Update owner meeting at Midtown 45

[Pink_Warrior]

30 minute meeting. Easy peasy. Not so much.

1.) In April Presidential Reserve minimum will be 1.4 million up from 1 million. Resorts will decide if they will grandfather current PR owners.

2.) The point chart will be changing because up to now there has been a “construction” discount.

3.) Owners typically only go to meetings when they want to buy an extra 1-2 million PR points. This purchasing bonanza starts when owners are around 73 years (elder abuse much?)

4.) I had to leave NY early on the day of the blizzard. I was told that Wyndham didn’t refund points due to the storm because people were very happy to be stranded in NYC for the blizzard.

Sometimes it just boggles the mind.

 

[paxsarah]

Outlandish.

 

[chapjim]

Construction discount!

 

[Floridaman76]

#1 I have no idea and don't care

#2 and #3 are false

#4, like it or not, they are under no obligation to refund your points because it snows... come on now.

 

[TolmiePeak]

#4, like it or not, they are under no obligation to refund your points because it snows... come on now.

Exactly. That is nonsense talk.

 

[Sandi Bo]

30 minute meeting. Easy peasy. Not so much.

1.) In April Presidential Reserve minimum will be 1.4 million up from 1 million. Resorts will decide if they will grandfather current PR owners.

2.) The point chart will be changing because up to now there has been a “construction” discount.

3.) Owners typically only go to meetings when they want to buy an extra 1-2 million PR points. This purchasing bonanza starts when owners are around 73 years (elder abuse much?)

4.) I had to leave NY early on the day of the blizzard. I was told that Wyndham didn’t refund points due to the storm because people were very happy to be stranded in NYC for the blizzard.

Sometimes it just boggles the mind.

Wow, I wonder if any of that is true?

#4 - Worth a shot asking - they'd refund if you never checked in... airlines let you make 'free' changes. My nephew was quite relieved to catch on of the last trains out of the city! So naw, I don't people being happy to be stranded in NYC flies. NYC's had a tough winter. Then again, my sister lives right over the CT border - she felt the earthquake the other day (and seriously 1st thought was wondering if they had gotten bombed)

 

[Arimaas]

Wow, I wonder if any of that is true?

#4 - Worth a shot asking - they'd refund if you never checked in... airlines let you make 'free' changes. My nephew was quite relieved to catch on of the last trains out of the city! So naw, I don't people being happy to be stranded in NYC flies. NYC's had a tough winter. Then again, my sister lives right over the CT border - she felt the earthquake the other day (and seriously 1st thought was wondering if they had gotten bombed)

I felt the earthquake too. I was about a mile from the epicenter. And survived the blizzard! Been one heck of a winter here in NY.

 

[pondrasik]

Had an update in NYC earlier this week - none of this was mentioned.

 

[Pink_Warrior]

Wow, I wonder if any of that is true?

#4 - Worth a shot asking - they'd refund if you never checked in... airlines let you make 'free' changes. My nephew was quite relieved to catch on of the last trains out of the city! So naw, I don't people being happy to be stranded in NYC flies. NYC's had a tough winter. Then again, my sister lives right over the CT border - she felt the earthquake the other day (and seriously 1st thought was wondering if they had gotten bombed)

PR going up to 1.4 million is a very odd duck. Technically you have to own 1 million to be able to use points anywhere else in the system before 30 days out. So if at 1.4 million, that restriction would be placed on almost every PR owner that there is. My suspicion is that the saleswoman in NYC is lying to get older PR owners to buy another 400k PR points (which is really, really bad elder abuse.)

Or Wyndham does change it to 1.4 million and Wyndham is going to have to buy back everyone at 1 million PR since "she" said that grandfathering would be up to each resort (to get me started how this cannot meet a reasonableness check.)

I would imagine that they would refund points for the blizzard. Logistically to have a resort full (think mostly hotel rooms) with no food or the ability to get food would be the last thing that they would want.

However, I gave back two 4 bedroom presidential units at a resort when they were overbooked at Christmas. I cannot get Wyndham to give me those points back which is 460,000 points. And the records of all of my calls to owner's care have disappeared. Imagine that!

 

[paxsarah]

PR going up to 1.4 million is a very odd duck. Technically you have to own 1 million to be able to use points anywhere else in the system before 30 days out.

This is not what it says in the directory (Page 282-83 of the current directory). The directory states that for sub-1 million, the only PR benefit they receive is home resort booking in the 12-14 month window. But it says they also receive the benefits available to all Club Wyndham Plus owners - so 10-month booking at all Club Wyndham locations, regular VIP levels based on their developer points, etc.