Timesharing purchasing at all inclusive resorts " how do MF's work regards to food and drinks???

[Tenga]

Anyone have experience or have an idea how a TS resort that is all inclusive works? Does the maintenance fee included the food and drink? If not, is there a way to check in and stay but not pay to eat inclusive and eat outside the resort??? Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge on all inclusive timeshare resorts. I searched the forums but nothing came up on how all inclusive resorts TS handle this.
Regards, Tenga

 

[moonstone]

Usually you exchange your week for a week at the chosen resort, pay the exchange fee, then you must pay the All Inclusive fee to the resort which RCI has plainly stated on the website and I believe on another pop-up right before you book. I often see that fee at, or over, $100. / day / person. There may also be a resort fee on top of that. In our over 43 years of RCI membership I have never found an All Inclusive exchange that was cheaper than what I can book online or even with a travel agent that also included airfare from Toronto and a shuttle to the resort which you dont get by going through RCI. We always use RCI for regular timeshare vacations and book any AI stays on our own online. If you use the filters on the left side of the RCI website when looking for a resort, there is one that you can choose AI not required. That will filter out the mandatory AI resorts. Look carefully at the resorts before booking as many will not have a kitchen and you will need to take a cab or resort shuttle ($) to get groceries or go into town to eat, and also may be limited to what onsite restaurants you can use. I even heard of one that limited non-AI stay people to what pool they could use.


~Diane

 

[dioxide45]

I am not even sure that there are a lot of all inclusvie timeshare resorts. Perhaps some in Mexico. I know Royal Sands and Royal Haciendas are mandatory AI for those who exchange in but not for owners. Most of the other AI resorts you see on the II website for exchange are just regular AI resorts that people can also pay cash through many online travel agent sites. They aren't timeshares. Most AI resorts and chains, like Palace Resorts, also sell "timeshare like" memberships. I still wouldn't consider those to be timeshares. We gripe about all the AI options on RCI and II, but in many cases those aren't even timeshares.