Eric B
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- Joined
- Jun 10, 2017
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- Resorts Owned
- Vacation Village, Wyndham, WorldMark, Vistana, Vidanta, Flora Farms, HGVC Max, and some independents
My latest Williamsburg Plantation purchase has $17.5/TPU. Don’t know if it comes with extra certificate. If it does, then it will be $13/TPU. @Eric B thats about your values. I can’t bring myself to buy anything Massanutten.
If they don’t set it up with the extra vacation certificate, you can call the VV RCI 800 number and ask them to. You might need the offer number from someone else or off the certificate that the seller got when they bought.
As far as $/TPU goes, I’m quite happy with how it works for me with Massanutten - I get an extra 21-22 TPU boost generally good for 18 months or so for paying my Woodstone MF early, plus the extra vacation certificate that is good for a 180 day reservation, then I use the week itself to get 254K points in Wyndham for another $89 fee. I can make 7 upgrade-deposits into RCI of 35K each to get 63K Wyndham-RCI points, for a total of 450K - that will book a lot of weeks given the Wyndham-RCI exchange grid. It’s a form of TS-arbitrage, if you will, figuring out how to use the different “exchange rates” for a week in the various systems. My understanding is that once my WorldMark resale contract closes, I’ll be able to deposit the week there as two separate red 2 BR weeks for 16K WM credits and 2 housekeeping tokens, which I can then use there or deposit into II as good trading blue 2 BR weeks with 4K WM credits leftover, making my 4 BR LO Woodstone week useable for reserving Marriotts or back down into GL NV Punta. Flexibility has value to me beyond just the $/TPU, but Massanutten does quite well there, too.