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Practical Experience of Renting at Aruba Ocean Club

Would they let a 47 Gold week be changed to a 52 Platinum? I totally understand the concurrent weeks even if you are a snowbird who is spending a month or more and not renting your units. Nothing can be done now, but holiday weeks should really be fixed weeks. They have a similar problem at KoOlina. Everything except 51 and 52 are Platinum weeks so you have 50 weeks of owners all trying to book spring break and summer.
Aruba, though, is the only place I've heard of that has so many multiple week owners and 51 and 52 not fixed ownership.

When the OC was being built, we had a meeting with Roger Sherwood, the head of sales. Sales had not yet started. We had already spent the previous 13 years, weeks 51/52 at the Hyatt hotel. We asked him if they would consider fixed weeks for 51/52. His response was that Marriott had done a demographic study and there was no need for it. We said that it is not true. We always booked our rooms at the Hyatt for the next year before we left after NYE. The hotel was always 95% full from repeat guests. Roger said no,people don't continually return. Guess what he was wrong and Marriott actually created the situation that has occurred.
 
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