GrumpyDude
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... I'm a new Marriott DC owner having just purchased on a trip to Maui. I think they made a decent deal for me in tossing the $3,500 retail value of my 7 night rental bought wholesale @ $2,500 for a Napili Tower OF Studio. So our vacation $$ plus were applied to the purchase along with 20% off for their 30th anniv. special. It got my price/point into the mid $8 range.
I'm still in my 10 day review window. I had been eyeing Annual 2BR OF Lahaina/Napili Tower listings in the $28k - $35k range. Maui Ocean Club (MM1) is where we **really** like to go. Coming to an agreement, waiting out ROFR, new points system allegedly ( sales pitch?! ) making it more difficult for weeks availability, etc. I don't know.
I also have 15K WorldMark points that we've owned for years and have been finding it increasingly difficult to get into even the West Maui area with those. I paid for a room this year because it was out 20th and wanted to be sure what we were getting! I've also got a Diamond Sampler I have yet to use. I had bought that based on their Club Select system and their telling me I could deposit 2 WorldMark weeks in exchange for 7500 Diamond points each year via Club Select. While this sounds good I'm leery of a program that could be discontinued at will leaving me with a Diamond ownership worthless on its own without the Club Select capability to convert WorldMark weeks to Diamond.
With that in mind we chose to go with the Marriott system. I'll go use my Diamond Sampler and tell them no thanks, and likely try to sell the WorldMark points.
I'm still not sure though if the direct DC purchase was the best decision over picking up a floating week resale. I may start a new thread... I'm sure I'll get lots of opinions!
[Moderator Note: Good idea to break this out to a new thread, GrumpyDude! ]
I'm still in my 10 day review window. I had been eyeing Annual 2BR OF Lahaina/Napili Tower listings in the $28k - $35k range. Maui Ocean Club (MM1) is where we **really** like to go. Coming to an agreement, waiting out ROFR, new points system allegedly ( sales pitch?! ) making it more difficult for weeks availability, etc. I don't know.
I also have 15K WorldMark points that we've owned for years and have been finding it increasingly difficult to get into even the West Maui area with those. I paid for a room this year because it was out 20th and wanted to be sure what we were getting! I've also got a Diamond Sampler I have yet to use. I had bought that based on their Club Select system and their telling me I could deposit 2 WorldMark weeks in exchange for 7500 Diamond points each year via Club Select. While this sounds good I'm leery of a program that could be discontinued at will leaving me with a Diamond ownership worthless on its own without the Club Select capability to convert WorldMark weeks to Diamond.
With that in mind we chose to go with the Marriott system. I'll go use my Diamond Sampler and tell them no thanks, and likely try to sell the WorldMark points.
I'm still not sure though if the direct DC purchase was the best decision over picking up a floating week resale. I may start a new thread... I'm sure I'll get lots of opinions!
[Moderator Note: Good idea to break this out to a new thread, GrumpyDude! ]
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