Question Regarding Wyndham Preferred

[Ty1on]

Another question I have is that I currently own 385,000 points. Is it really worth it to obtain more points to reach Silver level? Also if I do purchase some points in Florida will that allow me to ARP in Florida? I appreciate all of the information.

No. You can't reach VIP with resale points.

Purchasing a UDI or Fixed Week conversion gives you ARP at that resort. I'd suggest, though, that you post what weeks you look for at each resort and someone with experience can probably tell you if you have a shot at 10 months.

You have been trying at 9 months, and the floodgates open to reservations at 10.

 

[cctinnell]

I didn't know that resale points did not qualify for VIP so I guess that is out the window.

We would like to go to Destin (Majestic Sun or Emerald Grand) at the end of May or first of June

 

[Ty1on]

I didn't know that resale points did not qualify for VIP so I guess that is out the window.

We would like to go to Destin (Majestic Sun or Emerald Grand) at the end of May or first of June

Memorial Day Weekend. I'm sure someone here can give you an idea of whether you have a shot at 10 months. Have you looked at the week or two after Memorial day weekend?

If not, and you want to buy more points to secure that week in ARP, search ebay, TUG and RedWeek until you find one of those properties resale. I've only seen fixed weeks in off-season for MS and none for EG, but I only look for freebies here. I search points contracts several times per week on EBay.

Understand, though, that once you decide to buy enough points tied to those resorts to get ARP, you've rendered your current 315,000 points useless for yourself. You can probably get $3K less closing and transfer costs if you sell it off.



Actually, I just looked and 3 MS points contracts have sold in the last couple weeks. They are tiny, though, 63K or 84K each. The 63K went for about $8 per thousand points because closing was free. The others went for around a dollar per thousand points because buyer paid closing of $750 on one and $300 on the other. Bringing them to about $5/K and $11/K respectively. You obviously want more points than those and it may be a pain (and expensive) to string together enough baby contracts to make it work.

 

[Bigrob]

Another question I have is that I currently own 385,000 points. Is it really worth it to obtain more points to reach Silver level? Also if I do purchase some points in Florida will that allow me to ARP in Florida? I appreciate all of the information.

Since your points so far are resale, you have effectively 0 points retail/developer, so no it would not be worth purchasing 400K points to attain silver status.

Yes, if you purchase UDI at a resort in FL you will have ARP rights to that resort. But you don't need it for most. Depending upon when you want to go, certain weeks may be difficult in South Florida, and Emerald Grande and Destin are two of the harder locations to book at (at times).