What should I buy?

[Apwilliams2006]

1) Is there a vacation destination you wish to visit most of the time or on a regular basis? if so where?
We live in socal, so a beach near us would be ideal.

2) Do you want to visit your home resort at least half the time, or do you want to trade more than half the time?
Visit home resort half the time

3) What are your 5 top trade destinations?
Hawaii
Europe
East coast

4) How many people do you usually travel with - total, including yourself?
4

5) Can you travel any time, or are you locked into the school schedule?
Locked into a school schedule. My husband and I are teacher with school age children.

6) Can you make firm plans 12 or more mos. in advance?
Yes
7) Can you vacation for a full week at a time?
Yes
8) What level of accommodations do you prefer on a scale of 1 to 5 stars?
3
9) How much can you afford to spend upfront, without financing?
$500
10) How much can you afford to spend every year for a maintenance fee that will come due right after Christmas, and increase each year?
$1500
11) Are you a detail oriented planner?
Yes
12) Do you understand that once you buy a timeshare, it may be very difficult to sell or give away, and you are responsible for all fees, until you do?
Yes

Here are some questions you can answer to focus your timeshare wants/needs.

Suggestion - copy the questions below, and start a new thread entitled "My Survey" or "What should I buy?," or something similar, and answer the questions in a NEW thread.

1) Is there a vacation destination you wish to visit most of the time or on a regular basis? if so where?

2) Do you want to visit your home resort at least half the time, or do you want to trade more than half the time?

3) What are your 5 top trade destinations?

4) How many people do you usually travel with - total, including yourself?

5) Can you travel any time, or are you locked into the school schedule?

6) Can you make firm plans 12 or more mos. in advance?

7) Can you vacation for a full week at a time?

8) What level of accommodations do you prefer on a scale of 1 to 5 stars?

9) How much can you afford to spend upfront, without financing?

10) How much can you afford to spend every year for a maintenance fee that will come due right after Christmas, and increase each year?

11) Are you a detail oriented planner?

12) Do you understand that once you buy a timeshare, it may be very difficult to sell or give away, and you are responsible for all fees, until you do?

 

[jp10558]

1) Is there a vacation destination you wish to visit most of the time or on a regular basis? if so where?
We live in socal, so a beach near us would be ideal.

2) Do you want to visit your home resort at least half the time, or do you want to trade more than half the time?
Visit home resort half the time

3) What are your 5 top trade destinations?
Hawaii

Generally easy to find something, but harder for desirable beach locations.

Europe

Beach locations surprisingly available in RCI, but usually Americans want cities, which don't exist outside of the Europe only Hapimag IMHO (well, there's one Marriott in/near Paris).

East coast

Plenty easy via RCI.

4) How many people do you usually travel with - total, including yourself?
4

Can the kids sleep on a pull out sofa (i.e. is a 1BR going to be OK?) I think that's rather doable, but 2BR might be a stretch.

5) Can you travel any time, or are you locked into the school schedule?
Locked into a school schedule. My husband and I are teacher with school age children.

6) Can you make firm plans 12 or more mos. in advance?
Yes
7) Can you vacation for a full week at a time?
Yes
8) What level of accommodations do you prefer on a scale of 1 to 5 stars?
3
9) How much can you afford to spend upfront, without financing?
$500
10) How much can you afford to spend every year for a maintenance fee that will come due right after Christmas, and increase each year?
$1500
11) Are you a detail oriented planner?
Yes
12) Do you understand that once you buy a timeshare, it may be very difficult to sell or give away, and you are responsible for all fees, until you do?
Yes

Personally, this screams Wyndham to me. Look for a give-away of a lowish MF resort on the Free Timeshare's forum, watch the TUG2 listings too. Check e-bay. CWA might also work, but the ongoing MFs will be worse even though purchase price is free.

Wyndham has a Oceanside Pier location 30 min north or so of San Diego (I think). Wyndham has a bunch of Hawaii, and probably the best coverage of the East Coast of all the big systems. It also gets you RCI which adds more East Coast and some Europe beach locations. Points go for cheap to free. MFs can be right at that $1,500 easily for a 1BR in most places, and in some situations might get you a 2BR. You'll want to go to the Wyndham directory just posted on this site in the Wyndham area, or just the clubwyndham site to look at resorts and points charts. Figure out the points you need and then you can get a feel for the prices and MFs looking at ebay and TUG2. I'm guessing you might be looking at around 203,000pts to hit your MF. See if that gets what you need on the charts.

Generally with Wyndham, if you book right at 10 months, you can just get the cheapest points available, but ask on that forum for locations for people to comment on how hard it is to get a 1BR or 2BR in various locations you're interested in.

 

[Apwilliams2006]

Generally easy to find something, but harder for desirable beach locations.

Beach locations surprisingly available in RCI, but usually Americans want cities, which don't exist outside of the Europe only Hapimag IMHO (well, there's one Marriott in/near Paris).

Plenty easy via RCI.

Can the kids sleep on a pull out sofa (i.e. is a 1BR going to be OK?) I think that's rather doable, but 2BR might be a stretch.


Personally, this screams Wyndham to me. Look for a give-away of a lowish MF resort on the Free Timeshare's forum, watch the TUG2 listings too. Check e-bay. CWA might also work, but the ongoing MFs will be worse even though purchase price is free.

Wyndham has a Oceanside Pier location 30 min north or so of San Diego (I think). Wyndham has a bunch of Hawaii, and probably the best coverage of the East Coast of all the big systems. It also gets you RCI which adds more East Coast and some Europe beach locations. Points go for cheap to free. MFs can be right at that $1,500 easily for a 1BR in most places, and in some situations might get you a 2BR. You'll want to go to the Wyndham directory just posted on this site in the Wyndham area, or just the clubwyndham site to look at resorts and points charts. Figure out the points you need and then you can get a feel for the prices and MFs looking at ebay and TUG2. I'm guessing you might be looking at around 203,000pts to hit your MF. See if that gets what you need on the charts.

Generally with Wyndham, if you book right at 10 months, you can just get the cheapest points available, but ask on that forum for locations for people to comment on how hard it is to get a 1BR or 2BR in various locations you're interested in.

Thank you so much! Is Wyndham the same as Worldmark by Wyndham?

 

[jp10558]

Thank you so much! Is Wyndham the same as Worldmark by Wyndham?

No, Club Wyndham. Worldmark by Wyndham is a different system entirely and is West Coast focused, doesn't have much on the East Coast.