We had to cancel our big Maui trip this year but we haven’t paid MF and not been able to travel. We cancelled our 3BR Hyatt Kaanapali reservation, which in the Hyatt system turns that week into 2950 points. We deposited those in II and have already exchanged for a studio week at Four Seasons Troon North (Scottsdale) in Nov, a 1BR week at Sedona Summit (April) and a 1BR week at Marriott Mountainside next Labor Day. We’ll get another 1BR week out of that deposit.
We‘re planning on using the weekend of our Hyatt High Sierra (Tahoe) ownership next year because if falls on Memorial Day weekend and we converted the rest to HRC points and booked 4 nights in a 1BR at Hyatt Pinon Pointe in Sedona and 2 nights in a 1BR at Hyatt Highlands Inn in Carmel.
We have our Barony Beach week booked and might rent it or deposit it with II, haven’t decided yet. Our DVC points are banked and traded privately for a condo in Oregon next year. Our Marriott Mountainside week is EOY even, so next year is not a useage year for us anyway. We have some 120 day restricted use Marriott DC points that we‘re hoping to use in Park City next September, in conjunction with our already-booked II exchange.
And... Our SBP is always deposited and traded a year in advance, so next years week has already been used and the MF paid. We won’t be out anything if we don’t do anything with our SBP next year.
As to travel, the only travel we’re really interested in now is condo style (ie full kitchen separate bedroom/living room and laundry) travel to driveable destinations. Timeshares work really well for how we plan to travel for the next year or so. We can happily avail ourselves of timeshares in Tahoe, Carmel, Sedona, Park City and AirBnB travel to National Parks in California, Arizona, Utah and Oregon.
How will timeshares be impacted? It’s hard to say. I think there are lots of folks who own timeshares in a fly-to location who are disenchanted right now. I bet many of them reevaluate timeshare ownership and decide to sell next year. I think there will also be those who figure out acceptable alternative uses of their TSs and realize TS travel meets their new needs to a “T”.