Interval Membership???

[JMSH]

Currently at Grande Vista, people tell me to exchange that Interval membership is no longer required, you can do all exchanges direct through Marriott……am I miss something?

 

[dioxide45]

Currently at Grande Vista, people tell me to exchange that Interval membership is no longer required, you can do all exchanges direct through Marriott……am I miss something?

Interval International membership isn't required if you want to go to your home resort year after year. Or if you want to use Abound Club Points. However Abound eligible weeks come with a free II account. If you want to exchange weeks, an II account is required to exchange in. Perhaps these people are using Club Points for everything?

 

[claraj]

@JMSH Sales people? I was told something similar that I shouldn't have been able to exchange back to Marriott via II by sales people in Costa Rica. It was not true.

 

[Dean]

Currently at Grande Vista, people tell me to exchange that Interval membership is no longer required, you can do all exchanges direct through Marriott……am I miss something?

Run away from sales and do not purchase. If you have bought anything already, cancel until you are certain of the ins and outs and what's best for you.

 

[JMSH]

Yeah, have not bought anything new. Have been a Grand Vista owner for 20 years. This info came from a sales person that called while we are currently at resort.

 

[dioxide45]

Yeah, have not bought anything new. Have been a Grand Vista owner for 20 years. This info came from a sales person that called while we are currently at resort.

Then all they are referring to is the ability to use Abound Club Points to make reservations directly with Marriott to other Marriott properties without using II. You can certainly continue to use II but isn't required.

 

[tschwa2]

Florida club would also do it (to other florida club resorts) but since it was sales talking and they aren't selling deeded weeks, that isn't what they meant.

 

[JMSH]

We have a deeded week and have never or yet to convert to points and don’t believe we will.

 

[Hindsite]

We have a deeded week and have never or yet to convert to points and don’t believe we will.

Sales lied to you to try and get you to think that using II isn't a great way to use weeks ownership or that it will go away sometime soon. If you tell them that you do really well with II so don't need to buy points, that's one of their replies and has been for 20 years for us. "Marriott are going to starve II of inventory" is one of the lines, they clearly don't read the inventor presentations where MVW set out the value proposition for II or the MVC weeks info that states the II is used as the MVC to MVC internal weeks exchange platform, hence the preference period.

Over time, will potential weeks inventory reduce? Possibly, as more US weeks get returned to MVC and they go into the Trust, but at the current rate my guess is that it will be another 20 years before I notice a difference, and that will see me out.

 

[AlmostRetired]

We have a deeded week and have never or yet to convert to points and don’t believe we will.

It is unclear to me if you enrolled you week but never exchanged for points or never enrolled your week. . If you enrolled your week into the points program, nothing has changed, stop reading.

If you have not, you may want to consider it, as long as you use II and trade for other Marriott's, even if you will never use the points program. An II account is $99. I think the II exchange fee for a Marriott exchanges are 189. If you lock off, and trade it doubles. If you use eplus to re-trade, you save on the 89 fee. The savings by enrolling your week and paying the club dues will be worth it. You can enroll your week for free. You also have the ability to rent points which could a big advantage depending on a host of factors.