Wyndham is closing a handful of legacy resorts - dedicated chart/tracker located in the first post for this unfolding set of events

[Nwctskier]

appears there is some truth to this after all, that would be pretty shocking news!

am reaching out to someone who might be able to give an official answer!

Hi all, just got back from the Bentley Brook resort at the Jiminy Peak ski area, was told by an employee that the place is closed, the building is for sale. I was down in the locker room on the ground floor. Couldn't even park in the rear parking lot. Too bad, really nice place right at the base of the ski area.

 

[bamasteve]

Just logged into my Club Wyndham Account. I still see 2026 points from my two bankrupt resorts (Bay and Patriots Place). I suppose I could even make reservations???? My last maintenance fee was charged in Nov 2025. I also took the opportunity to look back at how maintenance fees have increases - I've seen a 27% increase in fees in a short three years. Wow. This is relation to a 12.45% general increase in the cost of goods and services in the USA per Gemini. Glad I'm getting out.

It was also billed the $34.13 in Wyndham monthly fees. As mentioned earlier - I suppose that I will have to pay this until my resort bankruptcies settle out. That's pretty crappy to charge this knowing they aren't going to be providing really any services to us. I still have two PIC weeks in my account.

 

[Floridaman76]

Just logged into my Club Wyndham Account. I still see 2026 points from my two bankrupt resorts (Bay and Patriots Place). I suppose I could even make reservations???? My last maintenance fee was charged in Nov 2025. I also took the opportunity to look back at how maintenance fees have increases - I've seen a 27% increase in fees in a short three years. Wow. This is relation to a 12.45% general increase in the cost of goods and services in the USA per Gemini. Glad I'm getting out.

It was also billed the $34.13 in Wyndham monthly fees. As mentioned earlier - I suppose that I will have to pay this until my resort bankruptcies settle out. That's pretty crappy to charge this knowing they aren't going to be providing really any services to us. I still have two PIC weeks in my account.

Book a vacation this weekend, use the points.

 

[Arimaas]

Just logged into my Club Wyndham Account. I still see 2026 points from my two bankrupt resorts (Bay and Patriots Place). I suppose I could even make reservations???? My last maintenance fee was charged in Nov 2025. I also took the opportunity to look back at how maintenance fees have increases - I've seen a 27% increase in fees in a short three years. Wow. This is relation to a 12.45% general increase in the cost of goods and services in the USA per Gemini. Glad I'm getting out.

It was also billed the $34.13 in Wyndham monthly fees. As mentioned earlier - I suppose that I will have to pay this until my resort bankruptcies settle out. That's pretty crappy to charge this knowing they aren't going to be providing really any services to us. I still have two PIC weeks in my account.

Just to let you know my November draft statement showed a charge for the "Wyndham monthly fees" which i assume you mean program fees for my closing resort, however, when the actual billing came around, it appears that I was not charged for it.

I do have to say, I have to think long and hard what I am going to do in the future with timeshare in general. The closing actually came at a decent time with changing in my vacation patterns, but the loss of proximity to NY locations, is making it harder for me to use my points and to give short stays to my family (they liked Shawnee for weekend trips when i had extra points).

 

[makersforme]

If there are resorts within a convenient driving distance you could go ahead and book something that you could use in the next few weeks to use up as many of those points as you can. If you're working maybe just weekend stays. MLK weekend is coming up quick for a long holiday weekend stay.

Not sure I want to risk making a reservation and driving to a resort to only be told no. Closest resort to me is likely Nashville or Branson of which I don't have a desire to be at any time soon. I can't do anything this weekend because according to my wife we are going furniture shopping and I don't want to do that either

 

[HitchHiker71]

Just logged into my Club Wyndham Account. I still see 2026 points from my two bankrupt resorts (Bay and Patriots Place). I suppose I could even make reservations???? My last maintenance fee was charged in Nov 2025. I also took the opportunity to look back at how maintenance fees have increases - I've seen a 27% increase in fees in a short three years. Wow. This is relation to a 12.45% general increase in the cost of goods and services in the USA per Gemini. Glad I'm getting out.

It was also billed the $34.13 in Wyndham monthly fees. As mentioned earlier - I suppose that I will have to pay this until my resort bankruptcies settle out. That's pretty crappy to charge this knowing they aren't going to be providing really any services to us. I still have two PIC weeks in my account.

How many PIC points do you own? Is that included in the $34.13? If so, at $0.77/1000 for PFs if you own 508k PIC points, that’s $32.60/month alone for example.


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[bamasteve]

How many PIC points do you own? Is that included in the $34.13? If so, at $0.77/1000 for PFs if you own 508k PIC points, that’s $32.60/month alone for example.


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That's a very interesting thought. I have 210,000 PIC Points. I would not really be interested in maintaining those in Wyndham and paying a fee. Wouldn't you think they also would want to be done with my PIC weeks? Or maybe it will be the hook to keep me tied to Wyndham and be hounded with future sales pitches?

