Housekeeping Fees

budburn1 · Jan 24, 2015

I am a new owner and got 216,000 bonus points when I bought. With it came 216 housekeeping points. If I use all my housekeeping fees with my basic contract (84,000 points) will the HK points from my future visits be deducted from the 216?

uscav8r · Jan 24, 2015

84K points does not get you much, but as to your HK question, you will get 84 HK upon annual renewal. KH do not carryover into subsequent years. I am not versed in the extra HK you get from the bonus points; they could be good for as long as the bonus points are good, but you'll have to ask Wyndham.

How new are you? When did you purchase the contract and is it an Annual renewal or every-other-year? If you are within the recission period, many on here will recommend you IMMEDIATELY rescind. You can find resale contracts for much cheaper than for what Wyndham is selling them.

CruiseGuy · Jan 24, 2015

As long as the bonus points are available for use during the period that you book your reservation, if you need additional housekeeping points they should come from those bonus points.

You need to be careful about making short reservations (less than a week) because they will use up your housekeeping points fast. With only 84,000 points, unless you book studios, you won't have enough housekeeping points for two short stays.

budburn1 · Jan 24, 2015

Housekeeping Points

Thanks, betty helpful. As a Silver member no UK points were charged for my first reservation of 5 days.

puppymommo · Jan 24, 2015

I don't think it is automatic, you have a choice. When I made a reservation recently without enough HK, I was given the option whether to take from my next year's HK or purchase HK from Wyndham (very expensive). I was given the option both online and via phone with a VC.

Shorter stays really eat up the HK.

55plus · Jan 24, 2015

Buy Resell Next Time

Here's some advise. If you want to add additional points to your Wyndham membership, buy resell on the secondary market. You got the bonus points from Wyndham as a carrot to hook you on timeshare stays.

If you like the idea of condos, then buy resell and save yourself tens of thousands of dollars. This website (TUG) or eBay are good places to buy. If you are not sure about an eBay seller ask us on TUG. You can buy Wyndham point contracts for pennies on the dollar.

Are you Navy? I'm Air Force...

budburn1 · Jan 24, 2015

HK Points

No, I am not Military. At 82 and with a Pleasure Way RV, I don't know why my wife and Ipurchased a timeshare. However, it is what it is and we feel we can best use our points with less than a week stay and use our RV foto fill out the week. Wrong? Thanks for your insight.

bud

puppymommo · Jan 24, 2015

If you are going to do short stays, you will make the most use of your points staying Sunday - Thursdays. Fridays and Saturdays take a lot more points.

Also, there are places usually "legacy" (older) resorts where you can stay for a full week for 84k or less during low season (varies by location).

bnoble · Jan 24, 2015

The other way to think about 84K is to Pool the points every year. The HK credits get put into the pool as well, and that lets you balance HK-heavy reservations with those that use fewer HK credits. There is a modest fee to Pool, but with a small account like this it is probably worth doing because it adds a lot of flexibility.

okkid · Jan 27, 2015

Check and see if you are considered VIP

Something to look into. Is that your bonus points and annual/biannual points add up to 300 000 pts. you may want to call Wyndham to see if that qualifies you as VIP til the expiration of the bonus pts. I know Wyndham uses that as a sales tactic to get to people to buy developer points. They'll give you enough bonus points so you get up to 300K and be VIP until the expiration of the bonus points. If you are VIP then you have unlimited housekeeping points. They like to do that to get you to buy and give you a taste of the VIP so that they can hustle you to buy more points later to get to VIP. Anyways something to look into and ask as it looks to me that is why they gave you that # of bonus pts.

vacationhopeful · Jan 27, 2015

okkid said:
Something to look into. Is that your bonus points and annual/biannual points add up to 300 000 pts. you may want to call Wyndham to see if that qualifies you as VIP til the expiration of the bonus pts. I know Wyndham uses that as a sales tactic to get to people to buy developer points. They'll give you enough bonus points so you get up to 300K and be VIP until the expiration of the bonus points. If you are VIP then you have unlimited housekeeping points. They like to do that to get you to buy and give you a taste of the VIP so that they can hustle you to buy more points later to get to VIP. Anyways something to look into and ask as it looks to me that is why they gave you that # of bonus pts.

VIP is now 400,000; 700,000 and 1,000,000 for the point level.

budburn1 · Jan 31, 2015

Bonus Pointd

On another subject: I have 216,000 bonus points I will not use by November 31expiration. What is my opinion?

Bud

55plus · Jan 31, 2015

budburn1 said:
On another subject: I have 216,000 bonus points I will not use by November 31expiration. What is my opinion?

Bud

I'm not sure, but I think they will expire. Seeing that you are in North Carolina my advice is to take some time off work and go to Myrtle Beach. Book your reservations soon.

jebloomquist · Jan 31, 2015

budburn1 said:
On another subject: I have 216,000 bonus points I will not use by November 31expiration. What is my opinion?

Bud

Bud,

As I understand it, you have four options.

1) make a reservation
2) Club Pass
3) Wyndham Travel
4) RCI deposit.

216,000 points in RCI would give you a few years to book anything available in RCI. I would wait until they were just about to expire before depositing them.

Jim

scootr5 · Jan 31, 2015

jebloomquist said:
Bud,

As I understand it, you have four options.

1) make a reservation

2) Club Pass

3) Wyndham Travel

4) RCI deposit.

216,000 points in RCI would give you a few years to book anything available in RCI. I would wait until they were just about to expire before depositing them.

Jim

Can you deposit bonus points to RCI? I don't think I've ever seen that discussed.

jebloomquist · Jan 31, 2015

scootr5 said:
Can you deposit bonus points to RCI? I don't think I've ever seen that discussed.

I called Wyndham today specifically asking about bonus points. The VC described the four options that I mentioned above. So, as much as you can believe what Wyndham says, the answer is yes.

scootr5 · Jan 31, 2015

jebloomquist said:
I called Wyndham today specifically asking about bonus points. The VC described the four options that I mentioned above. So, as much as you can believe what Wyndham says, the answer is yes.

I think you can only believe half of what Wyndham says, so he can only deposit 108,000 points......

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