Powhatan Resort Fees for Exchangers

[Miss Marty]

Resort Fees: Resort amenities fee is $15.00 U.S. dollars.
Cash or Credit is accepted. Per day/per unit + 11% tax.

The Historic Powhatan Resort (#1046)
3601 Ironbound Rd. Williamsburg, VA. 23188
Resort Telephone Number: 757/220-1200

Anyone exchanged into Powhatan via RCI
recently and paid the following listed fees?
What was included?

 

[tschwa2]

A lot of it is things they used to have a la carte fees which were annoying enough as most other Williamsburg resorts included these types of amenities with no charge. As annoying as the pay if you use fees were, it is even worse now as it is pay whether you use or not. Per Diamond Fact Sheet: Resort Fee includes WiFi, business center, indoor pool, racquetball, tennis, and boarding pass printing.
$10-25 per stay is a nuisance fee. Paying $15 per day or $105 extra for a week is ridiculous. They are definitely not outstanding enough to warrant an extra $105 per week (of which I bet the HOA gets about $15 or less reimbursement toward those expenses and Diamond pockets the rest). Choose another resort.

 

[pedro47]

What a way raise money for someone? Hopefully this a three (3) way spit Apollo Mgt, The Resort Mgt and the HOA.

 

[DRIless]

Resort Fees: Resort amenities fee is $15.00 U.S. dollars.
Cash or Credit is accepted. Per day/per unit + 11% tax.

The Historic Powhatan Resort (#1046)
3601 Ironbound Rd. Williamsburg, VA. 23188
Resort Telephone Number: 757/220-1200

Anyone exchanged into Powhatan via RCI
recently and paid the following listed fees?
What was included?

A lot of it is things they used to have a la carte fees which were annoying enough as most other Williamsburg resorts included these types of amenities with no charge. As annoying as the pay if you use fees were, it is even worse now as it is pay whether you use or not. Per Diamond Fact Sheet: Resort Fee includes WiFi, business center, indoor pool, racquetball, tennis, and boarding pass printing.
$10-25 per stay is a nuisance fee. Paying $15 per day or $105 extra for a week is ridiculous. They are definitely not outstanding enough to warrant an extra $105 per week (of which I bet the HOA gets about $15 or less reimbursement toward those expenses and Diamond pockets the rest). Choose another resort.

That resort amenities fee is charged to exchangers and OTA rentals and probably does go mostly to Diamond management. It is not charged to owners using their own week or their own points to book.

 

[Egret1986]

A lot of it is things they used to have a la carte fees which were annoying enough as most other Williamsburg resorts included these types of amenities with no charge. As annoying as the pay if you use fees were, it is even worse now as it is pay whether you use or not. Per Diamond Fact Sheet: Resort Fee includes WiFi, business center, indoor pool, racquetball, tennis, and boarding pass printing.
$10-25 per stay is a nuisance fee. Paying $15 per day or $105 extra for a week is ridiculous. They are definitely not outstanding enough to warrant an extra $105 per week (of which I bet the HOA gets about $15 or less reimbursement toward those expenses and Diamond pockets the rest). Choose another resort.

Diamond and their amenity fees are ridiculous since you have to pay whether or not you use any of the amenities.n

I purchased an Extra Vacation from RCI for an upcoming March stay at one of their resorts. I was aware of the daily amenity fee ($25/day = $175/week). It's a Sunday check-in and we won't arrive until Wednesday. I'm curious if I will still be charged for the days prior to checking in. I expect that we will be charged the full seven days. That's the way Diamond rolls.

 

[pedro47]

What is Diamond motto?

 

[Miss Marty]

DIAMOND RESORTS

How does the resort determine which services are included in
the annual maintenance fee and which incur and extra charge?

Every interval owner is responsible for paying an equal share...

Owners pay their maintenance fee for the week
they own - if they use it, rent it or exchange it.
A portion of their fee covers amenities like...
WiFi, business center, indoor pool, etc.

Diamond Resorts is charging both owners and "RCI guests"
for the same services that was paid by the owner in their
annual maintenance fee. Where is the extra income going?

This morning I noticed two other Williamsburg Resorts
charging resort fees and service charges for RCI exchanges.

The Colonies at Williamsburg (#DJ38)
Williamsburg Plantation (#DJ37)

 

[tonyg]

Too many options in Williamsburg to submit to this virtual bribery. Stay where there's no fee or don't go at all.

 

[DRIless]

DIAMOND RESORTS

How does the resort determine which services are included in the annual maintenance fee and which incur and extra charge?

Every interval owner is responsible for paying an equal share...

Owners pay their maintenance fee for the week they own - if they use it, rent it or exchange it. A portion of their fee covers amenities like... WiFi, business center, indoor pool, etc.

Diamond Resorts is charging both owners and "RCI guests" for the same services that was paid by the owner in their annual maintenance fee. Where is the extra income going?

This morning I noticed two other Williamsburg Resorts charging resort fees and service charges for RCI exchanges.

The Colonies at Williamsburg (#DJ38)
Williamsburg Plantation (#DJ37)

Too many options in Williamsburg to submit to this virtual bribery. Stay where there's no fee or don't go at all.

You need a forensic accountant to figure out where all the money really goes, but the good guess is more into Diamond's pockets without reimbursing the monies paid by owners in their maintenance fees. I think the reasons resorts are doing this is to give them another selling point when dealing with exchangers who sucker in to a tour because ..... first they "reimburse" the fees to get the exchanger to take a tour and then they show how you don't pay those extra fees when you're an owner/member.

One other resort in Willliamsburg that I know of charges an extra amenities fee, Wyndham Kingsgate charges exchangers AND members a $6/unit/night fee.

Diamond Resorts The Historic Powhatan Resort
Diamond Resorts Greensprings Vacation Resort
Berkeley/Vacation Village The Colonies at Williamsburg
Berkeley/Vacation Village Williamsburg Plantation
Berkeley/Vacation Village Patriots Inn ??
Wyndham Kingsgate Resort

how about these?
Marriott's Manor Club at Ford's Colony
King's Creek Plantation
Bluegreen Parkside Resort
Bluegreen Patrick Henry Square
Wyndham Governors Green
Wyndham Patriots' Place
Westgate Historic Williamsburg Resort
Holiday Inn Club Vacations Williamsburg Resort/Colonial Crossing