Hobokie
TUG Member
- Joined
- Aug 22, 2018
- Messages
- 610
- Reaction score
- 319
- Points
- 174
- Location
- San Jose, CA
- Resorts Owned
- Elara (HGVC) + Worldmark
@Jan M. , since I am newer, wondering if there's a reference post for all of these abbreviations we use on here? I'm learning some (slowly), but others...?
I am not seeing any "sale" weeks when I log in to RCI. I see exchange, extra vacations and last call vacations. I am new to RCI. I have used Interval for years. My resort switched from Interval to RCI late last year. I had paid for Platinum Interval for 5 years just before the announcement. So now i have membership in both. I have looked at the RCI website and browsed around but have never booked anything. I am thinking about retiring in the next 6 months and do more traveling. Where do you see the "sales" weeks?It is the RCI sale weeks that I find most valuable. I've been booking 2-4 of them a year for the past several years and can use even more of them now that my husband retired. I've never booked any Extra Vacation or Last Call weeks.
I am not seeing any "sale" weeks when I log in to RCI. I see exchange, extra vacations and last call vacations. I am new to RCI. I have used Interval for years. My resort switched from Interval to RCI late last year. I had paid for Platinum Interval for 5 years just before the announcement. So now i have membership in both. I have looked at the RCI website and browsed around but have never booked anything. I am thinking about retiring in the next 6 months and do more traveling. Where do you see the "sales" weeks?
I am not seeing any "sale" weeks when I log in to RCI. I see exchange, extra vacations and last call vacations. I am new to RCI. I have used Interval for years. My resort switched from Interval to RCI late last year. I had paid for Platinum Interval for 5 years just before the announcement. So now i have membership in both. I have looked at the RCI website and browsed around but have never booked anything. I am thinking about retiring in the next 6 months and do more traveling. Where do you see the "sales" weeks?
Nope...RCI weeks has the last call or extra vacation weeks, and then weeks that have reduced TPUs. Sounds like weeks/points are different in that respect.
I've paid between $199 - $299 plus tax for full week stays.
I agree we have a timeshare in Mexico that we use for 2 weeks and pay for 2 extra days. It's fixed weeks. And 1 odd week in Tahoe but we use it for day uses. I'm thinking of getting 1 more week in Vegas a tri year. So we can go to Vegas ever 3rd year. And so far we haven't needed to trade. So we don't pay any extra fees.I would never buy a timeshare just to get access to extra vacations. Only buy a timeshare if you will use it or trade it and to trade it you need a good trader. It is important not to just get any timeshare. You want to make sure you have something that is desirable and others would want when you no longer want it. You can find desirable ones for free too.
I took ownership of a free Vistana week here on TUG bargain deals. It let me join RCI and Interval. I gave it away and did not inform either exchange company. So I have both accounts with $0 maint fees. As long as I pay RCI and Interval annual fees I can access RCI extra and last calls as well as Interval Getaways and ACs.