- Joined
- Jun 6, 2005
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- Location
- The Centennial State
- Resorts Owned
- Wyndham Founder; Disney OKW & SSR; Marriott's Willow Ridge and Shadow Ridge,Grand Chateau; Val Chatelle; Hono Koa OF (3); SBR(LOTS), SDO a few; Grand Palms(selling); WKORV-OF ,Westin Desert Willow.
The woman's name was Cindi, she was nice enough. Forgetful. I don't know how many times we told her we had Chairman's Club status already. She kept asking where we stay on the islands, specifically Maui, and I told her at least five times in 90 minutes that we stay at Westin Ka'anapali in our OWNED weeks. I didn't tell her about Hono Koa. Why confuse her even more? Anyone with the name Cindy or Cindi is going to be old, right?
The one big fib I heard that was glaring and I called her on it. She said we could book Westin Ka'anapali at 13+ months out. I said, "No, only owners can book our weeks at 12 months to 8 months out." She said this was a mistake a lot of people make because with status you can absolutely book (we have it already, I kept telling her we are grandfathered!) at 13 months out, and this is very little known by owners. Buy today and you can book Westin ahead of anyone else. Then she started talking about Flex and how it wasn't going to be available much longer and owners are coming in just to buy Flex and they are ready to buy today. Nah, I don't think so. Told her Flex wasn't worth anything to me. Didn't even let her talk about a price.
In comes the manager guy, and he has a different product to sell. He lays it all out for us on the white screen. The price for converting two of our Shadow Ridge platinum weeks was $56K, purchase required is 4,000 Abound points, 10% down, and if we put it on a brand new Marriott Bevy Amex credit card, we would get 550,000 points for signing up today and paying for our purchase with the card with the 100K Bonvoy point bonus. The card has 0% interest for 15 months. You know, it would be tempting to me, if we were about 10 years younger. I cannot spend the kids' inheritance like that. So wasteful, right? If he would convert all 4 of our Shadow Ridge weeks for that price, I would jump on it.
He did say that this is only something they can do once in a while and we are in luck because he can do it today (two enrolled for $56K and 4,000 Abound points). That would give us 10,000 points. That sounds okay, except the maintenance fees are going to kill that deal, especially compared to our current MF cost per Abound point with our Westin.
Rick and I just looked at each other, underwhelmed with the offer, and he was going to leave us to think about it, but I said there is no thinking, we won't be doing it.
Love Westin Princeville and we leave tomorrow, early, so we are packing our stuff today. We can just put a few things in the suitcase tomorrow morning before heading out. Going to enter some ongoing searches with our two bedrooms at Sheraton Broadway, which we have a plethora for deposit this year. I want to try for 1 bedrooms at Westin Princeville for summer of 2026. Might as well give it a try. I am doubtful, but I always have Shearwater I can book. Our oldest son is celebrating 20 years with his beautiful wife. They would love a trip to Kauai.
The one big fib I heard that was glaring and I called her on it. She said we could book Westin Ka'anapali at 13+ months out. I said, "No, only owners can book our weeks at 12 months to 8 months out." She said this was a mistake a lot of people make because with status you can absolutely book (we have it already, I kept telling her we are grandfathered!) at 13 months out, and this is very little known by owners. Buy today and you can book Westin ahead of anyone else. Then she started talking about Flex and how it wasn't going to be available much longer and owners are coming in just to buy Flex and they are ready to buy today. Nah, I don't think so. Told her Flex wasn't worth anything to me. Didn't even let her talk about a price.
In comes the manager guy, and he has a different product to sell. He lays it all out for us on the white screen. The price for converting two of our Shadow Ridge platinum weeks was $56K, purchase required is 4,000 Abound points, 10% down, and if we put it on a brand new Marriott Bevy Amex credit card, we would get 550,000 points for signing up today and paying for our purchase with the card with the 100K Bonvoy point bonus. The card has 0% interest for 15 months. You know, it would be tempting to me, if we were about 10 years younger. I cannot spend the kids' inheritance like that. So wasteful, right? If he would convert all 4 of our Shadow Ridge weeks for that price, I would jump on it.
He did say that this is only something they can do once in a while and we are in luck because he can do it today (two enrolled for $56K and 4,000 Abound points). That would give us 10,000 points. That sounds okay, except the maintenance fees are going to kill that deal, especially compared to our current MF cost per Abound point with our Westin.
Rick and I just looked at each other, underwhelmed with the offer, and he was going to leave us to think about it, but I said there is no thinking, we won't be doing it.
Love Westin Princeville and we leave tomorrow, early, so we are packing our stuff today. We can just put a few things in the suitcase tomorrow morning before heading out. Going to enter some ongoing searches with our two bedrooms at Sheraton Broadway, which we have a plethora for deposit this year. I want to try for 1 bedrooms at Westin Princeville for summer of 2026. Might as well give it a try. I am doubtful, but I always have Shearwater I can book. Our oldest son is celebrating 20 years with his beautiful wife. They would love a trip to Kauai.
