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Hi,
I've posted about this before and I know many others have...but I attended a Marriott sales presentation today (silly, I know!), and the salesman, who was an executive at the location, continuously told us that our Vistana timeshares would no longer be able to be converted to points AND that they would all lose the Sheraton/Westin brand names. I told him this was not true due to the license agreement and SPG affiliation agreement, but he insisted that those agreements were made with Starwood and not with Marriott. This is just false sales talk, right; they can't simply disregard the contractual agreements due to the Marriott merger?
I will say that the inability to convert timeshare points to Marriott Rewards points does not seem like a very positive sign, but I can't imagine that what the salesman said is true. He said they had an executive meeting a few months ago where there were told about this.
I've posted about this before and I know many others have...but I attended a Marriott sales presentation today (silly, I know!), and the salesman, who was an executive at the location, continuously told us that our Vistana timeshares would no longer be able to be converted to points AND that they would all lose the Sheraton/Westin brand names. I told him this was not true due to the license agreement and SPG affiliation agreement, but he insisted that those agreements were made with Starwood and not with Marriott. This is just false sales talk, right; they can't simply disregard the contractual agreements due to the Marriott merger?
I will say that the inability to convert timeshare points to Marriott Rewards points does not seem like a very positive sign, but I can't imagine that what the salesman said is true. He said they had an executive meeting a few months ago where there were told about this.