Okay. I think I have everything documented in the Google Sheet correctly.
Dumb ? Where do I find what a person can rent with Club points?
If you are a MVC Point owner or own enrolled weeks (in the future enrolled Vistana VOIs), you can rent Club Points from other owners. They cost about $0.70pp and can be transferred directly to your account from the owner that rents them to you. Check www.vacationpointexchange.com.
So if my 2 br ov is worth 6200 points in Marriott i could rent for 4340 dollars. Or i can keep it and rent it for at least that if not more for example my week 52s are worth 8075 points non OF at .70 per point definitely not worth it. I get over 7k for week 52.
The difference with renting points though is that once they are rented you are done. You simply transfer the points to the other owner and you have no further obligation. No worries about the owner cancelling, asking to cancel, asking to change dates, saying the room sucked, chargebacks. You completed your obligation when you transferred the points and it is up to the renter to find and book their accommodations. There is less risk in renting points than renting actual reservations.
I had the same amount points shown to me for platinum Kierland at 4050, I saw points convert for 200000 Sheraton flex to be 5840 point conversion, and Desert Willow gold 67500 points convert 2300.I have started to create a conversion tracker to keep track of the amount of points allocaetd to each VOI. I know everything right now is still speculation or information gleaned from attending a sales presentation, but at some point I suspect we will get official numbers. For now we can start tracking based on what we have learned in the other threads and update later if necessary. I don't have time at the moment to go through the other threads to update this sheet, creating it is as far as I got. But if anyone else wants to take a stab at it, feel free. The lined Google Sheet is open to comments (opening for edit gets messy). If you find something to add right click on the cell and select "Comment" then indicate what should be in the cell. Mainly looking to verify the breakdown of the sheet is correct but also to populate columns J, M and N. For resorts that are weeks based, I would prefer to populate N and calculate M. For Flex based items, it will just be M that gets populated to indicate the conversion of points. Based on the comments I can update the data in the actual cells.
Vistana_DC_ConversionRates
Sheet1 Resort Code,Resort Name,Phase,Company Name,City,State,Country,Region,Unit Size,View,Home Season,VSN Season,StarOptions,Conversion,Elected Club Points SDO,Sheraton Desert Oasis,Vistana,Scottsdale,AZ,USA,Domestic,2BR Lockoff,N/A,1-21, 50-52,Platinum Plus,148,000,2,375 SDO,Sheraton Desert Oasisdocs.google.com
What is an EC point?
Ah, that makes sense. I am not interested in producing a calculator to determine DC points to MFs ratios. That becomes an annual commitment to update and maintain as maintenance fees go up. One of those is already done on the Marriott side and perhaps at some point the Vistana resorts can be incorporated into that.It's DC point misspelled
Platinum season OF is worth 8,325 but if you own a fixed OF week 52, then it can convert to 10,925.
Christmas week will never be available at 12 months, as I understand it. In theory, if someone who owns week 52 decides not to use their unit one year (and books a different property at 8 months with StarOptions) it’s possible that some other owner could use SOs to snatch that week for that year. In practice I think that’s nearly impossible.
Thanks. I don't mind the odd discussion about conversion rates and comparisons as to what those are and how they might impact usage. I am trying to like all the posts so I know which ones I have tracked in the spreadsheet and where I last updated in the thread, but picking out the true conversion numbers is tricky. Though it helps if people can add comments to the spreadsheet as I get an email every time someone does. Many people update the sheet and never post here. Which is just fine by me.Whoop! Whoop! Off topic alert
Dioxide created this thread to gather statistical information about the DP value being assigned to each type of week to put in a spreadsheet for everyone to access. I figure we owe it to him to limit our posts to that information only.
Done
I understand that Coral Vista was sold as Home Options and not deeded units, is that correct? Can your HomeOptions also only be booked in the Gold Plus season? If so, it would seem you have a 38.77 conversion rate. Higher seasons might have better conversations?
