DannyTS - Appreciate your recap. And to everyone else on here for providing such great info on the program ins/outs that keep all of us straight.
We attended an owner update yesterday at Sheraton Broadway Plantation. The sales rep certainly sold it like the entire program was converting to Marriott and all our deeded weeks would be worth less because Marriott would be squeezing us out along with less owners in the VSN network all jumping ship to the Marriott Club Points causing an increase in MFs for those that remain. Tied to that, they also expressed improvement of the SO to Bonvoy points conversion, and I admit that was much better than out current conversion rate...although I’ve never done that due to the extremely poor conversation rate. We bit on the thought that it was now all Marriott points. The deal wasn’t a new buy of points, it was a return of our EOY deeded week/points and the issuance of annual points, essentially buying a full year of 67K points, plus 28K bonus SOs, and another $11K.
Today I received confirmation that in fact we signed for SVN Flex SOs, not Marriott program points. I KNOW...FOOLISH US! We will be returning within the recission period. I’ve already started the letter.
I’ll be interested to see what the enrollment fee may be for Marriott access as they work through the integration. I’ll welcome any kind thoughts and comments on the overlay effort that you’ve seen in recent updates.