Trying to Understand RCI

Okay, I now have 2 Wyndham accounts totaling 406K points and 3 WorldMark accounts totaling 39K credits. I have been enjoying them all and having a great time and am sitting in National Harbor as I write this.

I am trying to understand how the Wyndham to RCI exchange will work for Wyndham points if I want to deposit some in the future. I found world wide points chart in a previous post, but I also read under the TUG2.net Wyndham time share advice pages where the author was making 28K deposits of points and getting 2 BR weekly exchanges. But the posting showing the worldwide points chart shows 2-BR costing between 77K-205K in Wyndham points depending on season.

Just curious as I may have 72K in points left this year. I can use if need be but would probably prefer to deposit them.

Thanks in advance for your help.

The old way of doing things, referenced in the advice pages, is no longer accurate. Currently, you may deposit a minimum of 10K points at a time, in any increments of whole 1K points. So, you may deposit 12,000 points or 57,000 points but not 29,500 points.

Points deposited with RCI will have an expiration date of 2 years later, from the date of deposit. Wyndham points with various expiration dates in RCI are automatically combined whenever you make an exchange, as long as none of the points used will expire before the travel check-in date.

RCI will automatically select the points with the earliest expiration dates to use for an exchange. If some of your Wyndham points in RCI will expire before the check-in date, RCI will skip over those and use only those points which will still be active at check-in.

The worldwide exchange points grid shows the set amounts of points needed to complete exchanges into any resort with the given unit size and season of travel.

Hope that helps. By the way, there's a difference between having multiple Wyndham contracts on one Wyndham account (points may be combined for a Wyndham reservation or for a deposit to RCI) vs. having multiple Wyndham accounts (each treated completely independently). Just FYI.

Thanks for the reply

Linda,

Thanks for the reply. I know there is a different with having the multiple accounts. At the time I purchased them last year I did not have a previous Wyndham account and was buying 2 at the same time. So they did not combine them. We filled out the required paper work to have them combined. But I had reservations in both accounts and was afraid what might happen if I combined them with reservations in the accounts.

Thanks,
Steve