Surfer Dude
newbie
My family of 6 travel 1 to 3 times a year, and each trip last for about 1 to 3 weeks. We prefer to stay in condos rather than hotels, and we've been using vbro, skyauction, priceline, hotel.com, etc. For our most recent trip during X-mas, we had the pleasure to stay at Wyndham Waikiki Beach Walk and it was NICE. Now I am wondering if owning a timeshare like Wyndham is the way for us to handle our travel accommodation needs.
We attended the Wyndham presentation but we did not buy because I do not like to make big investment after just hearing a 90 min presentation. Unfortunately, these sales folks did not let us keep any of the sales material to review at home.
Here're a few basic questions I hope some of you can answer?
1. Are Wyndham resorts readily available or do you have to make reservations months in advance? We normally plan our trip 2 to 8 weeks in advance.
2. Is it easy to make reservations through exchanges, like RCI, or is that one of those deals where I would have to plan way ahead of time.
3. For RCI, are the rentals for weekly only, or can I rent for 5 or 10 days starting from any day of the week.
4. What about international travel, like to Europe. Are Wyndham points useful for getting accommodations abroad?
5. I like the free upgrades and discounted points of the platinum status. Is there any way to get this status other than buying points directly from Wyndham?
Anyway, I am trying to understand how Wyndham timeshare works to decide if it is the right thing for me.
Thanks for any help.
We attended the Wyndham presentation but we did not buy because I do not like to make big investment after just hearing a 90 min presentation. Unfortunately, these sales folks did not let us keep any of the sales material to review at home.
Here're a few basic questions I hope some of you can answer?
1. Are Wyndham resorts readily available or do you have to make reservations months in advance? We normally plan our trip 2 to 8 weeks in advance.
2. Is it easy to make reservations through exchanges, like RCI, or is that one of those deals where I would have to plan way ahead of time.
3. For RCI, are the rentals for weekly only, or can I rent for 5 or 10 days starting from any day of the week.
4. What about international travel, like to Europe. Are Wyndham points useful for getting accommodations abroad?
5. I like the free upgrades and discounted points of the platinum status. Is there any way to get this status other than buying points directly from Wyndham?
Anyway, I am trying to understand how Wyndham timeshare works to decide if it is the right thing for me.
Thanks for any help.