nodge
TUG Member
Hey Starwood Tuggers,
I was hanging around the Sheraton Desert Oasis’ (a Starwood voluntary resort) last week using the for-fee WiFi in the lobby and stumbled onto a document titled: “2006-C Supplement to Sheraton Desert Oasis Owner Information,” Version R-14, dated Sept. 6, 2006. Page One says “Owner Information Pages 240 through 261 (the Starwood Vacation Exchange Company Disclosure Guide for Members of the Starwood Vacation Network (R-12)) are deleted in their entirety and replaced with the attached Starwood Vacation Exchange Company Disclosure Guide for Members of the Starwood Vacation Network (R-14).”
Section III (“Membership in SVN”) of this document includes the familiar terms that make SDO a voluntary resort. Namely, “[m]embership in SVN automatically terminates if the SVN Member voluntarily or involuntarily transfers the SVN Member’s VOI [“Vacation Ownership Interest”] and owns no other VOI, or if the SVN Member’s VOI ceases to be an SVN Resort. SVN Membership is not transferable.”
The most interesting thing in this document is its file name. It is printed at the bottom of each page as follows:
F:\SVEC\Registrations\Docs\GUIDE R-14 (9-6-06 – CAS LKS LST PGA WMH SMV SDO SBP CAN POR BV AR).doc
It would appear that this Document R-14, which includes the SVN voluntary resort language, applies to all of the resorts listed after “9-6-06” in the file name. If so, the file name serves as a list of SVN’s voluntary resorts and here they are:
Starwood Voluntary Resorts in SVN
CAS – Sheraton Vistana Resort – Cascades Section
LKS – Sheraton Vistana Resort – Lakes Section
LST - Sheraton Lakeside Terrace
PGA – Sheraton PGA Vacation Resort
WMH – Westin Mission Hills
SMV – Sheraton Mountain Vista
SDO – Sheraton Desert Oasis
SBP – Sheraton Broadway Plantation
CAN – Westin Lagunamar (Cancun)
POR – Princeville Ocean Resort (Kauai)
BV – Westin St. John – Bay Vista Section
AR – “Amelia Resort” (listed as being located at Vistana Village’s address with an “estimated completion date for Phase 1 [of] June, 2007.”
Starwood Mandatory Resorts in SVN
By elimination, the following remaining resorts identified as SVN resorts in Document R-14 must be “mandatory” resorts that are not subject to SVN Document R-14’s “voluntary” membership provisions:
Vistana Villages – Original “Bella” Phase
Vistana Villages - Key West Phase
Westin St. John – Original Phase referred to in Document R-14 simply as “Westin St. John.”
Harborside Resort Phases I and II
Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resort Villas
Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resort Villas North
Westin Kierland Villas
Interestingly, Harborside Resort Phase III is not listed in the list of SVN resorts provided in this document and I’ve never heard of “Amelia Resort” purportedly located at 12401 International Drive, Orlando, Florida 32821 (Vistana Villages’ address). Can anyone shed some light on this?
Since I’m assuming this list based solely on the file name of the document, I could be wrong. Does anyone have any info to challenge these designations for any particular resort?
-“Gumshoe” Nodge
I was hanging around the Sheraton Desert Oasis’ (a Starwood voluntary resort) last week using the for-fee WiFi in the lobby and stumbled onto a document titled: “2006-C Supplement to Sheraton Desert Oasis Owner Information,” Version R-14, dated Sept. 6, 2006. Page One says “Owner Information Pages 240 through 261 (the Starwood Vacation Exchange Company Disclosure Guide for Members of the Starwood Vacation Network (R-12)) are deleted in their entirety and replaced with the attached Starwood Vacation Exchange Company Disclosure Guide for Members of the Starwood Vacation Network (R-14).”
Section III (“Membership in SVN”) of this document includes the familiar terms that make SDO a voluntary resort. Namely, “[m]embership in SVN automatically terminates if the SVN Member voluntarily or involuntarily transfers the SVN Member’s VOI [“Vacation Ownership Interest”] and owns no other VOI, or if the SVN Member’s VOI ceases to be an SVN Resort. SVN Membership is not transferable.”
The most interesting thing in this document is its file name. It is printed at the bottom of each page as follows:
F:\SVEC\Registrations\Docs\GUIDE R-14 (9-6-06 – CAS LKS LST PGA WMH SMV SDO SBP CAN POR BV AR).doc
It would appear that this Document R-14, which includes the SVN voluntary resort language, applies to all of the resorts listed after “9-6-06” in the file name. If so, the file name serves as a list of SVN’s voluntary resorts and here they are:
Starwood Voluntary Resorts in SVN
CAS – Sheraton Vistana Resort – Cascades Section
LKS – Sheraton Vistana Resort – Lakes Section
LST - Sheraton Lakeside Terrace
PGA – Sheraton PGA Vacation Resort
WMH – Westin Mission Hills
SMV – Sheraton Mountain Vista
SDO – Sheraton Desert Oasis
SBP – Sheraton Broadway Plantation
CAN – Westin Lagunamar (Cancun)
POR – Princeville Ocean Resort (Kauai)
BV – Westin St. John – Bay Vista Section
AR – “Amelia Resort” (listed as being located at Vistana Village’s address with an “estimated completion date for Phase 1 [of] June, 2007.”
Starwood Mandatory Resorts in SVN
By elimination, the following remaining resorts identified as SVN resorts in Document R-14 must be “mandatory” resorts that are not subject to SVN Document R-14’s “voluntary” membership provisions:
Vistana Villages – Original “Bella” Phase
Vistana Villages - Key West Phase
Westin St. John – Original Phase referred to in Document R-14 simply as “Westin St. John.”
Harborside Resort Phases I and II
Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resort Villas
Westin Kaanapali Ocean Resort Villas North
Westin Kierland Villas
Interestingly, Harborside Resort Phase III is not listed in the list of SVN resorts provided in this document and I’ve never heard of “Amelia Resort” purportedly located at 12401 International Drive, Orlando, Florida 32821 (Vistana Villages’ address). Can anyone shed some light on this?
Since I’m assuming this list based solely on the file name of the document, I could be wrong. Does anyone have any info to challenge these designations for any particular resort?
-“Gumshoe” Nodge
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