• Welcome to the FREE TUGBBS forums! The absolute best place for owners to get help and advice about their timeshares for more than 32 years!

    Join Tens of Thousands of other owners just like you here to get any and all Timeshare questions answered 24 hours a day!
  • TUG started 32 years ago in October 1993 as a group of regular Timeshare owners just like you!

    Read about our 32nd anniversary: Happy 32nd Birthday TUG!
  • TUG has a YouTube Channel to produce weekly short informative videos on popular Timeshare topics!

    All subscribers auto-entered to win all free TUG membership giveaways!

    Visit TUG on Youtube!
  • TUG has now saved timeshare owners more than $24,000,000 dollars just by finding us in time to rescind a new Timeshare purchase! A truly incredible milestone!

    Read more here: TUG saves owners more than $24 Million dollars
  • Sign up to get the TUG Newsletter for free!

    Tens of thousands of subscribing owners! A weekly recap of the best Timeshare resort reviews and the most popular topics discussed by owners!
  • Our official "end my sales presentation early" T-shirts are available again! Also come with the option for a free membership extension with purchase to offset the cost!

    All T-shirt options here!
  • A few of the most common links here on the forums for newbies and guests!

Marriott - View from the Balcony

^^ I’ll be there in February…your pics give me something to look forward to.
 
Fasttr said:
^^ I’ll be there in February…your pics give me something to look forward to.
Click to expand...
Ask for a room in the Iris building or any one other than Lily. The units in Lily are nice, but adjacent to a local public beach and subject to loud music on the weekends.
 
Lakeshore said:
Have a wonderful time! I have a question…is this possible to trade into with a Marriott resort exchange?
Click to expand...
None of the Ritz Carlton properties are in II; outside of cash stays there are 3 main ways you can book those properties:

1) Own a Ritz Carlton fractional. You own at a specific resort and have as few as 3 or as many as 13 weeks a year that usually rotate. In addition, they have an internal exchange system only for RC fractional owners to get into either different resorts or possibly different weeks at your home resort from what you are assigned for that year.

2) You can book using Marriott Abound Club Points. Some of the properties have quite a bit of inventory owned by the Abound trust, some have very little, if any. In addition, many owners have the option to deposit weeks into Abound for the year in exchange for Club Points. Owner deposits are much harder to find than trust-owned inventory, as they can typically get much better value renting out their weeks for cash or by exchanging for stays at other luxury properties via option 3, including high-end vacation homes or other premium fractional properties.

3) Outside of 1 and 2, for exchanges my understanding is these properties are only accessible via ThirdHome.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top