Called today to make my March 2024 reservation. Just a refresher for those who have not read the entire thread, any week purchased from Westgate after sometime around 2009 has a has a resale restrictions that only allows the resale purchaser to reserve their stay 60 days in advance of check-in. Obviously, that would make it virtually impossible to reserve a high demand ski week. My resale week was originally sold prior to that, so does not contain any restrictions. Although, my online account has a restriction placed on it and I have to call Owners Relations every year to reserve my week. Owners Relations is option #4 when you call in and is different than the Vacation Specialist (option 3) you would normally call to reserve a week.
My first call today was to the Vacations Specialist and she was not able to reserve my week to the restriction and had no way for her to get around it. She told me to call Owner Relations.
When calling Owner Relations things went as smoothly as they possibly could, other the the 20 minutes I was on hold. I usually get a little pushback and have to remind them of a note on my account from 2021 by Richard from Westgate Corporate offices confirming that I am allowed to make my reservations 11 months in advance. Today I just told the Owner Relations that I was calling to reserve my week and she made the reservation without asking any questions. I don't know if she saw the note on my account or not, but there was no hesitation in making my reservation.
I did have to pay the estimated fees for 2004, which isn't that big of a deal. They have threatened about requiring the prepaying a few years back when I called, but this the first time the followed through on it.
On a side note, when I was there last month, I was invited to an owners update and here was my response
Thank you for your email. However, I attended one of these “owner updates” when I was here two years ago. Since I am a resale owner, the person who I meet with was belligerent towards me and told more lies than I could count. He also, threatened to make it as difficult as possible for me to reserve my week in the future since I didn’t agree to pay Westgate $20,000.
So, have no intention of wasting one second of my vacation time listening to the Westgate lies and B.S. I enjoy my stays here, but want absolutely nothing to do with those of you who work in the sales department.
Thanks and have a great evening