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We always take the discounts on tours, like Chichen Itza, Tulum, Xcaret, etc.
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We are not Starwood owners and took a $100 resort credit to take a sales presentation on our last visit.
New to the forums but seriously considering buying into the Starwood program. I will be in Cancun this coming May and want to check out the property/units at Lagunamar and potentially buy in at that time.
As I understand, there are referral offers in place from current owners to prospective buyers for specific promotional offers, i.e. 4 nights for $319 + 5k SPG points...if anyone is a current owner and has access to this type of referral and interested can you please PM me?
Cheers!
Matt
As I understand, there are referral offers in place from current owners to prospective buyers for specific promotional offers, i.e. 4 nights for $319 + 5k SPG points...if anyone is a current owner and has access to this type of referral and interested can you please PM me?
Cheers!
Matt
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Read this forum's FAQs, and then buy resale and save $$$.
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Congrats on finding this forum.
The Starwood program is great - however, buy resale.
Look at how much Lagunamar costs on the resale market - and compare to buying from SVO. HUGE difference. I am not saying to buy Lagunamar on resale market unless you plan to use it regularly. If you do a Sales presentation - watch out for the use of fuzzy math to convince you to buy from them.
Suggest to first heavily research all aspects of the resale market (including outside Starwood) to determine which best fits your vacation needs, but rarely does that include buying from SVO unless you have a very specific purpose and have the disposable income (upfront and coming years).
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I took the Westin Lagunamar tour in December and they were horrible. I could not even get a price quote from them. There is a price chart by the door and I snuck a peak. A Platinum 2BR week is priced around $35,000. The same week sells in the secondary market for $7,000 to $10,000. If you desperatly need staroptions, the 148,100 points week at Kierland sells for $19,000.
If you buy retail at Lagunamar foir $35,000, you TUG membership should be cancelled and all your posts in this forum deleted.
I took the Westin Lagunamar tour in December and they were horrible. I could not even get a price quote from them. There is a price chart by the door and I snuck a peak. A Platinum 2BR week is priced around $35,000. The same week sells in the secondary market for $7,000 to $10,000. If you desperatly need staroptions, the 148,100 points week at Kierland sells for $19,000.
If you buy retail at Lagunamar foir $35,000, you TUG membership should be cancelled and all your posts in this forum deleted.
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I took the Westin Lagunamar tour in December and they were horrible. I could not even get a price quote from them. There is a price chart by the door and I snuck a peak. A Platinum 2BR week is priced around $35,000. The same week sells in the secondary market for $7,000 to $10,000. If you desperatly need staroptions, the 148,100 points week at Kierland sells for $19,000.
If you buy retail at Lagunamar foir $35,000, you TUG membership should be cancelled and all your posts in this forum deleted.
This was our experience on both of our presentations at Lagunamar. They won't even quote prices unless you are interested in buying. Why would I be interested in buying if I don't know how much it costs?
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Because even they know that what they are selling is way overpriced? :hysterical:
Why quote a price that will lead to your prospect walking?
The ONLY thing I would consider buying from the developer at this point would be an explorer package to use it to retro my remaining resale week and pick up an OCEANSIDE week. Those views are incredible! When we were there in December they wanted $72,000 for an oceanside week........I don't want it THAT bad!
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bogwarrior
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We are Kierland owners and have never had any difficultly booking Lagunamar - were there for Spring Break and going back for thanksgiving.....if you want Lagunamar, as all the replies have suggested, you would be crazy to buy anywhere other than resale.
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I bought a Lagunamar fixed Christmas week a few months ago for $7,000 and rented it quickly for $3500. Took that money and rented the week before it for $2500 because I'd already rented a Royal Caribbean for Christmas. Now we have 2 weeks in Cancun for the holidays! Star Options are great but not required for our purposes.