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I'm posting this in the Lounge because it's so generalized, I wasn't sure where else I should put it. (Mods, feel free to move it to where you think it best fits.)
I attended a party over the weekend where I had a lengthy talk about timesharing with a good friend. She and her husband/family are interested in getting into timesharing. I gave her the basics about Weeks vs. Points (as I understand them), Developer vs. Resale (which she completely understood before we spoke), and the Good vs. bad of timeshare ownership.
Having vetted her through all of that stuff, the talk turned to "So what do you think would work best for our family?" She and husband, plus five kids, the eldest of which is 17, and will be off to college next year. Youngest is 8 or 9, I think.
I said for the way they like to travel - long weekends, short term planning, driving distance from Seattle, and an occasional week-long trip out of state, that I felt a Points system would be good, and that I'd heard for northwesterners that Worldmark is a good system to get into.
And my knowledge stopped cold at that point. So I'm turning to my fellow Tuggers for some information. I'm a Weeks guy, with a generalized understanding of Points. I know different systems use a different Points scale, and they are not comparable to each other. I know booking different resorts and different times of year takes differing amounts of Points. But that's about the limit of what I know about Points.
I'd like to know if Worldmark is a good option for them, and if not, which system is better? I still don't understand the language Points systems use (UDI, for example) so don't know what to think about terms like that. How do I help them decipher the WM system to know what is a good vs. bad purchase? I've scanned the link at the wmowners.com site, but wanted to be sure that was the right place to be looking.
What can you folks tell me? Thanks in advance for any help.
Dave
I attended a party over the weekend where I had a lengthy talk about timesharing with a good friend. She and her husband/family are interested in getting into timesharing. I gave her the basics about Weeks vs. Points (as I understand them), Developer vs. Resale (which she completely understood before we spoke), and the Good vs. bad of timeshare ownership.
Having vetted her through all of that stuff, the talk turned to "So what do you think would work best for our family?" She and husband, plus five kids, the eldest of which is 17, and will be off to college next year. Youngest is 8 or 9, I think.
I said for the way they like to travel - long weekends, short term planning, driving distance from Seattle, and an occasional week-long trip out of state, that I felt a Points system would be good, and that I'd heard for northwesterners that Worldmark is a good system to get into.
And my knowledge stopped cold at that point. So I'm turning to my fellow Tuggers for some information. I'm a Weeks guy, with a generalized understanding of Points. I know different systems use a different Points scale, and they are not comparable to each other. I know booking different resorts and different times of year takes differing amounts of Points. But that's about the limit of what I know about Points.
I'd like to know if Worldmark is a good option for them, and if not, which system is better? I still don't understand the language Points systems use (UDI, for example) so don't know what to think about terms like that. How do I help them decipher the WM system to know what is a good vs. bad purchase? I've scanned the link at the wmowners.com site, but wanted to be sure that was the right place to be looking.
What can you folks tell me? Thanks in advance for any help.
Dave