RCI or II

[Catira]

Hi do you get better exchanges with RCI or II when you deposit your royal haciendas 2 bedroom unit?
Can this timeshare get a dvc exchange of a 2 bedroom?

 

[Luanne]

Do you belong to both RCI and II?

 

[montygz]

Hi do you get better exchanges with RCI or II when you deposit your royal haciendas 2 bedroom unit?
Can this timeshare get a dvc exchange of a 2 bedroom?

You won't be able to get DVC exchanges in RCI as they have moved to II. There are still a few stray units showing up in RCI, but moving forward you'd want II.

Picking what system you want is going to come down to what resorts you want access to. Whether or not your resort will pull those units is another story. Interval is not as transparent as RCI, so nothing is guaranteed.

 

[mdurette]

Do you have your ownership of this resort registered with II already? If so, then you can easily check to see if it has the power to pull DVC, there are some 2BRs out there now. If not, does your resort have an owners group somewhere, maybe on Facebook? If so, ask someone that has their ownership registered with II to check for you.

As for "better" exchanges. That all depends on what you are looking for in an exchange. Overall II has better quality resorts - but II has more of them in maybe an area that you desire to go. For excample: want to spend a week in Newport, RI. RCI has alot more options than II.

 

[Catira]

Do you belong to both RCI and II?

Currently my timeshares exchange via RCI only.

 

[Catira]

Do you have your ownership of this resort registered with II already? If so, then you can easily check to see if it has the power to pull DVC, there are some 2BRs out there now. If not, does your resort have an owners group somewhere, maybe on Facebook? If so, ask someone that has their ownership registered with II to check for you.

As for "better" exchanges. That all depends on what you are looking for in an exchange. Overall II has better quality resorts - but II has more of them in maybe an area that you desire to go. For excample: want to spend a week in Newport, RI. RCI has alot more options than II.

At this time just doing research and seeing what trades the unit might get with II as we only have RCI. I will look into asking someone if their RH can pull the 2 bedroom dvc units. Although not a biggie if it doesn’t.

 

[Catira]

You won't be able to get DVC exchanges in RCI as they have moved to II. There are still a few stray units showing up in RCI, but moving forward you'd want II.

Picking what system you want is going to come down to what resorts you want access to. Whether or not your resort will pull those units is another story. Interval is not as transparent as RCI, so nothing is guaranteed.

Pulling DVC is not a big must have. Was just curious if RH saw inventory. Just came back from boardwalk recently and released wilderness for 8/20/23 via our RCI exchanges.

 

[escanoe]

I belong to both. 90% of my trading is RCI.

It may change when my kids grow up and we retire and have more flexibility on when and where we go. RCI has way more local stuff in my area.

My view, generally, is if you have a highly desirable location and week and want to trade into a nice place, II may give you an advantage. RCI is more flexible, and people with less desirable intervals can use the flexibility (to combine and extend deposits in weeks or to have a points account) to trade into units they could not typically get in II.

My prime season, gold crown, (non-fancy brand) Williamsburg VA 4-BR lock-off resort can be traded in either II or RCI. It has more trading value trading into DVC in II than what it had in RCI. (On average, it would get about 1.5 or less trades per year into DVC using RCI. Trading in II it will get (match for) 2 trades into any DVC unit that appears in general inventory. (DVC ratios could change tomorrow, but that has held for the almost 1.5 years DVC has been back in II.)

But my actual preference right now is RCI because it has more where I want (can go) AND it gets more value trading down to less valuable weeks since you are not forced into 1:1 trades.

Note: I generalize a fair amount here in ways that I feel leave the right impression. But there are a lot of exceptions and nuances when it comes to timeshare trading.

In my view II's fees are slightly more reasonable than RCI's -- but they have a duopoly. The lack of competition keeps fees higher AND removes incentive for them to be innovative and more efficient.

 

[garciajason7]

I luckily was able to cancel my Westin Lagunamar timeshare in time. I want to buy on the resale market.

Can someone tell me if Westin Lagunamar is available on interval in May and for how much? Like a 7 day getaway.

I'm looking to see if interval is even worth it.

 

[sponger76]

I luckily was able to cancel my Westin Lagunamar timeshare in time. I want to buy on the resale market.

Can someone tell me if Westin Lagunamar is available on interval in May and for how much? Like a 7 day getaway.

I'm looking to see if interval is even worth it.

Replied to your other separate post on this.

 

[AwayWeGo]

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