MVC "TOP. Travelers Opinion Panel" email

ilene13 said:

I took the survey also. The 2 nd question asks you how many points you have. We have 14,000 and my survey was like FASTTR's.

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Now that you mention this, they did ask if I knew how many points I had if I exchanged all of my weeks. My answer was 9225.

ilene13 said:

I took the survey also. The 2 nd question asks you how many points you have. We have 14,000 and my survey was like FASTTR's.

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We have 14,100 and I think ours was like Steven's. I tried to go back into it but it just gives you a "you've taken this survey" message, but I specifically remember 8,000 being mentioned.

I've been taking the surveys for months now but, alas, I'm not a sweepstakes winner. I have a little over 10,000 points. I think they are trying to entice Bucky into joining the Destination Club and the rest of us to add to it to have access to the 8 bedroom homes.

For me, it would have to be a better deal than VRBO. I'm sure it wouldn't be because there are a lot of safeguards going through Marriott than VRBO. For me, it wouldn't be worth a lot of extra money (points), but for others it might be attractive. People still rent timeshare weeks, however, on marriott.com for 2-3 times the cost of renting from a private owner.

I'd also have to compare the rental value for my weeks (subsequently converted to points) compared to the points cost of their vacation homes. I think if you look at it that way, the numbers won't work that well for most owners. Still, it will be an attractive option for some owners who want a different vacation experience every few years.

I only have 1500 points and my houses ranged from 8000-11000 points.

It is a good idea, but they would have to be priced in a similar range to what I could find from an agency or VRBO.

Just took the latest TOP (Travelers Opinion Panel) poll.

This one was focused on the possibility of MVC’s in city locations.

The cities they asked about were….
Atlanta, GA
Austin, TX
Boston, MA
Charleston, SC
Chicago, IL
Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
Los Angeles, CA
Miami, FL
Miami Beach, FK
Nashville, TN
New Orleans, LA
New York City, NY
Portland, OR
San Diego, CA
Savannah, GA
Seattle, WA
Washington, DC

They asked to rate the following as important….
Distance to main attractions
Accommodation type preferred: Hotel room, Hotel Suite with Partition, 1BR, 2BR
Kitchen type, if any (full fridge, stove, micro….1/2 fridge, no fridge, etc, etc)
WiFi importance
Owners only lounge importance
Housekeeping services
Concierge Services
Food available on site

Asked what you think it should be called….
MVC – City Collection
MVC - Getaway Collection
MVC
MVC – City Experiences
MVC – City Place

Then they asked a myriad of hypothetical combinations of all of the above, listing 3 different scinarios each time, with a different combination of points required for each, and they asked you to select the scenario you liked best from among the 3 shown to you. They asked that in different combo's of 3 sixteen different times.

They certainly seem to be focused on this City thing.

Interesting. I had received one or two of these survey emails from Marriott before but just did one for the first time today. They said it would take around 20 minutes but it took me about 5 minutes or so.

As for points, I don't own points and am not sure what my 2 weeks EOYO at Napili tower oceanfront would be worth…..

Fasttr--Interesting--same poll for me, but slightly differently city list--don't think Dallas/Ft Worth or Austin was mentioned on mine, but San Francisco was included.