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Stop it! What resort are you refering to?

:wave: I was actually just thinking the samething the other day about the resort abbreviations used here and on the Starwood area.
 
To Terry: I mean that a lot of people say MOC when they refer to Marriott Aruba Ocean Club and MOC for Maui Ocean Club which is the point of the original poster here. Usually you can figure it out by the context but sometimes the title lines are ambiguous. I do see what Sunbum, the OP here, means ( not to confuse Sunbum w/ Ocean Pointe....:rofl:

Smooth Air:cool:
 
Acronyms

Acronyms are the bane of the English language. First of all DH does not mean "darling husband" or some other such nonsense. DH means Decision Height. That's the altitude the Pressure Altimeter is reading when the pilot, flying the ILS (Instument Landing System) makes the decision of are you spending the night in Aruba or some other exotic destination that you didn't plan on. If the pilot is using a non-precision approach he/she will make that decision at the MDA (Minimum Descent Altitude). Just because it starts with M doesn't mean Marriott owns it.

I just retired after 40 years in a job where acronym's rule. I'm adjusting. Give me time.
 
I think we should all write the name of the resort the first time mentioned in our post, then abbreviate after that, if we must.

This is what I will try to do anyway. I think it's nicer for us all but especially for any newbies reading the forums.

Janna
 
But nobody calls Marriott Ocean Pointe MPB here. Everybody says OP or MOP which will be confusing when the new Oceana Palms opens! I wonder what they will call that..... MPB2???
 
The initials for Oceana Palms has already been established as MVO.

Can someone guess where they came up with that....

Go figure!
 
MVO? What's that stand for???
Well, it won't be MVO here. It will be Ocean Palms( not Oceana...what's with the Oceana...I hate the sound of that....) or Palms or OP2 or something like that. Not MVO for sure.
 
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Gee I always thought DH meant D***Head. That's why I use it so often when referring to my DH
 
Kathy....you are too funny! Well, he wld probably prefer that to Decision Height!!! I wonder if DW means Decision Weight in Jim's world???

Smooth Air:cool:
 
Test Time

Name them

MBP MMO MM1 MCU MHB MGC MC1 MBY MGO MHH HPS MAO MSU MFC MMB
MBP MMO MM1 MCU MHB MGC MC1 MBY MGO MHH HPS MAO MSU MFC MMB
MBP MMO MM1 MCU MHB MGC MC1 MBY MGO MHH HPS MAO MSU MFC MMB
 
Zac495 said:
Name them

MBP MMO MM1 MCU MHB MGC MC1 MBY MGO MHH HPS MAO MSU MFC MMB
MBP MMO MM1 MCU MHB MGC MC1 MBY MGO MHH HPS MAO MSU MFC MMB
MBP MMO MM1 MCU MHB MGC MC1 MBY MGO MHH HPS MAO MSU MFC MMB
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Darn it! It's Friday already; where did the week go?
 
Zac495 said:
Name them

MBP MMO MM1 MCU MHB MGC MC1 MBY MGO MHH HPS MAO MSU MFC MMB
MBP MMO MM1 MCU MHB MGC MC1 MBY MGO MHH HPS MAO MSU MFC MMB
MBP MMO MM1 MCU MHB MGC MC1 MBY MGO MHH HPS MAO MSU MFC MMB
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Okay, here goes:

MBP - BeachPlace Towers
MMO - Maui Ocean Club
MM1 - Maui Ocean Club (Lahaina Tower)
MCU - Custom House
MHB - (formerly) Horizon's at Branson
MGC - Grand Chateau
MC1 - Grand Chateau (second tower)
MBY - Barony Beach Club
MGO - Grande Ocean
MHH - Harbour Club (Harbour Town)
HPS - Harbour Point (Shelter Cove)
MAO - Aruba Ocean Club
MSU - Aruba Surf Club
MFC - Frechman's Cove
MMB - Marbella Beach Resort


Please let me know if I passed. I wouldn't want to screw up my GPA. (And I thought my Government and Politics test today was hard!)
 
K.I.S.S.

Since I'm not into internal trading, I'm not familiar with II codes. At my age, if I learn something new, I have to purge old memories and defrage. Very resource intensive and time consuming. I'm going with ecwinch's schema...
 
luv2vacation said:
Okay, here goes:

MBP - BeachPlace Towers
MMO - Maui Ocean Club
MM1 - Maui Ocean Club (Lahaina Tower)
MCU - Custom House
MHB - (formerly) Horizon's at Branson
MGC - Grand Chateau
MC1 - Grand Chateau (second tower)
MBY - Barony Beach Club
MGO - Grande Ocean
MHH - Harbour Club (Harbour Town)
HPS - Harbour Point (Shelter Cove)
MAO - Aruba Ocean Club
MSU - Aruba Surf Club
MFC - Frechman's Cove
MMB - Marbella Beach Resort


Please let me know if I passed. I wouldn't want to screw up my GPA. (And I thought my Government and Politics test today was hard!)
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Very impressive. You are a dynamic timeshare owner who gets a gold star today. A + and 4.0 :clap:

Correct - it wasn't Friday. It was pre-test day (which is always Monday). Those who pass on Monday, do not have to study all week. The rest of you will be tested Friday.
 
I can tell everyone here is quite old. (myself included) Try text messaging w/ a young kid..............It's like learning a new language..........
 
Well..it looks like all of you missed the test yesterday (Monday)! I was the only one there and it was brutal! Where is Dave when we need him?

I will always refer to St Kitts as SKB!
 
Usually it doesn't take too much searching through a thread to figure out what resort the abbreviation refers to. It's kind of a brain teaser. People spend hours on Suduko and crosswords. What's the problem with working out the acronyms?
 
Quilter: I guess some people don't like brain teasers & I can understand why. This shd be a no brainer.

Smooth Air:cool:
 
I actually got a cell phone not all that long ago to be in better contact with my teenagers, and I do text with good results. I got one of the phones with the keyboad to simplify.



Carta said:
I can tell everyone here is quite old. (myself included) Try text messaging w/ a young kid..............It's like learning a new language..........
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But some resorts have 2 codes

The most obvious (in my mind) is Maui Ocean Club. MMO is the old hotel conversion and MM1 are the new towers. While both are very nice, I would not ever try to compare the two (Neither does II, thus two codes)

So sometimes it's important to know the difference.

Time to learn the codes :D
 
My abbreviations story

My funny abbreviations story... I thought for months that "OP" meant Ocean Pointe, until I realized that many times the sentence did not make a bit of sense!! I then dug (and dug and dug) in the old posts, and finally discovered that OP was "Original Poste" (at least that's what I think it is!!)

So I can empathize with abbreviation fatigue...

Regards - Looking forward to my first owner week at MBP (or is BeachPlace MBT, for Towers....hmmmmmmm Guess I'll just have to look it up) - I enjoy the TUGGER Sense of Humor

Wesley
 
A reminder that most people do not know all of the codes and it really helps to spell out the name.
 
ann824 said:
A reminder that most people do not know all of the codes and it really helps to spell out the name.
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There is a list of TS acronyms on the TUG Advice Page. I don't think you are going to get people to type out those long names, so you might want to take a look at the list. Also, some of the resort system pages, like the Starwood forum, have a list of the abbreviations and acronyms at the top of the page.

Many of the abbreviations, like OP (original poster) are just common internet shorthand, and you can find lists of those by doing a google search. Here's one - http://gaarde.org/acronyms/?lookup=O

If all else fails, don't hesitate to ask! :hi:
 
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