I asked awhile ago for any recent experience, at which time no words of advice ensued, but since Carolinian is back in town: we have an RCI exchange coming up late spring/early summer into this Nags Head ts, a 2-BR direct-ocean front. We stopped by last year during an exchange into Golden Strand and took a quick look, all looked decent, except the beach not as quite beautiful because not a lot of natural growth on the bull-dozed dune. But of course, it's the same stunning Atlantic Ocean from the balcony. There are now a few good reviews on tripadvisor at least; when I first confirmed there was hardly anything online.
This is likely our very last RCI trade, as I've been using up all those TPU's from a bunch of very fabulous but cancelled European, Caribbean, & western US trades I had amassed during covid years, and I'm *still* not flying (when I do, I'll start with direct flights only -- no long airport connection times, delays, yada yada ... most folks I know still coming down with covid are recent flyers). So I was glad to get some good FL and NC coastal drive-to exchanges. Probably not renewing RCI tho we still own 2 timeshares; hoping our last RCI week after 26 years of membership will be a fond farewell.
This is likely our very last RCI trade, as I've been using up all those TPU's from a bunch of very fabulous but cancelled European, Caribbean, & western US trades I had amassed during covid years, and I'm *still* not flying (when I do, I'll start with direct flights only -- no long airport connection times, delays, yada yada ... most folks I know still coming down with covid are recent flyers). So I was glad to get some good FL and NC coastal drive-to exchanges. Probably not renewing RCI tho we still own 2 timeshares; hoping our last RCI week after 26 years of membership will be a fond farewell.