Maui Ocean Club - Views

[NJDave]

I was looking at the view categories at Maui Ocean Club (original towers) in the attached.

MOC and Sequel View Categories and Floor Plans

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The one bedroom Island view appear to be a good value. Island views are less points and appear to be better than the Garden view. I have found in my limited experience that the one bedroom Island views are more difficult to secure which may mean that the one bedroom Island views are more popular (and a better value) than the one bedroom Garden view.

Thoughts?

 

[GaryDouglas]

Here are the number of units by unit type: Link

 

[ljmiii]

The one bedroom Island view appear to be a good value...

Once you get above the low parking garage, the Napili tower Island villas have stunning views up the West Maui mountains - better than many of the old tower Ocean View views IMHO. That said (and as you point out) there are nowhere near as many of them as Garden View rooms.

 

[dlpearson]

We just stayed in a studio island view (room 5120 I think? 5th floor of the Lanai bldg.) a few weeks ago. Considering we were booked for a garden view, this was a nice surprise to get "upgraded". The view was actually quite decent. We were high enough (and far enough back) to not be blocked by the parking garage, with a view of the beautiful mountains, and had quite a nice view of water and the Lahaina pool to the right side.

 

[MOXJO7282]

We just stayed in a studio island view (room 5120 I think? 5th floor of the Lanai bldg.) a few weeks ago. Considering we were booked for a garden view, this was a nice surprise to get "upgraded". The view was actually quite decent. We were high enough (and far enough back) to not be blocked by the parking garage, with a view of the beautiful mountains, and had quite a nice view of water and the Lahaina pool to the right side.

There are definitely quite a few gardenview Lanai Tower units that have fairly nice oceanviews and fantastic mountainviews.

 

[normab]

This may be a rant...just warning you from jersey gal who is now retired in Florida. .

Wanted to give you a reality check if you are using points for a stay at the newer villas in February- March. We used beaucoup points to get an ocean view room in Lahaina/Napili towers. The whole purpose was to see whales...

We are chairman’s club, which usually gets us a middle to high floor. They only gave us a second floor room and defended it when we asked for a bit higher floor. The told us the best they could do was move us after 5 days. Really? Yes it’s high season, but if you really have weeks owners then the big checkout days are fri,sat and sun. We arrived on a Friday so we would have considered moving sat or sun. Who wants to repack to move after you’ve settled in for 5 nights???

Apparently you need to be a weeks owner or you get the second floor. That’s what we were told. We didn’t realize there were that many weeks owners at this part of the resort.

So that means all the renters who rented from owners get a better room location than a high ownership DC point trader. How does Marriott show their loyalty.....

Anyway,sorry for the rant. We had a great time watching whales from our room, so the second floor location worked well for that aspect. And the small beach is not crowded since they don’t provide chairs.

However, take away the whale watching aspect, and after a dozen trips to the islands, multiple weeks, we prefer ANY MVCI Hawaii resort over MOC. Waiohai and KBC are our favs, but ko Okina and the Pulse on big island were better overall for us. I may write a review that gives an honest and specific perspective of MOC.

Different strokes for different folks

have good time and I hope you get a high floor.

 

[mjm1]

Apparently you need to be a weeks owner or you get the second floor. That’s what we were told. We didn’t realize there were that many weeks owners at this part of the resort.

So that means all the renters who rented from owners get a better room location than a high ownership DC point trader. How does Marriott show their loyalty.....

We are owners there and that sounds reasonable to me. I believe all MVC resorts give priority to owners at that particular resort over those using DC points. And they don’t distinguish between owners, guests or renters as the priority is assigned to the owner regardless of how the unit is actually used. We have stayed there and at other resorts using DC points and adjust our expectations accordingly. This would be especially true during a busy time of year.

It sounds like you enjoyed the whale watching from your unit and hopefully the entire resort, as well as the location on the island. Glad to hear that.

Best regards.

Mike

 

[TXTortoise]

It doesn't make it any better, but given that there are only 21 OV rooms in Lahaina tower and none in Napili, the odds of getting one are pretty slim during prime winter and summer seasons.

Anything over 6th floor will clear the parking garage on the pool side of the tower. Owners, then DP is the priority at MOC, but still surprised about the assignment.

Second floor would have been mountain/garden view in Lahaina.