 

[rickandcindy23]

Who is going to handle the deed transfers out of the owners' names for these legacy weeks? Hilarious to think Wyndham is doing it. More likely it will be done by attorneys. Wyndham cannot do a deed transfer in quick time, and the volume will be unbelievable.

 

[Floridaman76]

Who is going to handle the deed transfers out of the owners' names for these legacy weeks? Hilarious to think Wyndham is doing it. More likely it will be done by attorneys. Wyndham cannot do a deed transfer in quick time, and the volume will be unbelievable.

I could almost guarantee they are subcontracting that out to a third party.

Remember, those expenses will "come off the top", so owners get back as little as possible.

This entire endeavor is about enriching the "administrative cronies" in companies owned by "friends of Wyndham executives", and minimizing Wyndham's current and future liabilities of all kinds.

That's why you will find the same boilerplate form letters duplicated as nauseum and billed out as original work times THOUSANDS. Which truthfully, probably AI did.

Follow the money

 

[chapjim]

I could almost guarantee they are subcontracting that out to a third party.

Remember, those expenses will "come off the top", so owners get back as little as possible.

This entire endeavor is about enriching the "administrative cronies" in companies owned by "friends of Wyndham executives", and minimizing Wyndham's current and future liabilities of all kinds.

That's why you will find the same boilerplate form letters duplicated as nauseum and billed out as original work times THOUSANDS. Which truthfully, probably AI did.

Follow the money

I think Cindy would be very happy to know that deed transfers will be done by a contractor.

Of course expenses will come "off the top." Where else would they come from? The bankruptcy judge will require all expenses be paid before anything goes to owners, the largest of which is Wyndham.

The same form letters are probably used because they are familiar to the parties and because they have been successfully used in the past. Do you think using newly drafted form letters should be a requirement? Do you know they are billed as original work "times THOUSANDS? Or that they are AI letters?

Your discontent is affecting your rationality.

 

[comicbookman]

I think Cindy would be very happy to know that deed transfers will be done by a contractor.

Of course expenses will come "off the top." Where else would they come from? The bankruptcy judge will require all expenses be paid before anything goes to owners, the largest of which is Wyndham.

The same form letters are probably used because they are familiar to the parties and because they have been successfully used in the past. Do you think using newly drafted form letters should be a requirement? Do you know they are billed as original work "times THOUSANDS? Or that they are AI letters?

Your discontent is affecting your rationality.

Actually, I would expect Wyndham is bearing the expense of the Transfers, as it benefits them, not the HOA as a representative of the owners.

 

[buckeye479]

Is it? I don't think so, not in my case. I deal with a large corporation like Wyndham because it has around 100+ locations I can choose from, some of which I already knew I'd return to again and again. But with a large corporation like Wyndham I expect even more to be treated like a number, to receive a canned solution not tailored to my individual needs, to pretty much rely on myself to know every detail and only reach out to their generalist customer service after I've exhausted every other option to find an answer I need. I wouldn't expect any corporation to protect me and handle all the details for me.

I can only say what I've seen when a handful of other HOAs have closed or left Club Wyndham (one at Villa Rica, one a year or two ago at Pagosa, I think one at Fairfield Harbour, the affiliate Club Destin), and those owners had surely experienced the same upsells to VIP levels and the like, and they got no swap offer. They lost their points, and VIP levels where applicable. Who cares if owners could prove the reasons they purchased were upsells to VIP? Nowhere in the governing docs is there an exception to the processes for what happens when a resort leaves the points system because someone wanted the next VIP level. Wyndham certainly didn't offer CWA swaps this time out of the goodness of their heart - it was definitely a business decision - but they did have a choice. They could even have weathered the bad PR as long as the financial bottom line was solid. If they cared so much about bad PR they'd be handling the communications element of these closures much better. So I'm guessing it was more of a financial bottom line decision than a PR one.

I'd like to comment about the loss of VIP level in past closures.
We had a contract at Pagosa Mountain Meadows, which ceased operations in December 2024. We did NOT lose our status. We are currently down to 828,000 points, and we still have our platinum status. It is our understanding that this time we would have lost our status if we had not requested a swap.

Perhaps there is logic in that - Maybe Wyndham decided not to take the status away when no swap was offered, so that THEY didn't take it away.
This time around, they offer the swap, so if we lose the status, then WE have made the choice to lose our status.

 

[buckeye479]

If there are resorts within a convenient driving distance you could go ahead and book something that you could use in the next few weeks to use up as many of those points as you can. If you're working maybe just weekend stays. MLK weekend is coming up quick for a long holiday weekend stay.

I have recently read a couple of posts where people have said "I was awarded 2026 points"
That made me wonder if there are different types of contracts with different rules for granting points. We received our 2026 points in 2024. On Jan 1 2026, we were awarded our 2028 points. Are there multiple schemes for awarding the annual allotment of points?

