Absolutely correct ! We have a fairly large group of friends that we've met over the years through our ownership at the OC. Some trade more often than others, some choose to use their home property always. None of us seem to think we'll join DC since it provides simply no benefit for us because of the poor point allocation given to Aruba (meaning to the owner to turn in points).
Unlike many other destinations I think there are a great number of Aruba owners who only own Aruba so that they wont have the ability to add the points to their other point allocations.
On a personal note I keep reading and reading Tug given d-day coming in June thinking that I dont wish to miss the boat but then I start asking myself what would I ever use DC for ? Everytime I think perhaps we should join I go back and look at the point chart and find that there is nowhere we'd be able to go that we actually do go for the points we'd get for our 1 bdrm weeks. I'd prefer when trading to go outside of Marriott than get 4 or 5 days for a week. As an example...we didnt use our weeks last year....I banked them with I.I and was able to get a full week in a 1 bdrm back at the OC for one of them for the end of Nov this year so that our friends could join us when we're going for our usual 2 wks. With the second week we've booked a week in St. Maarten for next year at Oyster Pond also in a 1 bdrm which is an I.I gold leaf resort and looks lovely. For 14 nights I'm getting 14 nights. Why would I trade through DC when the most we could get on a similiar basis would be 9 or perhaps 10 nights for the point allocation we'd be given(unless of course we wanted to do Orlando
) ?