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[SueDonJ]

We are owners there and that sounds reasonable to me. I believe all MVC resorts give priority to owners at that particular resort over those using DC points. And they don’t distinguish between owners, guests or renters as the priority is assigned to the owner regardless of how the unit is actually used. We have stayed there and at other resorts using DC points and adjust our expectations accordingly. This would be especially true during a busy time of year.

It sounds like you enjoyed the whale watching from your unit and hopefully the entire resort, as well as the location on the island. Glad to hear that.

Best regards.

Mike

Sure it sounds reasonable BUT there's a wrinkle that often gets overlooked. Weeks at every resort have been permanently conveyed by Marriott to the Destination Club Trust (which fuels the sales engine for purchased DC Trust Points,) effectively making purchasers of DC Trust Points owners of a sort at each of the resorts in the portfolio. Shouldn't they be given the same or similar priority for unit placements, at least correlated to the number of Weeks conveyed at a particular resort?

I think so but I also understand why it doesn't happen. At the resort level the rooms controllers are not given enough information from corporate to know when Trust Members are using Trust Points to book inventory that's actually been conveyed to the Trust. We're not even sure that corporate could drill down that info for the individual resorts because with most inventory being made available/manipulated by Marriott through the DC Exchange Company, the majority of DC reservation confirmations indicate, "MVC EXCHANGE" despite the possibility that the inventory may have come into the Exchange Company from the Trust. There are only a very few that are booked direct from the Trust and are indicated as such on confirmations, so maybe Marriott could at least prioritize placement for those on par with Weeks Owners? I don't own Trust Points but I still think those owners aren't fairly treated when it comes to unit placements.

 

[TXTortoise]

I expect at some level one would think that for a given week, of the 21 available OV rooms there should a prorata share to be allocated for owners and the DP Trust. The number of owner units are reduced by those that have deposited their week into Interval or exchanged for Points. With the Point deposits being comingled with the Trust allocation?

While I expect an actual database to track this for all views at all resorts isn't that hard, albeit tedious, I seriously doubt Marriott could implement it successfully in realtime.

It does make one wonder how many units should really be available of the 21 for 9am EST reservations for each respective group.

 

[Dean]

This may be a rant...just warning you from jersey gal who is now retired in Florida. .

Wanted to give you a reality check if you are using points for a stay at the newer villas in February- March. We used beaucoup points to get an ocean view room in Lahaina/Napili towers. The whole purpose was to see whales...

We are chairman’s club, which usually gets us a middle to high floor. They only gave us a second floor room and defended it when we asked for a bit higher floor. The told us the best they could do was move us after 5 days. Really? Yes it’s high season, but if you really have weeks owners then the big checkout days are fri,sat and sun. We arrived on a Friday so we would have considered moving sat or sun. Who wants to repack to move after you’ve settled in for 5 nights???

Apparently you need to be a weeks owner or you get the second floor. That’s what we were told. We didn’t realize there were that many weeks owners at this part of the resort.

So that means all the renters who rented from owners get a better room location than a high ownership DC point trader. How does Marriott show their loyalty.....

Anyway,sorry for the rant. We had a great time watching whales from our room, so the second floor location worked well for that aspect. And the small beach is not crowded since they don’t provide chairs.

However, take away the whale watching aspect, and after a dozen trips to the islands, multiple weeks, we prefer ANY MVCI Hawaii resort over MOC. Waiohai and KBC are our favs, but ko Okina and the Pulse on big island were better overall for us. I may write a review that gives an honest and specific perspective of MOC.

Different strokes for different folks

have good time and I hope you get a high floor.

DP points are an exchange. Some resorts treat them exactly the same and some put them ahead of exchangers but just barely. Multiple weeks/units are given priority over singles. In part it depends on the % of people who are in that view type that are using their week that week. Status doesn't officially affect assignment but it can vary.

 

[hangloose]

Unless you have a fixed week / fixed villa...it is hard to estimate room location at Maui Ocean Club...whether a weeks owner, multi-week owner, DC Pts owner, or even an exchanger/renter. Room reservations has a hard job! Hoping they are using AI to help.

Honestly, we exchanged into MOC via II many times prior to owning. Majority of those exchanges...I've had better views than after being a weeks owner at MOC. Go figure. I think demand at MOC is just very high for all profiles above...and the availability is challenging given the introduction of DC Pts which allows single day reservations with check-in any day. They try to follow standard guidelines for priority...but even then...it's hard to match up individual desires to availability on any given day. We've learned to just manage our room placement expectations and instead just enjoy Maui and the resort!

Going back soon, so hoping for a good room placement!