Club Intrawest does a nice "show" and his a nice place if you like the location -- ski-in ski-out at Blackcomb Mtn. base. We prefer skiing Whistler Mountain, and prefer staying in Whistler Village (2 TSs there), so it doesn't do anything for us. Ditto their place at Tremblant, where they're a shuttle-bus away from all the slopeside in-Village accommodations that we prefer. But the premiums are nice!
I've taken the owner's tours of WJ/RVC and Mountainside Lodge/SVC. They were both nice enough, and give good premiums, too. My cousin took WJ's "off-the-street" tour, and he described a very high-pressure "lock the doors" kind of performance. It may depend on the individual sales folks, of course.
The developer's deal on points from Shell VC seem very expensive, while the one from Raintree VC (at least for existing WJ owners) doesn't seem much more expensive than the "standard" resale market. For any level of membership (better "weeks" get higher RVC levels), it's $6000-odd from RVC to add RVC points to your deeded "forever" TS week, and your MF stays the same. But only if you sign up that day!
It's exactly twice that much, $12000-odd, otherwise. We've got an older 1-BR in the Village (Whistlerview) in week 4, and that would qualify us for "platinum" = 72,000 RVC points. (I didn't bite, but it didn't seem outrageous, unlike SVC, which wanted bigger money AND a MF increase, for less value.)
Sunterra Pacific owns the Clock Tower condo-hotel in Whistler Village. Great spot, but they don't do tours or promotional stays in Whistler. (We did one of theirs in South Lake Tahoe a while back; nifty deal! About $50/night for a 2BR 2BA palace, and the "show" was about an hour with the agent and me exchanging info about the resale market and the tricks to get in for cheap!)
There's also Worldmark and Whistler Vacation Club and others that might have tours or promo stays, but I'm not familiar with them, except that I've stayed in a WJ unit in the Cascade Lodge, which also has lots of WM units.
I've toyed with the idea of spending a free week in Whistler by arranging consecutive 2-day and 3-day promo stays, or arranging that kind of a week for somebody else. Never done it. . .
Norm in Toronto