AshleenandJim
newbie
It's been about a month since we've been active on this forum. We went to a Wyndham sales presentation/vacation thing in Sedona, back in July, and learned about the points system. Then we started doing a lot of research, including coming to this forum and getting a lot of great info from y'all. We were thinking pretty seriously about buying Wyndham points on the secondary market.
Last night we went to a WorldMark presentation here in Tucson, just to get more info about the whole system and the relationships. (We got $75 worth of gift cards at a sporting goods store and a 3-day Vegas vacation we've yet to schedule, but those were really incidental, and we'd have gone to the presentation without them; indeed, we actually forgot about them till the salesman reminded us as we were leaving!)
We've read somewhere here that Wyndham's VIP perks aren't written into the contract, but at the presentation yesterday, saw that the WorldMark extras are contractual. For that reason, and because WorldMark seems to focus on the West Coast while there's more Wyndham in the East, and a little bit because we liked the WorldMark sales guy a little better than the Wyndham one, we ended up buying the minimum number of credits (6,000) we needed for a "premium" ownership. Haven't even registered on the WorldMark site yet; came here first!
Now we're thinking we might not need any Wyndham points, although we do plan to get additional WorldMark credits on the secondary market. (The Wyndham salesman, when we mentioned "used points" to him, was pretty snippy about it. The WorldMark people agreed that it was a pretty good idea, as long as we have some new points to access the TravelShare and other benefits.)
Any thoughts about any of this?
-- Ashleen and Jim
Last night we went to a WorldMark presentation here in Tucson, just to get more info about the whole system and the relationships. (We got $75 worth of gift cards at a sporting goods store and a 3-day Vegas vacation we've yet to schedule, but those were really incidental, and we'd have gone to the presentation without them; indeed, we actually forgot about them till the salesman reminded us as we were leaving!)
We've read somewhere here that Wyndham's VIP perks aren't written into the contract, but at the presentation yesterday, saw that the WorldMark extras are contractual. For that reason, and because WorldMark seems to focus on the West Coast while there's more Wyndham in the East, and a little bit because we liked the WorldMark sales guy a little better than the Wyndham one, we ended up buying the minimum number of credits (6,000) we needed for a "premium" ownership. Haven't even registered on the WorldMark site yet; came here first!
Now we're thinking we might not need any Wyndham points, although we do plan to get additional WorldMark credits on the secondary market. (The Wyndham salesman, when we mentioned "used points" to him, was pretty snippy about it. The WorldMark people agreed that it was a pretty good idea, as long as we have some new points to access the TravelShare and other benefits.)
Any thoughts about any of this?
-- Ashleen and Jim