RCI resorts on approved list for DVC

[Culli]

I see a lot of Sanibel listings. I don't know if they will have availability but it's nice to see them there. Disney is doing the same thing they did with II. A short list of resorts for their members to choose from. Maybe they think we couldn't handle the full list.

This is another reason I don't understand why DVC members would ever trade with their points. Maybe if you are stuck can't use them or a once in lifetime thing. But there are so much better options out there to trade with and you actually get to manage the trade not Disney. I just don't get it

 

[icydog]

I personally like to trade with other owners for a new timesharing experience. I traded a BCV studio for a week in Feb at the Sanibel Cottages. We were both happy. I wish I could do that trade again. I am open to exchanges that get me into places I cannot get to on my own. Like places that don't have Marriotts. I also will try to find places I cannot get to with Bluegreen or DVC points.

There is always the option to rent your points. That used to be lucrative but I have not had anything up for rent in months. I should start that again.


I should add that I had a good year at the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008 and rented all my points. I won't get a new allotment until Sept 2009. Of course I can always borrow points-- but I am tired of continually being in a hole. I am going to wait until Sept 2009 to get back to being in the current year.

 

[gjw007]

Not if you are trading a Seaworld week, at least that's the way it has always been in the past. If you can change your points for another location you may have a shot. Right now you cannot trade into DVC with another Orlando timeshare but that may have changed with the advent of RCI.. you never know.

I believe this was a II restriction about not trading in from resorts within 50 miles of WDW. RCI to the best of my knowledge doesn't enforce this trading restriction as I have traded Orlando area resorts for Orlando area resorts. The unknown here is what is in DVC contract as there are individual choices here as some resorts may choose to have this enforced. The rationale I was given was that the RCI resorts in the areas liked the exchanges from the area as it brought in more potential buyers.

 

[lawgs]

I believe this was a II restriction about not trading in from resorts within 50 miles of WDW. RCI to the best of my knowledge doesn't enforce this trading restriction as I have traded Orlando area resorts for Orlando area resorts. The unknown here is what is in DVC contract as there are individual choices here as some resorts may choose to have this enforced. The rationale I was given was that the RCI resorts in the areas liked the exchanges from the area as it brought in more potential buyers.

currently per RCI VC there is a 30 mile radius restriction on resorts for trading into DVC using RCI

 

[Lisa P]

The linked webpage says to "Call Member Services to check availability." So this is apparently just a limited listing of potential destinations, using RCI's web interface to search/look at options.

I don't see anything remotely near Anaheim, as an alternative for a Disneyland vacation, rather than the higher points cost of nightly stays at Disneyland Hotel or the new, small DVC there.

Don't see Wyndham Alexandria for Washington DC visitors - it's a great urban location that I'd think would interest some DVCers.

Don't see WorldMark San Francisco - excellent urban location and resort.

The Hilton and Wyndham locations in Las Vegas and Hawaii are included. So I'd think that someone who wants to use HGVC points or Wyndham points to trade into DVC ought to have no problem. Though, apparently, some have been unable to snag a DVC match by using Wyndham points in RCI Weeks so far, even though there have been sightings. It remains to be seen whether this is a temporary issue or not... maybe larger points amounts are needed?

There are no Orlando area listings at all, just as they did with II. This eliminates the option of trading out and staying offsite when DVC is booked solid during prime holidays, high DVC points. It remains to be seen whether DVC's decision to limit their Members' access to area resorts will somehow translate into a new policy for RCI, of restricting RCI members from trading their Orlando weeks into DVC or not. If this shows up online in black and white, it'd be more convincing (and concerning) than the comments of one RCI VC. It'd indicate a change in RCI policy.

As a past HHI Marriott owner, I was restricted from trading that week through II into DVC's HHI resort. But RCI's HHI owners may do so now, if they want to try the themed resort, since there are so few RCI HHI resorts on the beach. At least the DVC there has a beach house with a shuttle over there during the daytime. Staying off-beach is fine for us when it's too cool for beach swimming anyway and the beach is rather windy.

Very interesting linked page, Alwysonvac. Will be curious to see if or how it changes over time, as DVC Members request additions to the resort list or comment on their exchange experiences.

 

[spiceycat]

the final choice is a not rated Ocean Towers Beach Club

this resort is next door to the Holiday Inn that has the spring break party.

plus unlike some of the others in PCB - the adult only has be 23 - not 25 or 28 like the others require.

it is a party resort.

think a number of the RCI choices were like that - near something that they hope DVC members would like to do.

these timeshares don't need a high rating - they have what DVC has - location.

so if that Holiday Inn was not next door - it would not be on the list (my opinion)

 

[FLDVCFamily]

Well, then, all I can say is bummer, the options are disappointing.

What's even worse to me is the number of resorts that we can trade into that also have big lists of units sitting on RCI last call. Can you just imagine the moment when the DVC owner who traded 200+ DVC points for an exchange finds out that the guy next to him at the pool got the same unit for under $300 on last call Even if you don't have an RCI account (and therefore access to last call), why wouldn't you rent out the points and then use the $$ to rent the desired unit for a song off of Ebay or a site like VRBO? Direct exchanges with RCI don't favor the DVC owner in my opinion anyway.

Now trading into DVC with a cheap weeks trader just got really attractive though. It looks like they are only making 1 and 2 bedroom deposits now instead of all the studio deposits that used to show up on II. I'd love to know the rationale behind going with RCI and then not depositing studios for exchange anymore???