Not sure what your browser is, or what your settings are, but default behavior is not to erase all cookies on shut down. You can even shut down your computer and they will stay. There is a setting in Chrome at least that allows to clear cookies on shutdown, but it is not commonly used. In any case, most (all should) sites that use 2FA should clear your login session (not necessarily all clear the actual cookie) upon timeout anyway.
These cached credentials are different from regular cookies and go away once a browser is recycled.
Same thing just happened to me. Was on the new "improved site" for the first time. I booked one stay, then proceeded to try to book another--not unusual for me to do for the past 10 years. Mid-way into the process of adding all the information, this Red BOT message pops up saying its monitoring the reservation for "suspicious activity"- I chose to release the reservation rather than risk it taking my points and I get nothing. Welcome to the newest version of MVC Hell. If there is somewhere to lodge a complaint, please advise.
They are but Marriott Vacations also announced in their 4th quarter 2025 earnings call that they are pulling back significantly in Asia Pacific. We don't really know exactly what that means but they expect sales there to slow by about 30%.
Yes, and Asia Pacific isn't a broad area for MVC, it's really just Nusa Dua (Indonesia) and Thailand. And I think there's a resort in Australia that they may lump into Asia Pacific. So if they're pulling back significantly there, it makes me think they might sell/walk away from the Thailand project. How else would they cut 30% off of their A/P sales? They were just crowing about it a few months ago so it would be strange to have them abandon it, but they are under pressure.
I just returned from there and they are very far along with 5 new buildings that will include 60+ 2BR villas. Also a couple of new restaurants and an additional pool. Expected completion late 2026 or early 2027. They are just now beginning to upgrade the existing 2BR villas located in 4 JW Buildings to have full kitchens + washer dryers. When done later this year that will be an additional 50+ 2BR villas. Might be hard for them to walk away from this. Time will tell.
Thanks, I was pretty sure they were well into construction. But if they’re forecasting their Asia Pacific sales to drop by 30%, that seems to say that they’re going to stop selling… something. Don’t know what it would be then. I guess we will find out in time.
I'm not sure how MVC is developeing these, but I suspect it is another developer building them. Marriott would consider this asset their asset light strategy. As they need units to sell they buy them from the developer. They did something similar with the newest tower at Crystal Shores. I beleive now that entire tower is in the points trust. Until those units were all conveyed to the trust, they would rent them on Marriott.com and other outlets and share rental revenue with the developer. Perhaps they will do something similar with these new units in Thailand. We'll see if we learn more about what is up with their AP strategy in throughout the year.
