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Legacy Vacation Club Spa, Kissimmee, FL [moved]

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I am purchasing a timeshare at this resort because it offers RCI points. I am wondering if anyone can speak about this resort as to how nice is it?
 

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Thank you for your reply. First time posting a question. I am buying from resale market, purchasing RCI points. This is the resort attached to the points. I am receiving 2015 points with the purchase. :eek:
 

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How much are you paying?

How many points do you get every year?

How much is the maintenance fee?
 

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Nothing up front, we are getting 81,000 points annually. The maintenance fee is $773.00 per year.
 

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I owned at the Legacy of Resort World for 20 years. It is one of 3 or 4 Legacy resorts in Orlando. I can't speak specifically about how nice any of the Legacy resorts are but I can give you my view.

When I first purchased the Legacy resale 20 years ago I did so at an auction sight unseen. It was an II Gold and on par with Marriott. In fact I have traded for Marriott resorts early on in my ownership often trading my marriott for Marriott reward points while getting to my resort from the legacy trade. The MF fee was about 350 at the time as was the Marriott.

Maybe 12 years ago the management company changed to Celebrity and we lost the gold status at some point. It still traded well so I never paid it much mind and the management company kept the MF increases much lower compared to Marriott. Maybe 8 years ago Legacy management took over and moved to RCI and started with the point system. They started out wanting 5k for points and I believe the last offer was 3k. Given I paid 2k for my 2 br, week 30 red unit, I saw no reason to do it. I can trade RCI or II. I think the trade value in RCI was around 28.

The MF for my Marriott is now 1200 and the Legacy is now 660. My last four trades for my legacy were Marriott Aruba Surf 2 br in Sept 2013 a studio Christmas at Canyon Villas 2014, a one br at Marriott Aruba Ocean in April 2015 and a studio this Christmas at Ocean Pointe 2015.

So while I can't tell you how nice, I can tell you it still has a good trade value for the MF and Legacy is doing a much better job based on the trade value. I believe trade value and niceness are somewhat related.

I did give the resort away this year and I am in the process of closing now. The main reason is sticking with one brand so I picked up a second Marriott and in the hunt for a third. When I think about the Legacy week I do begin to get a little sellers remorse because it has served me very well. The person getting it will enjoy the value they will get from it.

Bottom line...not a Marriott but you made a good decision based on trade value.
 
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<snip> Maybe 12 years ago the management company changed to Celebrity and we lost the gold status at some point..........<snip>. Maybe 8 years ago Legacy management took over and moved to RCI and started with the point system. <snip>

Just to be clear, Celebrity Resorts was both the parent company and the management company of a number of timeshare properties in Florida, including yours. We owned a week at a different Celebrity Resorts facility in FL, but gave it away (for free) around 2008. We had paid next to nothing for it (resale) in the first place.

Celebrity Resorts declared bankruptcy around 2009 and then later "re-emerged" under the new name of Legacy Vacation Club. Same resorts, same corporate players, same "in-house management company", same company-controlled stooges on the HOA's --- just a new company name in the aftermath of bankruptcy. My guess is that relatively few owners ever even knew of the bankruptcy proceedings going on behind the scenes anyhow, since no Celebrity resorts closed down and no outlandish fees or special assessments were imposed before, during or after the bankruptcy proceedings.

Only after the aforementioned post-bankruptcy "reinvention" from Celebrity Resorts to Legacy Vacation Club did LVC begin to adopt and peddle RCI Points (...at several thousand dollars per "conversion", of course, to infuse some cash into LVC operations).

The bottom line is that a low cost Legacy Vacation Club week acquisition now, with RCI Points already attached, may not be a bad deal, whether or not the buyer actually wants anything at all to do with LVC or with the underlying "home" property. Since someone else has already (unwisely, IMnsHO) ponied up the $3-5k required to make that "conversion" to RCI Points, if the buyer is comfortable with the mf / points ratio it could actually be a pretty good score --- if (...and maybe only if) acquired for little or nothing in the first place.
 
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I sent my MF in very year and continued to use it as a trader. Never went to the resort nor did I have any idea the reasons for the changes. I was never assessed a fee, was never aware of a bankruptcy, my MF increases were low and I continued to get good trade value.

Now that I know the history of the management team, my opinion hasn't changed. I can only judge them based on what value I got from my trades and I continued to get good trade value with my fixed week. Have no clue about staying at the resort.
 
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