Marriott Los Suenos Costa Rica

[joulate]

Hello All

I am new in TUG. I have a 2 BDR Unit in Marriott Los Suenos Costa Rica in the Silver season. Every time I go into a sales presentation they try to sell me another week and tell that I would have a very good traiding power since Los Suenos is a very high demand resort, but my silver season does not have a very high TDI in II so I am wondering if that is true? Or II still goes by the TDI of my week and would only match the requests I make with another exchange with similar TDI?

Thanks.

Jose

 

[claraj]

@joulate I don't think you need to necessarily match the TDI. My week is also a silver season and though I have not used it for many trades yet, I was able to see a 2BR in Orlando (Marriott Grande Vista) for week 52 (the highest TDI week) using my 2BR. I think if I split the week, I may not be able to see it with a 1BR or studio. Granted Orlando has many resorts and so it might be easier to trade into. I believe it may not trade into a 2BR in Hawaii as well.

 

[Hindsite]

Anytime you go to a sales meeting they are going to make stuff up to try and get you to buy something so ignore what they say and find out for yourself.

II use a number of parameters to generate trading power for weeks deposited, one of which is TDI, others are unit size, location, resort quality and overall supply and demand. The same applies to the weeks that you want to exchange into. While you don't have the best Trading power possible, you will have decent trading power so as long as you request early and are realistic about what you request, you should do very well.

If you want a 2-bed in Hawaii at peak time, you may struggle, but it is possible. The trading power requirements of where and when you want to trade into are as important as the trading power of your deposited week.

 

[ljmiii]

I am new in TUG. I have a 2 BDR Unit in Marriott Los Suenos Costa Rica in the Silver season. Every time I go into a sales presentation they try to sell me another week and tell that I would have a very good traiding power since Los Suenos is a very high demand resort, but my silver season does not have a very high TDI in II so I am wondering if that is true? Or II still goes by the TDI of my week and would only match the requests I make with another exchange with similar TDI?

First...Congratulations! Many of us here long to visit Los Suenos and struggle finding availability using points.

Second, the TDI of your week only tells you its trading power relative to other weeks at your resort NOT compared to weeks at other resorts. The II algorithm is somewhat cryptic but experience leads me to believe that the lowest TDI week at Maui Ocean Club will trade better than the highest TDI week at Vistana Villages in Orlando. I would expect the trading power of a week at Los Suenos is closer to MOC than Vistana Villages.

 

[davidvel]

Anytime you go to a sales meeting they are going to make stuff up to try and get you to buy something so ignore what they say and find out for yourself.

II use a number of parameters to generate trading power for weeks deposited, one of which is TDI, others are unit size, location, resort quality and overall supply and demand. The same applies to the weeks that you want to exchange into. While you don't have the best Trading power possible, you will have decent trading power so as long as you request early and are realistic about what you request, you should do very well.

If you want a 2-bed in Hawaii at peak time, you may struggle, but it is possible. The trading power requirements of where and when you want to trade into are as important as the trading power of your deposited week.

I think this is a bit backwards. II has all the trading data. They know the supply and demand of every week in their system. They can perfectly gauge trading power real time for each and every interval. They don't need to know what is causing this supply/demand for a particular interval, it is what it is.

TDI is a result of this data, not the reverse.

 

[Hindsite]

I think this is a bit backwards. II has all the trading data. They know the supply and demand of every week in their system. They can perfectly gauge trading power real time for each and every interval. They don't need to know what is causing this supply/demand for a particular interval, it is what it is.

TDI is a result of this data, not the reverse.

It may simply be that we think about the same issue from different angles. To me TDI tables are fixed years in advance so don't reflect either event or behaviour driven changes, so they have other factors that can account for that.

Trading power works across regions whereas TDI is region specific. e.g TDI 150 in Orlando or Williamsburg has a lower TP than TDI 150 in Hawaii, for a given resort quality and unit size. We see this most obviously with exchanges into DVC Orlando, where MVC Hawaii Studios can see DVC Orlando 2-beds, but the equivalent unit size and resort quality in Williamsburg can't.

However you think of it is fine, the key is to know what is realistic given your deposit and what you want to exchange into.

 

[JohnnyO]

Have you considered a private exchange? Several of us have some good access to nice resorts and my be interested in a week in CR.

 

[joulate]

Thanks all for the information. I deposited the unit in II and placed an on going search for some resorts during peak season, I will see how it goes. Thanks.

 

[joulate]

Have you considered a private exchange? Several of us have some good access to nice resorts and my be interested in a week in CR.

That sounds like a good option also. I still have the 1BR for the silver season since I only deposited the Studio, there is lock-off feature on this resort. So for this I would just normally post my available week into the forums? Thanks.

 

[dioxide45]

That sounds like a good option also. I still have the 1BR for the silver season since I only deposited the Studio, there is lock-off feature on this resort. So for this I would just normally post my available week into the forums? Thanks.

There is a section of the TUG Marketplace to list direct exchanges. You wouldn't post it in the forums or it would be removed.

 

[WorldT]

That sounds like a good option also. I still have the 1BR for the silver season since I only deposited the Studio, there is lock-off feature on this resort. So for this I would just normally post my available week into the forums? Thanks.

Here is a link to the TUG marketplace. You will have to be a paid member to post.

https://tug2.com/timesharemarketplace/search?area=8&forsale=true

 

[claraj]

I wonder if there are any DVC owners who would like to go to Costa Rica for a week!