ZoNiE
TUG Member
Hi Folks, new here, but a TS owner for 15 yrs. I recently bought a value member pack of DRI so that I could combine and get better use of my TS. I was duped into doing this as they told me they would "buy" my old TS. Well, I can only really deposit it, so now I am paying MF on two weeks and get about a week and a half only. Kind of crappy on their part, but We're gonna make the best of it. What I really wanted was out of the old TS to begin with.
We get 6,000 for our old TS plus 2,500 for an annual total of 8,500 DRI points.
We are Club Select members, and they tell us we can use our points for Viking cruises if we are in Club Combo, which we have to buy *something* to convert.
The least amount I can pay, it seems, is $2,800 for 15,000 one time points that are MF free, (is this true?). This is supposed to get us into silver for a few years and convert us to CCombo permanently.
That's 18 cents a point. Is this a good deal, or is it just more good money after bad?
The appeal of this is that we can get Viking cruises for 2 people for a week for as little as 12K points and as much as 25K. So more than likely the 12K number will be nearly impossible to get, but may be possible as we tend to go off season anyway. I usually add vacation to business trips to offset my airfare anyway.
With our 8,500 points per year, that gives us 17K over two, which would seem that may be possible to cruise one year (12K) and have 5K or more left over for an exchange week elsewhere. We just got Maui for 3,500 points for 7 nights...
It seems on the surface that forgetting what I have already paid for my old TS and my 2,500 points, plus the $2,800 for 15K extra points, my roughly $1,600 per year spend on MF's will pay off pretty well, and I'll have those extra points to get a cruise pretty soon. If I get a cruise for 15K points, I basically paid $2,800 for a $6K cruise.
We've cruised Viking, they rock, but we spent $6K for one trip, so this seems to hold water, even if we only get a cruise every three years or so.
Comments?
We get 6,000 for our old TS plus 2,500 for an annual total of 8,500 DRI points.
We are Club Select members, and they tell us we can use our points for Viking cruises if we are in Club Combo, which we have to buy *something* to convert.
The least amount I can pay, it seems, is $2,800 for 15,000 one time points that are MF free, (is this true?). This is supposed to get us into silver for a few years and convert us to CCombo permanently.
That's 18 cents a point. Is this a good deal, or is it just more good money after bad?
The appeal of this is that we can get Viking cruises for 2 people for a week for as little as 12K points and as much as 25K. So more than likely the 12K number will be nearly impossible to get, but may be possible as we tend to go off season anyway. I usually add vacation to business trips to offset my airfare anyway.
With our 8,500 points per year, that gives us 17K over two, which would seem that may be possible to cruise one year (12K) and have 5K or more left over for an exchange week elsewhere. We just got Maui for 3,500 points for 7 nights...
It seems on the surface that forgetting what I have already paid for my old TS and my 2,500 points, plus the $2,800 for 15K extra points, my roughly $1,600 per year spend on MF's will pay off pretty well, and I'll have those extra points to get a cruise pretty soon. If I get a cruise for 15K points, I basically paid $2,800 for a $6K cruise.
We've cruised Viking, they rock, but we spent $6K for one trip, so this seems to hold water, even if we only get a cruise every three years or so.
Comments?
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