cgartly
TUG Member
We attended an “owners update” today @ Cabo Azul, probably the first time they haven’t tried the high pressure scare tactic approach and it did get me interested…..
The only two places we go to are Cancun Resort & Cabo Azul.
What was offered as a minimum buy in is 2000 points @ 7.38/pt less a discount of $2952 for a total of $11,808 + closing costs of $453.28. Maintenance fees on the 2000 points are $330 a year.
The 18600 EOY points we own with Monarch still occur the same maintenance fee’s of $1800’ish per year.
It was explained that the maintenance fee’s for the monarch points would remain the same after the conversion and that all points could be used together to book @ Azul 13 months in advance.
Downside seems to be the addition of the $329 HGV Max club fee….
I was surprised that open season had Azul with decent availability at fairly low cost and also had Cancun for about $147 usd per week for a 1 br unit. It was stated there were no resort fee’s when booking open season.
My primary reason for even considering the additional point purchase is increased availability at Cabo Azul being as though Monarch owns so little inventory here and also the access to open season.
My concern with proceeding is both the cost of purchase of course but also we do like to go to Cancun regularly and I’m not sure if I would still have access to the monarch inventory (80+%) or only the HGV inventory.
I also really like this group and what monarch has given us over the years despite some of the changes and feel like I’m weakening the monarch group by converting.
That’s where some of the confusion comes in, am I really converting? Or just buying 2000 points in the Azul collection and retaining everything associated with the 9300 points per year in the Monarch collection or whatever it is called.
Any thoughts or insight from everyone would be greatly appreciated.
The only two places we go to are Cancun Resort & Cabo Azul.
What was offered as a minimum buy in is 2000 points @ 7.38/pt less a discount of $2952 for a total of $11,808 + closing costs of $453.28. Maintenance fees on the 2000 points are $330 a year.
The 18600 EOY points we own with Monarch still occur the same maintenance fee’s of $1800’ish per year.
It was explained that the maintenance fee’s for the monarch points would remain the same after the conversion and that all points could be used together to book @ Azul 13 months in advance.
Downside seems to be the addition of the $329 HGV Max club fee….
I was surprised that open season had Azul with decent availability at fairly low cost and also had Cancun for about $147 usd per week for a 1 br unit. It was stated there were no resort fee’s when booking open season.
My primary reason for even considering the additional point purchase is increased availability at Cabo Azul being as though Monarch owns so little inventory here and also the access to open season.
My concern with proceeding is both the cost of purchase of course but also we do like to go to Cancun regularly and I’m not sure if I would still have access to the monarch inventory (80+%) or only the HGV inventory.
I also really like this group and what monarch has given us over the years despite some of the changes and feel like I’m weakening the monarch group by converting.
That’s where some of the confusion comes in, am I really converting? Or just buying 2000 points in the Azul collection and retaining everything associated with the 9300 points per year in the Monarch collection or whatever it is called.
Any thoughts or insight from everyone would be greatly appreciated.