Welk's - Where is our II account?

[seagila]

Excerpt from HRC's message that went out to HRC owners:

As part of bringing Welk Resorts under our leadership, you can now enjoy preferred exchange access to many of these properties through Interval International. This benefit expands your HRC membership to attractive vacation destinations such as San Diego, Santa Fe, and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, among others. HRC Owners can take advantage of a priority access period and a reduced exchange fee when reserving stays at available Welk Resorts properties.

Curious to find out if it would go both ways - i.e. Welk owners having a priority access period for HRC resorts. It only makes sense and I hope it does.

 

[alameda94501]

Excerpt from HRC's message that went out to HRC owners:

As part of bringing Welk Resorts under our leadership, you can now enjoy preferred exchange access to many of these properties through Interval International. This benefit expands your HRC membership to attractive vacation destinations such as San Diego, Santa Fe, and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, among others. HRC Owners can take advantage of a priority access period and a reduced exchange fee when reserving stays at available Welk Resorts properties.

Curious to find out if it would go both ways - i.e. Welk owners having a priority access period for HRC resorts. It only makes sense and I hope it does.

I had asked last month, but @Shankilicious couldn't see any Hyatt's to test the theory. The reduced exchange fee is a $55 discount for Welk. I'm not sure what the priority access period is, II is so opaque we'd have to see what a non-Hyatt owner sees.

Right now I can't see any availability for Welk: WKO DEO WMX LWR VLW WNL WRB

So much for the priority access period!

 

[alameda94501]

Whoops, I forgot the commas in my Welk search, sorry about the confusion. I have plenty of Welk's available (none at NorthStar, though). Here's the latest Welk I can book - in December 2023, which seems like a fairly strong access period:

The only strange thing is that I don't see any other 2023 weeks between January to November.

 

[bradj]

Excerpt from HRC's message that went out to HRC owners:

As part of bringing Welk Resorts under our leadership, you can now enjoy preferred exchange access to many of these properties through Interval International. This benefit expands your HRC membership to attractive vacation destinations such as San Diego, Santa Fe, and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, among others. HRC Owners can take advantage of a priority access period and a reduced exchange fee when reserving stays at available Welk Resorts properties.

Curious to find out if it would go both ways - i.e. Welk owners having a priority access period for HRC resorts. It only makes sense and I hope it does.

Just a suggestion to Welk owners. Buy a Hyatt Residence Club resale. You can buy one cheap enough. (Check Redweek) Not only would it help you understand the Hyatt program, but would give you much better access to Hyatt properties as a Hyatt owner. Securing a Hyatt property in a good season for a Hyatt property through II is next to impossible. Before you buy a resale,Hyatt used to offer promotional programs for a couple day stay, if you would attend a "pitch." Don't know if those are still available (check with the sales office in Key West) and they are mostly pitching their Portfolio Points program which you want to avoid altogether. In my opinion, the only program you would be interested in is the Hyatt Residence Club Legacy points program and not the Hyatt Portfolio Points program. Ask other Hyatt owners. FWIW