have done a regular retrade, it doesn't give me the option to add eplus to the transaction. I am not sure if within a day or so the eplus option would appear or not. Because I am usually butting up against the exchange expiration, it is usually more advantageous for me to get a replacement week than to do a retrade.

 

[chellej]

The original expiration date of the deposit is 7/27. The system will not allow me to search that far out...system limitation vs deposit limitation.

 

[dioxide45]

It should revert back to whatever was your original expiration date for the deposit, at least that is how is has been for me in the past It should have nothing to do with today's date. If you were at the limit of the original expiration and then used eplus to get you any past that original expiration, it would not let you do a regular retrade.

Whenever I have done a regular retrade, it doesn't give me the option to add eplus to the transaction. I am not sure if within a day or so the eplus option would appear or not. Because I am usually butting up against the exchange expiration, it is usually more advantageous for me to get a replacement week than to do a retrade.

Odd. Any time we’ve done retrades with Marriott to Marriott the ability to add Eplus is enabled again

 

[rickandcindy23]

There was a glitch a few weeks ago, and maybe it's still happening, I have no idea, but I was able to put the travel from date way ahead of the travel to date.

So I entered 2/6/2026 and the date in Flexchange, less than 60 days out. I was able to book a Marriott's Cypress Harbour week for January of 2026. I was relieved but it was something I did accidentally.

I was looking with another week, then switched to a week in my Exchange HIstory. Then I used the same check-in date I had before, and it went to the page to correct the search, I chose the 60 days the computer reverted to, hit enter, and I saw dates in January. I still have two retrades left through March on that week.

yeah, it's still working: