Santa Fe New Mexico

[ava]

I am looking to purchase a timeshare in Santa Fe. Anyone have any suggestions where to find one at a good price?

 

[riverdees05]

Check out

http://www.timeshareaz.com/

 

[Spence]

Check out http://www.timeshareaz.com/

That's an excellent site especially for AZ/Sedona timeshares.

I am looking to purchase a timeshare in Santa Fe. Anyone have any suggestions where to find one at a good price?

Villas de Santa Fe is a very nice resort just a short three or four block walk from the Central Plaza. You can buy it by itself (I just did, an Undivided Interest-UDI (20Kpts) that gets about 4weeks in a 1BR, or you can access it with any Club Sunterra ownership, or with any Sunterra 'Trust' ownership, or Vacation Internationale ownership (They 'own' a percentage of the resort). There are some great deals on 'Trust' ownerships right now at Holiday Group, ask for Catherine.

 

[ava]

Thanks I will do that. Also, does Santa Fe trade well? I have tried to trade into Santa Fe many times and haven't had any luck.

 

[Spence]

Thanks I will do that. Also, does Santa Fe trade well? I have tried to trade into Santa Fe many times and haven't had any luck.

It would seem that it should, but all my ownerships there are Points based in Sunterra or VI, so I wouldn't know about conventional trading. If you'd like to rent there, let me know.

 

[riverdees05]

I was looking to buy there a couple of years ago, and the information I got from foks in TUG, is that for some reason it didn't at time trade well with RCI. So I didn't purchase. I too, don't understand since I been looking off and on since that time to trade into Santa Fe and have not had an exchange. I now belong to II have seen a couple come up, but not in the time frame that I could use.

 

[eal]

I have exchanged for two units at Villas de Santa Fe for July /07. I got one through Platinum Interchange and the other through Trading Places.

I had no luck with II or RCI.

 

[riverdees05]

eal,

Did you get one or two bedrooms? Maybe need to branch out from II and RCI.

 

[SallyMagoo]

We own a one bedroom deluxe at Villas De Santa Fe - floating, but can obtain any week at the resort, and frankly, I'm going to tell you the truth, trading with RCI sucks! And there was a definite change around 2002, because before that it traded well. I got Bay Club Hawaii with the unit in 2002, but after that - no more great trades.

Santa Fe pulls about as well as our studio Marriott Birch in Vail, in RCI, and neither are good RCI traders.

I don't fully understand why RCI gives Santa Fe such lousy trading power, when it is very hard to trade into it. I couldn't even pull Santa Fe with Santa Fe in some tests I did. l I will never deposit the unit into RCI again --maybe this is part of the reason no one can find Santa Fe units - owners won't deposit into RCI, many of them use the units theirselves, or they are part of Club Sunterra which trades through II. By the way, II refuses to take our weeks unit in Santa Fe because it's not part of Club Sunterra.

I haven't tried depositing into SFX, so don't know about how well it would trade there. Generally, I have disappointed with what SFX has to offer, so I'm not sure I want to deposit it there.

The best bet with Santa Fe, in my opinion, is to either use it yourself, for private trades or for rental; I have had quite a few offers for private trades with our Santa Fe unit.

 

[riverdees05]

SallyMagoo,

What is a delux one bedroom and how many does it sleep?

 

[eal]

It might be worth your while to talk with Trading Places. They seem to have good inventory in a variety of nice places. There is no membership fee.

 

[SallyMagoo]

SallyMagoo,

What is a delux one bedroom and how many does it sleep?

Riverdees: The deluxe one bedroom is slightly larger than the standard one bedroom, and has a bigger kitchen and a fireplace. It sleeps 4 people.

 

[JudyH]

I just traded my Myrtle Beach summer week for July 07, thru RCI. Then I rented a week (July 07) through RCI for my friend. While I was waiting for the search to come thru, I was FROSTED that the same week was available for rental. But you know how it goes, once I got the trade, I needed the other unit for my friend. We are going to be at the Creativity and Madness Meeting the last week in July. Appropriate, huh?

 

[Spence]

I just traded my Myrtle Beach summer week for July 07, thru RCI. Then I rented a week (July 07) through RCI for my friend. While I was waiting for the search to come thru, I was FROSTED that the same week was available for rental. But you know how it goes, once I got the trade, I needed the other unit for my friend. We are going to be at the Creativity and Madness Meeting the last week in July. Appropriate, huh?

What did the rental go for??

 

[JudyH]

$835 for the same one bedroom I traded for. 7 nights, Sat to Sat. It really doesn't pay to own and exchange.

 

[Spence]

$835 for the same one bedroom I traded for. 7 nights, Sat to Sat. It really doesn't pay to own and exchange.

That's not bad, I'd want about that for a 1BR Summer Villas de Santa Fe.