Best Trading week in Orlando

bnoble said:

Really. It's not peak season in terms of point costs for either DVC or Wyndham. It's a shoulder week in peak season for the Cypress Pointes (Diamond time starts on week 21.)

If I were buying in Orlando, I wouldn't buy to trade. If I was buying to trade, I would not buy anything that wasn't bright bright bright red. Week 21 ain't that.

But, don't take my word for it. JLB above says that Week 23 was at least one week too early. If that's one week too early, what does that make Week 21?

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I own week 21 at Vacation Village at Parkway. It is a RCI Points account but it is a medium demand week. A 2-bedroom in high demand would cost 92,500 or so RCI points while the same unit during week 21 will cost 74,000 or so RCI Points. So if the cost of Points is an indicator, it is a lower demand week. I've never had a problem getting week 21. It is a nice week to go Orlando though as it has usually been during the Star Wars weekends at MGM and the temperatures are still not too hot but plenty warm to use the pools and water parks.

Well, in the interests of full disclosure, I'm going during week 21 this year myself; I snagged a 1BR OKW with an AC. Unfortunately, it looks as though Star Wars Weekends are now more or less permanently ensconced in June.

bnoble said:

Really. It's not peak season in terms of point costs for either DVC or Wyndham. It's a shoulder week in peak season for the Cypress Pointes (Diamond time starts on week 21.)

If I were buying in Orlando, I wouldn't buy to trade. If I was buying to trade, I would not buy anything that wasn't bright bright bright red. Week 21 ain't that.

But, don't take my word for it. JLB above says that Week 23 was at least one week too early. If that's one week too early, what does that make Week 21?

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I agree. I've never had a problem getting week 21 but if I were buying a week for the purpose of trading or getting maximum points, this would not be a good week. Having learned this, most of my weeks that I have purchased recently have been weeks 51 or 52 but this changes depending on demand for the resort (i.e. area as other locations in the country have different demands than does Florida) as I will check out the highest points weeks (all my units are now points-based). Weeks-based units are not as easy to check but the points-based system provide a good indicator of demand.

As an aside; Week 21 is a nice week to go Orlando though as it has usually been during the Star Wars weekends at MGM and the temperatures are still not too hot but plenty warm to use the pools and water parks. Just because a week is a low demand for others doesn't mean that different individuals haven't placed a higher demand on that week. Each individual is different. For example, week 50 is a low demand week just before Christmas but I much prefer going during week 50 than week 51 or 52. Others enjoy Christmas week better.

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mishpat said:

Thanks for all the advice. Once available to me, I now will secure either Week 51 or week 52 in 2008 at my home resort, Sheraton Vistana 2 bed/sleeps 8 and then deposit it with II seeking some great hard to get locale such as Westin St John, Lodges at Cresthaven or Ponds at Foxhollow. Am I dreaming or is this at all possible? A great trader is supposed to match up with like property is done at least one year out. Or so I keep reading outside of TUG

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My advice is to do an open search for at least 6 months to up to 2 years for the places you want. Call frequently to check on your on going search and you will get what you want. (I trade my Sheraton Vistana 2-bed for these) I always get good trades but my best like Hawaii and Aruba I had an ongoing search on for almost 6 months before I get a hit. Those are places where I don't care when the reservation is, I will drop everything to go...hee hee

Luck and being there at the right time.

Talk about trading power. My wife and I are going to England the summer of 09 to stay with friends. About 2 months ago I thought I would use my Vistana week 52 to see if I could pull anything along the Normandy coast of France while we were there. I put in a search and lo & behold a week on the French Riviera pops up. I grabbed it.

Interestingly, I used 2 diff weeks 52 at Vistana...one an 09 week and the other an 010 week both deposited a year in advance. Only the 010 week could pull it. Even the RCI rep didn't understand why.

IMHO from experience using week 51 & 52, week 52 is the stronger trader.

Dave

Uh . . . 3 weeks too early.

Sometimes folks here like other folks here to explain themselves, to confirm from whence they come, and why they say what they say.

Our first years of timesharing was in Orlando during the red, white and blue only days, those days when it made it really easy for the salespeople to spin their yarns.

We bought Week 23 when red started Week 24 (yes, it actually was that way once, before it was red all year). Within one year 23 was red, and I was really proud of how smart I was (before the days of Internet forums, when folks could feel they were smart when they were really dumb).

Of course, even being red, 23 still sucked. It continue to for the duration that we owned it. At one point an unimpeachable source within RCI told me it was one week too early. Our 28 and 29 did a little better.

That is how a came to say what I say.

bnoble said:

But, don't take my word for it. JLB above says that Week 23 was at least one week too early. If that's one week too early, what does that make Week 21?

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