Travel and Leisure

[Danlop88]

Had my first owners update today with Club Wyndham.

They kept talking about Travel and Leisure(t&l) and that I was not part of it. They stated that most of owners are now part of it. If wanted to be part of it I would need to pay 15k while purchasing some CWA points. If I did not buy I may lose being able to reserve.

Of course I didn’t bite and the seller seemed upset I didn’t take advantage of this one time discount.

Anyone know if there is even a hint of truth not being able to use my deed points to book other Wyndham locations?

 

[dioxide45]

It's all rubbish. Travel + Leisure is just the parent company that operates Club Wyndham. You own Club Wyndham you can do the same thing today that you did before Travel + Leisure became a thing related to Wyndham.

 

[WorldT]

Had my first owners update today with Club Wyndham.

They kept talking about Travel and Leisure(t&l) and that I was not part of it. They stated that most of owners are now part of it. If wanted to be part of it I would need to pay 15k while purchasing some CWA points. If I did not buy I may lose being able to reserve.

Of course I didn’t bite and the seller seemed upset I didn’t take advantage of this one time discount.

Anyone know if there is even a hint of truth not being able to use my deed points to book other Wyndham locations?

TRUTH? From a timeshare salesperson?

As @dioxide45 said above, whatever you were able to do before the new name showed up, you can still do.

 

[Danlop88]

I spent hours of research on timeshares and knew sales would basically lie. Even with all the research he was almost had me doubting. In the end I said if I lose all my access so be it. Was done in 30 minutes.

But can only imagine for the people who didn’t do any research and afraid to lose access to something they have already invested so much money into.

 

[dioxide45]

I spent hours of research on timeshares and knew sales would basically lie. Even with all the research he was almost had me doubting. In the end I said if I lose all my access so be it. Was done in 30 minutes.

But can only imagine for the people who didn’t do any research and afraid to lose access to something they have already invested so much money into.

I'm curious what the bribe (err gift) was to get you to attend. Trying to find out if they are low balling me vs. what they offer others.

 

[Danlop88]

I'm curious what the bribe (err gift) was to get you to attend. Trying to find out if they are low balling me vs. what they offer others.

I am at Clearwater , got 3 tickets for umbrella and chairs value total 105 and a ticket to the Aquariam. Really only did it because I knew it would be raining today in the morning. What was yours?

 

[dioxide45]

I am at Clearwater , got 3 tickets for umbrella and chairs value total 105 and a ticket to the Aquariam. Really only did it because I knew it would be raining today in the morning. What was yours?

30K WR and $100 Amex. They would have done 30K WR and $200 in Margaritaville vouchers but we wanted cash equivalent.

 

[Floridaman76]

I just checked in yesterday at Ocean Walk and they had a new angle to try to get me, "your Wyndham Rewards account is not linked to your Club Wyndham account". .

That's a new one

Ok, I don't know what that means and they told me that "you can get VIP upgrades when you book resorts through Wyndhm Rewards". I am skeptical and i'm not letting them touch my account, I didn't have time for the measly $150 they were offering anyway, so I guess I will never know.

 

[HitchHiker71]

30K WR and $100 Amex. They would have done 30K WR and $200 in Margaritaville vouchers but we wanted cash equivalent.

Were you at a MVC resort? (Margaritaville)


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[HitchHiker71]

I spent hours of research on timeshares and knew sales would basically lie. Even with all the research he was almost had me doubting. In the end I said if I lose all my access so be it. Was done in 30 minutes.

But can only imagine for the people who didn’t do any research and afraid to lose access to something they have already invested so much money into.

That’s the intent of the hard sell sales tactics used - FOMO. It’s always FOMO in some fashion. It’s always false. Our general advice here is to simply stop attending sales updates - and yes the sole purpose is to sell you more product - every single time you attend.


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[dioxide45]

Were you at a MVC resort? (Margaritaville)


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No. It was at Emerald Grande and PBC.

 

[dioxide45]

That’s the intent of the hard sell sales tactics used - FOMO. It’s always FOMO in some fashion. It’s always false. Our general advice here is to simply stop attending sales updates - and yes the sole purpose is to sell you more product - every single time you attend.


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No no no. Our presentation was to get our Club Wyndham Membership linked with Travel + Leisure. The guy that signed us up showed me on his computer screen that our member number was in the wrong spot and needed to be moved so we were linked correctly. I asked him to fix it right there but he said it could only be done “up stairs”. So we had to go to get it fixed. The sales guy didn’t do it so I’m sure we will get the same pitch to attend next time.

 

[Floridaman76]

I'm sure you know this, but there is no such thing as "linking your account" with Travel and Leisure.

It's hilarious trying to listen to them try to talk around this when you ask questions but it's all just a sales opportunity.