Ocean Pointe or Grand Vista

[Saintsfanfl]

It is worth noting that some of the public schools in Florida are off the entire Thanksgiving week. This may explain why Thanksgiving has more power than Memorial Day week. If a hurricane knocks out too many school days then there will be school part of that week but that is not the norm and it would be a short notice change.

 

[Ron98GT]

I would have posted the weeks used but I cannot access my spreadsheet right now. I will post on Monday. I did not use an average.

I think the MHB 1BR is odd as well. I just checked it to make sure and I get the same discount whether it is a 7/3/15 Platinum check-in or 5/9/15 Gold check-in. Does it mean they will be a tie on a request? Maybe, maybe not. Logically July should be higher but there are certainly plenty of people wanting to go to Branson in May and its not the same type of people that want to go in July. 2/28/15 Silver on the other hand is not even close and seems to be at the bottom of the barrel. This makes sense.

I know for almost all the units I used either Week 51/52, 7, 26/27, or 47. Initially I thought week 7 was better in places like MBP and MGV but weeks 51/52 were better by a sizable margin.

Also it is worth noting that the differences are not based on week to week but more of a range of weeks. Weeks 51/52 are probably an exception but in order to test the range one would have to test each week. I am not quite that motivated.

With this method one could also test the drop in trading power as it gets closer to check-in. I am convinced that trading power doesn't drop until at least 6 months prior to check-in.

Do you have all of the Marriott's in your spreadsheet, or just the ones mentioned in this thread? There are some other Marriott's that I'd like to compare to GV & Willow Ridge.

 

[Saintsfanfl]

Do you have all of the Marriott's in your spreadsheet, or just the ones mentioned in this thread? There are some other Marriott's that I'd like to compare to GV & Willow Ridge.

I only have access to those that I currently show as owning in my II account, which are Florida Club and WR. This list I posted is inclusive of what I own except I removed my non-Marriotts.

I would love to add more but I would need someone to be willing to run a cruise exchange test using the same cruise that I used. If too much time passes where other variables change I would have to start over.

Looking for volunteers that own something that is not in my list.