Also - for anyone who would want to try to use those 2026 points knowing that they are linked to a contract that is going away. The important fact is not whether or not you could use the points. With Wyndham's incompetence, I'll bet that you could make a reservation and use the points.
What is important is whether or not you paid to for them. At BEST, when Whyndham gets around to taking the points away, you will have a negative balance, and you will have to pay for those points that you used. At worst, Wyndham could claim that you knew, or should have known, that those points were not real, and make you pay for the points and some sort of fee or penalty.

 

[paxsarah]

I'd like to comment about the loss of VIP level in past closures.
We had a contract at Pagosa Mountain Meadows, which ceased operations in December 2024. We did NOT lose our status. We are currently down to 828,000 points, and we still have our platinum status. It is our understanding that this time we would have lost our status if we had not requested a swap.

Perhaps there is logic in that - Maybe Wyndham decided not to take the status away when no swap was offered, so that THEY didn't take it away.
This time around, they offer the swap, so if we lose the status, then WE have made the choice to lose our status.

Interesting - that seems like a one-time thing. I know that owners at Villa Rica lost status a few years ago when the one HOA there decided to sell. Maybe Wyndham started leaning a different way by the time Mountain Meadows left the system, which I think was the last departure before the current group. Did Wyndham actually put in writing that VIP levels would be retained, or did it quietly just never go away?

 

[buckeye479]

My wife's father lives at Fairfield Glade. It was a wonderful place to stay while visiting him.
This was posted outside of the office when she stopped to see him on her way home from Bonnet Creek.

 

[buckeye479]

Interesting - that seems like a one-time thing. I know that owners at Villa Rica lost status a few years ago when the one HOA there decided to sell. Maybe Wyndham started leaning a different way by the time Mountain Meadows left the system, which I think was the last departure before the current group. Did Wyndham actually put in writing that VIP levels would be retained, or did it quietly just never go away?

We did not get anything in writing that I know about. But the fact that we still have Platinum at 828,000 speaks for itself - so far..
I was sort of expecting that when I logged in in Jan 2026, I was going to see that we were downgraded.
Also will not be at all surprised if we lose our status when they get around to making all of the adjustments from this round of closures.
Nothing that Wyndham does will ever be a complete surprise.

 

[paxsarah]

We did not get anything in writing that I know about. But the fact that we still have Platinum at 828,000 speaks for itself - so far..

There were a lot of unwritten benefits (e.g. resale points receiving VIP benefits, owners with biennial converted fixed weeks that double counted toward VIP) that spoke for themselves until they didn’t anymore. May the odds be ever in your favor!

 

[Floridaman76]

There were a lot of unwritten benefits (e.g. resale points receiving VIP benefits, owners with biennial converted fixed weeks that double counted toward VIP) that spoke for themselves until they didn’t anymore. May the odds be ever in your favor!

I had a resale transaction a few years back which the new points I got midway through the use year were developer points, but when my new use year started, all of that contract's points were resale (as they were supposed to be). And this never affected my VIP level. Take the positives when they come your way. As few as they are.

 

[HitchHiker71]

We did not get anything in writing that I know about. But the fact that we still have Platinum at 828,000 speaks for itself - so far..
I was sort of expecting that when I logged in in Jan 2026, I was going to see that we were downgraded.
Also will not be at all surprised if we lose our status when they get around to making all of the adjustments from this round of closures.
Nothing that Wyndham does will ever be a complete surprise.

When did these decrements you're referring to occur? What were the VIP tier points thresholds at the time you actually became a VIPP owner? This information matters if, for example, 828k points still qualified you for VIPP under the legacy VIP points thresholds. If you were left with 828k, points you may still have qualified for VIPP under the legacy program thresholds is my point, assuming for a moment that the legacy VIPP threshold under which your account initially qualified for VIPP was only 800k points for example.

 

[paxsarah]

This information matters if, for example, 828k points still qualified you for VIPP under the legacy VIP points thresholds.

Platinum was never lower than 1,000,000.

 

[majkirk]

Have received a bundle of stuff from Patriot's Place now in bankruptcy. The unit we have involved my inlaws who passed and we took over ownership. That in itself was tough to do but we now have our names and our deceased parents and a brother in law getting mail for how we want to divest. I called the Filipino call center that Wyndham has engaged and could get no one who could help me.
Now we have five packages of forms. I am not a lawyer and it is beyond my comprehension. Has someone navigated through this program that can help me?
Just want to make sure the paperwork is in the bankrupt file to get my $10 that I will probably receive with the program.
From reading the annual Wyndham report pretty well figure they are going to buy everything for pennies on the dollar and turn them into rentals.
Any help much appreciated,

 

[HitchHiker71]

Platinum was never lower than 1,000,000.

Good to know - I figured way back when the program was first introduced, it would have been less than 1M points, especially given VIPG was only 500k at one point in time, but I guess not!