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New owner question Grandview Las Vegas

You Typed A Mouthful.

vegasVIP said:
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You are correct, sir.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​
 
A 1 bdrm week 32 is worth 17 TPU's.

Grandview is one of many properties managed by Daily Management Resorts (DMR). Their system is kind of a hybrid mini-system. You cannot exchange to other properties internally thu DMR. You have to belong to RCI and make your exchanges just as you would to any other RCI properties. When you go to book the exchange, the fee will be a reduced fee of $139, instead of the usual $199.

If you choose to join RCI, you can deposit your week and get 17 TPU's. You can then use that to exchange back into Grandview for about 8 TPU's for a 1 bdrm or 12 TPU's for a 2 bdrm (or less in many cases). So, if you really like Vegas, you can get 2 weeks at Grandview for the 1 week you own. Factor in all the RCI fees and getting that 2nd week will cost you less than $350.

You'll also have access to getaway weeks where you just pay a fee for the exchange. You're really not exchanging anything, just renting a week. For Vegas, Orlando and other overbuilt places, those rentals can be often be had for under $350 as well.

While RCI might cost you something more, it would allow you to stretch your ownership into more vacation time and lower your avarage cost per week significantly.
 
I forgot to mention that you can set up an account at Daily Management for the week you own. You can then pay maintanance fees and request to either reserve or deposit your week thru the site. You'll need your full contract number to set up that account.
 
All really good information, thank you! We also had the two extra weeks that came with the purchase which I guess you can use for the extra vacations (can only search 45 days or less out) which I think will make it a little cheaper also.
 
vckempson said:
A 1 bdrm week 32 is worth 17 TPU's.

Grandview is one of many properties managed by Daily Management Resorts (DMR). Their system is kind of a hybrid mini-system. You cannot exchange to other properties internally thu DMR. You have to belong to RCI and make your exchanges just as you would to any other RCI properties. When you go to book the exchange, the fee will be a reduced fee of $139, instead of the usual $199.

If you choose to join RCI, you can deposit your week and get 17 TPU's. You can then use that to exchange back into Grandview for about 8 TPU's for a 1 bdrm or 12 TPU's for a 2 bdrm (or less in many cases). So, if you really like Vegas, you can get 2 weeks at Grandview for the 1 week you own. Factor in all the RCI fees and getting that 2nd week will cost you less than $350.

You'll also have access to getaway weeks where you just pay a fee for the exchange. You're really not exchanging anything, just renting a week. For Vegas, Orlando and other overbuilt places, those rentals can be often be had for under $350 as well.

While RCI might cost you something more, it would allow you to stretch your ownership into more vacation time and lower your avarage cost per week significantly.
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What about Vacation Village resorts as GV appears to be part of this community as well, not just Daily Management...
 
I'm not sure I understand the question. All The Vacation Village resorts are a part of the Daily Management Resorts properties plus many more. There is no internal trading within any of these. Any and all discounted trades must take place within RCI. Does that answer your question?
 
Guess i am confused because when you go to daily management website they only list 17 or so resorts, but go to vacation village website and its a much larger listing but i guess its the affiliates of VV that you can see on that site that you cannot on daily management site
 
Smokatoke said:
Guess i am confused because when you go to daily management website they only list 17 or so resorts, but go to vacation village website and its a much larger listing but i guess its the affiliates of VV that you can see on that site that you cannot on daily management site
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Wow! Learn something new every day. I didn't know they had different lists. I did a quick test, putting on hold Driftwood Resorts. It's listed on the Vacation Village site but not the Daily Management site. It came through with a lower exchange fee.

I'd conclude then that the reduced exchange fee is applied to all the resorts listed on the Vacation Village site. I'll have to get familiar with them to take advantage of a wider selection. Thanks for pointing that out to me. It's worth noting that not all of those resorts are the greatest. It would still be worth another $60 if there's something much nicer nearby.
 
vckempson said:
Wow! Learn something new every day. I didn't know they had different lists. I did a quick test, putting on hold Driftwood Resorts. It's listed on the Vacation Village site but not the Daily Management site. It came through with a lower exchange fee.

I'd conclude then that the reduced exchange fee is applied to all the resorts listed on the Vacation Village site. I'll have to get familiar with them to take advantage of a wider selection. Thanks for pointing that out to me. It's worth noting that not all of those resorts are the greatest. It would still be worth another $60 if there's something much nicer nearby.
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What I dont understand is why cant I see all of these resorts in the Home Group search? I can only see the 17 "daily management" resorts???

Also strangely I swear when messing around with searches last night on a Lake Tahoe property that is Vacation Village the exchange fee was $149, but now when I look today its $199, the same for a Palm Springs VV resort... Thoughts? I am going to call the VV# for points reservations because the link provided says its $139 when booking via Internal Exchange.
 
What do you mean by Home Group search? Maybe there's something else I'm not familiar with.

Do you own at any additional resorts that aren't tied to Vacation Village? To get the discounted fee, you have to use a Vacation Village or Daily Management deposit for the exchange to get the lower fee. Not sure if that's the case for you but I'll explain just in case.

So for example. You own the following.

Westgate worth 45 TPU's
Vacation Village at Parkway worth 25 TPU's

So if you look to make an exchange into Grandview Las Vegas for 18 TPU's, you can book it with the VV@P for $139 and get 7 TPU's change.

On the other hand, you try to book the Lake Tahoe property for 29 TPU's, you only have the Westgate deposit that will cover it and for that it's $199 and you'll get 16 TPU's in change.
 
vckempson said:
What do you mean by Home Group search? Maybe there's something else I'm not familiar with.

Do you own at any additional resorts that aren't tied to Vacation Village? To get the discounted fee, you have to use a Vacation Village or Daily Management deposit for the exchange to get the lower fee. Not sure if that's the case for you but I'll explain just in case.

So for example. You own the following.

Westgate worth 45 TPU's
Vacation Village at Parkway worth 25 TPU's

So if you look to make an exchange into Grandview Las Vegas for 18 TPU's, you can book it with the VV@P for $139 and get 7 TPU's change.

On the other hand, you try to book the Lake Tahoe property for 29 TPU's, you only have the Westgate deposit that will cover it and for that it's $199 and you'll get 16 TPU's in change.
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Points system is different than Weeks in terms of reservations. Booking your home week can be done 13-12 months out, and then there are windows for booking at your resort in general, and then within the Home Group of resorts your management company runs. Within RCI there is a search function that specifically looks at only "Home Resort/Groups" since you are supposed to get better trade priority and lower exhange fees. For whatever reason it seems like that function is only showing me Daily Management resorts and not all of the Vacation Village resorts as well.
 
Don't much care for Daily Management Resorts company

vckempson said:
I'm not sure I understand the question. All The Vacation Village resorts are a part of the Daily Management Resorts properties plus many more. There is no internal trading within any of these. Any and all discounted trades must take place within RCI. Does that answer your question?
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Before DMR, my Timeshare was with Aqua Sun and we could make changes to any other 'internal' resort (within AS) for NO CHARGE!

Just found out myself that it's all changed now... I called to swap into Grandview (from mine in Orlando) and was told I had to deposit it and then go through RCI and PAY to exchange! Didn't have to do that 10 years ago (last time I wanted to stay at an 'internal' one - I usually rent it or trade to 'outside the network' ones through RCI).

My question is this:
When DMR took over, were any of us NOTIFIED that they were going to have to PAY to exchange now?

Secondly:
What the heck is DMR doing FOR us? Seems the individual resorts could handle everything they are doing (and mostly do already!).
 
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