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What should I expect to pay for 81000 StarOptions with Westin

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I have friends that own 2br Westin Kanapali, bought it when it was preconstruction and have never been there. They can't seem to plan far enough in advance. They have use staroptions for princeville and sheraton and exchanged 1 year for both a week in colorado and 1 week Avalon isla murales as well as a few nights in Cancun.

But they enjoy the TS and do whatever they want with it?

Glad to hear they enjoy TSing - they unlikely want to hear about the money they would have saved buying in the states since they are using their expensive SOs to exchange anyway - and saving even more $ buying resale... and more value buying Mandatory.

This is where researching TS systems can save a lot - by choosing one that best fits your needs - and being patient to find the best value - this would have saved $25-30K (in this case - for example - buying the same SOs resale at a Mandatory resort like WKV (west) or SVV (east)).

Fortunately - for SVO - they get folks when they are most vunerable (and sell beautiful vacation dreams).
Fortunately - for SVO buyers - there is TUG for those few who get this far.
(I say 'few' because I would guessimate that <1% ever get here)

I continually tell folks I meet that own TSs about TUG - and I don't think many have ever ventured here. Why is this? One reason I would imagine is related in some part to a type of 'buyers remorse'.
 

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i have bought 3 times from starwood,with no buyers remorse, i got 1 for a fabulous price hs and the other two originally bought eoy and then later upgraded to ey. got lots of starpoints,great trips but now that i know about TUG i will probably buy 1 resale and requal it with aruba when it opens. the info i got from TUG has been eye opening. but i would still have bought from the developer all the other times. but now my goal is to get to 5* and want to use all the weeks to semi-retire at great places.
 

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i have bought 3 times from starwood,with no buyers remorse, i got 1 for a fabulous price hs and the other two originally bought eoy and then later upgraded to ey. got lots of starpoints,great trips but now that i know about TUG i will probably buy 1 resale and requal it with aruba when it opens. the info i got from TUG has been eye opening. but i would still have bought from the developer all the other times. but now my goal is to get to 5* and want to use all the weeks to semi-retire at great places.
ahem... you found TUG...
would you have done the same if you had found TUG before... based on your posts - in hindsight - you probably would have bought resale - and then requaled. But I wasn't referring to you... I said 'related' - meaning - those who buy and then put it in the back of their mind. I know of 2 who bought (and even financed thru SVO - yikes!) and have barely considered anything about using the SVO/SVN system they were sold in the first place - this certainly is not you...
 

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buying resale and requalifying still has me scared, i do not want to be the one when they decide , ok the person before you was the last requal we are going to do, and with my luck that will happen. or they will requal and not let them be used for 5* and then i have all this "wonderful" (sarcastically) timeshare that i won't be able to use. but love starwood and can't wait for aruba. that is the east coast's version of hawaii. always nice breeze and great weather all year. fellow tuggers have a great holiday.
 

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buying resale and requalifying still has me scared, i do not want to be the one when they decide , ok the person before you was the last requal we are going to do, and with my luck that will happen. or they will requal and not let them be used for 5* and then i have all this "wonderful" (sarcastically) timeshare that i won't be able to use. but love starwood and can't wait for aruba. that is the east coast's version of hawaii. always nice breeze and great weather all year. fellow tuggers have a great holiday.

If you get the requal paperwork in order (as per thread) - they can't go back. All the paperwork - including the Elite level - is signed by SVO and you. They would have no motivation to do so. You have a good one also.
 
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