I own Wyndham timeshare deeded. What is the difference in the Wyndham Access points compared to the deeded points?
If you own Club Wyndham points you have a contract at a resort for a certain number of points to use in the Wyndham system and you pay maintenance fees for that resort where your contract is. You have advance reservation priority (ARP) at that resort and can use your points at any other resort at 10 months.
If you own Club Wyndham Access, you have a contract for points usage, but your points are not attached only to one resort. There is a list of resorts assigned to the Club Wyndham Access pool of resorts and your ARP is eligible for any of those resorts and can be used at any other Wyndham resort at 10 months. Access owners are also Club Wyndham Plus owners. Your Access maintenance fees and any special assessments are an average of all the fees from the Access pool of resorts.
Why own Wyndham Access points over Wyndham deeded points? Do the different types of points combine? Say I own a deeded and bought some Wyndham Access points would they combine to make a reservation?
Yes, at 10 months the points would be good at any Wyndham resort and would combine with the other points in your account. As to why own an Access contract? Possibly to have an average MF instead of that of just a single resort. Even out the possibility of getting a surprise SA? On paper the Access system seems great, but in reality, they have limited inventory at each resort listed. If, for example, you want to use ARP get into BC for the 4th of July, they might have only 10 opportunities in the ARP pool and if you are not one of the first 10 to ask for it, you loose out. On the other hand, someone with a UDI Club Wyndham Plus contract at BC could still get in using ARP.
What is the difference in maintenance fees for the two?
For example, at Panama City (in the Access pool) my UDI Club Wyndham Plus MF are $3.31 per thousand points, but the Club Wyndham Access owners are paying an average of all the fees in the Access pool of resorts which is closer to $5.40 per thousand points owned. My maintenance fee is subject to going up as that resort is new and still subsidized by Wyndham. The $5.40 number might go up too, but not as much proportionately.
I have been looking on Ebay and just had these questions.
Wyndham has added Right of First Refusal to the Access contracts. Some people mistake that to mean added value to their purchase. All it means is that after you finish with your ownership, you must go to the trouble of finding someone to buy it or take it from you and then Wyndham has the right to take 30 days to decide if they will take it from your buyer for whatever price you have agreed on already.