Yeah, the resorts with multiple phases got messy. If you have a number of points to report, you can put the details here. Or you can use one of the blank lines or rows that matches up best and add comments to the Google Sheet.
would you share this spreadsheet with me? Thank you.
Docbike’s spreadsheet includes maintenance fee etc. vs. post #1
This was always listed. The contract always showed the bonvoy point value even if the unit (in my case) is a mandatory resale that didn’t have the ability to convert to bonvoy points. The bonvoy amount was always more than the star option value.
Do you mean 286K number represents hotel Bonvoy points you'd get thru converting thru Abound ? Rather than converting from star options? It used to say on your Vistana VOI details how many Bonvoy pts your week is worth via original Vistana conversion.
You can't convert to Bonvoy points through Abound. It has to be done with your original ownership in the Vistana system.
I wish Marriott would update the Bonvoy pts on Vistana VOIs. Ours is very low based perhaps on valuations around 2010. I feel comparable units purchased later got more points. That's just a feeling, based on a few anecdotal numbers. E.g. a lockoff at same resort 95.7K options gets almost double pts what my 81K options unit gets. But then that could be disproportionate difference between prime vs high season.
The Bonvoy point conversion is a fixed rate per StarOption. You multiply them by 1.56 to get the amount of Bonvoy points. I do believe there are some ownership where the rate is slightly different but I don't know enough about those to comment or give specific examples. What specific ownership do you have that is getting a different rate than that?
Actually, this is off topic for this tracker forum so perhaps a new threat on this topic would be a better idea.
That’s simply not true. Each resort can have a different conversion to Bonvoy points (and maybe even different ownerships at the same resort can have different conversions.)
There is no good reason to assign the same number of points for oceanside and for oceanview at WLR.
I agree, they are really missing the mark here. But I wonder if they somehow aren't stuck with the alignment of StarOptions/HomeOptions and the Flex program (Westin Aventuras). Those ocean view and ocean side were allocated the same number of points when added to Aventuras, so to change them now for Abound may make things messy. Just thinking out loud really, but I suspect that is behind it and also why ocean view and resort view at the Hawaii properties has the same allocation.
Thanks. I made the update.
When added to Westin Flex, Westin Aventuras and Sheraton Flex, all the resorts were allocated the number of points based on the StarOptions/Homeoptions chart but they all got different allocations in Abound so I do not think this is the reason. I suspect it has more to do with the number of units owned by the developer for each view type.
It is not that you can sell it, it is stripped of important features and that makes it less valuable.
| The Westin Lagunamar Ocean Resort | Vistana | Cancun | Mexico | Mexico | 1BR Premium | Oceanview | Platinum Plus | 81,000 | 3,250 |
| The Westin Lagunamar Ocean Resort | Vistana | Cancun | Mexico | Mexico | 1BR Premium | Oceanview | Gold Plus | 44,000 | 2,275 |
They aren't allocating the weeks values based on a conversion from StarOptions. They have some other method in how they calculate the point values for weeks.
