Some better and some worse. Westin Kierland is heads and shoulders above Canyon Villas. Ocean Watch is far superior to Sheraton Broadway Plantation. Some are almost similar and can go one way or the other - Desert Springs, Shadow Ridge vs. Westin Mission Hills and Desert Willow.
I’d say that the Mexico resorts that Vistana has are infinitely better than anything currently in the MVC Mexico portfolio.
IMO that's a low bar in more ways than one.
For sure, since MVC is just sitting on an empty plot of land in Cancun (unless they sold it already).
I’m not aware of any MVC resorts in Mexico. Are you speaking of Marriott hotels and resorts instead?
Do you happen to have a point chart for the Westin Cape Coral Resort?
Only have charts for Westin timeshare properties within Vistana so unfortunately can't help you with that.
This really isn't a Vistana timeshare property. From what I understand there is a timeshare property colocated with the Westin hotel, but the timeshare technically isn't a Westin nor Vistana resort. It is similar to the Buganvilias resort in Puerto Vallarta. It is located with the Sheraton Buganvilias Resort, but it isn't Vistana.
That too bad this resort isn’t part of Vistana. It’s a beautiful property. We stayed there in 2016 in a 3 bedroom unit that we booked through II getaways. The only downside is the resort is not on a beach. It is on the bay. However it’s a short drive to Sanibel and Captiva islands.
That's interesting -- I was under the impression that the Hyatt properties would not be included (and still don't expect them to be....) I will be curious to see what happens on August 1st (if anything).
I guess I should have said approaches infinity in the limit!I'd say it's more of an undefined number better.
Thanks - I'm trying to reconcile this with the chart posted by @kozykritter in post 615 . For the 8 days it looks like it would be 5900 (full week) + 1075 (Saturday night) = 6975. Did they perhaps look at a different set of dates - or is there a discount method I don't know about.
You could look at say a Tuesday to Wednesday reservation to get the eight nights and only have the one set of expensive Fri and Sat nights in there. When you do a Sat to Sun 8 night stay, you have that extra expensive Sat point night instead of a cheaper mid week.
Alas, I have the kids as my big constraint. Their spring break starts March 25 and they have to be back in school on April 3rd. I thought about only doing seven days, but the airfare is the same, so I added the more expensive Saturday night as I've had a few extra points kicking around because of all the covid banking.
I did looked at the chart you referenced from @kozykritter and I can't see a week in March or April that would cost 5500 let along 8 nights. THe only exception would be after april 14th where a 2BR for eight nights would run 5,700 if you only include one Fri and one Sat night.
I suppose there is the remote possibility that they changed the points chart since first published and downgraded the amount of points needed. Could happen...seems unlikely
There is a licensing issue with Hyatt hotels preventing them from including Hyatt timeshares into the abound program. Until that contract expires don’t expect to see the Hyatt inventory included.
When Hyatt sold/spun off Hyatt timeshare, there was a 50-year licensing where Hyatt timeshare will continue to use the Hyatt name and pay to Hyatt, the hotel company, license fees to continue to use the name. This arrangement cannot be terminated unless Marriott Vacation Worldwide wants to go into negotiation and likely would cost MVW hundreds of millions of dollars to do so.