why does MAUI LEA AT MAUI HILL cost 116500 RCI Points 1bd for a week in 2025?

[gggllm]

I am trying understand why this property is so expensive. It seems the TPU isn't that high when reading posts saying RCI reducing TPU for the property, but the points seems crazy.

Is this related to the recent unfortunate fire or just RCI gets greedy?

Also this resort have crazy retail price for 7 days, that is more than 4k, so rci points still looks like a good deal.

 

[gggllm]

Another weird exchange I can see is the non-svc Paniolo Greens, it is at least 86k points, when adding tax + exchange fee + resort fee(about 500$?), it is almost the same as booking through booking.com or extra vacation which can be 1460 usd

 

[Luanne]

I have no idea. We own at Maui Hill and love the property. We trade through Trading Places Maui so there are no TPUs or points, it's just weeks.

They (Trading Places Maui) had a great recent offer for Maui Hill. They had 14 units for September 2023 they were offering up for rent, with a three bedroom going for $499 for the week. They all got snapped up within a day.

I do agree that if you want to rent a unit at Maui Hill going through Aston the rates are very high. Even as owners they are more than we want to pay if we are renting a week to go along with the week we own. But rental prices on all of Maui have really gotten nuts, and this was before the fires.

We rented a week in March of this year right next door at Maui Kamaole. One bedroom for $2900 all in. We are renting two weeks there next March to go along with one week at Maui Hill. We rented through Rentals Maui, a local company based in Kihei.

 

[rickandcindy23]

I am trying understand why this property is so expensive. It seems the TPU isn't that high when reading posts saying RCI reducing TPU for the property, but the points seems crazy.

Is this related to the recent unfortunate fire or just RCI gets greedy?

Also this resort have crazy retail price for 7 days, that is more than 4k, so rci points still looks like a good deal.

That's not so bad, as long as your MF's are under 1 cent per point. I agree that the point values have really increased, and so has the exchange fee. I have a big problem with $289 exchange fee. II is still $229.

Basically, I think RCI has such a limit on Maui inventory, and that is why this one is pointed higher. Plus, it's in weeks. so there seems to be no limit to what they charge there.

With Wyndham points, this exchange would only be 126K points. My Wyndham points are less than $6/ 1,000.

 

[bnoble]

Points and Weeks are fundamentally different currencies, and the same week can have wildly different relative values in each. There is no "why," it just is.

 

[gggllm]

That's not so bad, as long as your MF's are under 1 cent per point. I agree that the point values have really increased, and so has the exchange fee. I have a big problem with $289 exchange fee. II is still $229.

Basically, I think RCI has such a limit on Maui inventory, and that is why this one is pointed higher. Plus, it's in weeks. so there seems to be no limit to what they charge there.

With Wyndham points, this exchange would only be 126K points. My Wyndham points are less than $6/ 1,000.

I also have HGVC but I can't use HGVC to exchange to Maui Lea for some reason.

 

[Luanne]

I also have HGVC but I can't use HGVC to exchange to Maui Lea for some reason.

I know very little, like next to nothing, about HGVC. Do they carry units other than Hilton? The place that has the most Maui Hill inventory is Trading Places Maui.

 

[gggllm]

I know very little, like next to nothing, about HGVC. Do they carry units other than Hilton? The place that has the most Maui Hill inventory is Trading Places Maui.

I was talking about RCI using HGVC points, which should be a subset of RCI inverotires.

 

[bnoble]

The various RCI front ends do not always show exactly the same inventory. I don't think anyone knows why this is, but it definitely happens. I sometimes see different inventory between e.g. my Wyndham portal (which has access only to Weeks deposits) and my "regular" Weeks account.

I suspect it has to do with synchronization between the various systems rather than have them all work from a unified database. But I don't know that for sure.

 

[rickandcindy23]

I can tell you that as a Shell member, I can just generally see more Maui than I can with my other accounts. I have always seen a lot of inventory for Ka'anapali Beach resort through Shell but not through RCI Points or Wyndham's portal.

The high point value weeks for Maui Lea in RCI/ Wyndham are the 3 bedrooms. 300,000 points for a 3 bedroom makes for an expensive exchange, but if you have points to burn...

The 3 bedrooms are also high in Shell, Shell being about .30 per point X 7,500 points. Holy moly + exchange fee, but I do have points to burn.

 

[gggllm]

Interestingly, today, the points has increased to 131500