Margaritaville VIP Founder vs PR

[Kj3welp]

We are Margaritaville VIP Founder. During a presentation they offered us PR based on no maintenance fees using bonus points etc. It’s the same price of MF for 18 years. It would benefit our kids but not us. I’m trying ti figure out what is the advantage of PR vs our Margaritaville ViP Founder level.

 

[Floridaman76]

"same price for MF for 18 years" is a lie. there's no way they would put that in writing

 

[Jan M.]

Typical sales b.s

Unless something changed, doing an equity trade to move to PR requires a new purchase of iirc 226,000 points. I don't know what PR/designated points are currently selling for but it's more per thousand points than CWS or CWA points.

The maintenance fees for PR/designated points are around .30-.50 more per thousand points than standard points. Additionally the 2026 program fee for the first million PR/designated points is $0.85 per thousand points vs $0.77 for standard developer points.

Being a PR owner gives you access to the PR inventory, 75% of the available inventory that's held for PR owner until 30 days out. Also if you're staying in a PR unit the resorts have a special benefit. At a very few resorts it's a decent benefit but it's nothing even close to impressive at most resorts.

 

[Floridaman76]

There's only a handful of PR resorts. Look at this list of resorts, and ask yourself "do I want to vacation there regularly?". Then ask yourself, "do I need to book these resorts for the dates I want very far into the future?"

I know what my answer would be.. But to each their own. Being PR gets you no other VIP Privlages at non-PR resorts. and if you are already founders VIP... you see where i'm going with this.

The "maintenance fees frozen" is a pretty brazen lie, so take that off the table