TheWizz
TUG Member
To echo what others have said, I'd recommend you do a good bit of research before buying DRI (or others resale) if your main goal is to vaca in Hawaii. There are LOTS of options, but each one has one or more caveats when buying resale. Back in the day (say 5+ years ago), one could buy certain deeded Sunterra>DRI weeks and pay $2995 and convert them to Club Points and have full access to all DRI resorts at the (I believe) 10 mo. period out. I've never really had any issues with getting nice stays at Maui and Kauai w/ DRI (and similar for Hawaii and Oahu for Hilton).
Sadly, those days w/ DRI are gone
and now they make you buy I believe a minimum of 2K Trust Points to convert legacy deeded resorts to The Club as well. But the key there, is read reviews from other TUGGERs that have done this and if you decide to go the DRI route, you'd need to buy some DRI deeded weeks first. But given the current state of DRI, I'd recommend you look at some of the other TS companies before diving in. If the rules that exists today for DRI were in place 7+ years ago when I got involved with DRI, I never would have. MFs for Trust Points has been growing at a much faster rate than deeded weeks MFs.
So bottom line is RESCIND ASAP; then take your family's interests and desires for vacas and compare that to all the different timeshare companies and see what's the best match for you and your family. Good luck and welcome to TUG.
Sadly, those days w/ DRI are gone
and now they make you buy I believe a minimum of 2K Trust Points to convert legacy deeded resorts to The Club as well. But the key there, is read reviews from other TUGGERs that have done this and if you decide to go the DRI route, you'd need to buy some DRI deeded weeks first. But given the current state of DRI, I'd recommend you look at some of the other TS companies before diving in. If the rules that exists today for DRI were in place 7+ years ago when I got involved with DRI, I never would have. MFs for Trust Points has been growing at a much faster rate than deeded weeks MFs. So bottom line is RESCIND ASAP; then take your family's interests and desires for vacas and compare that to all the different timeshare companies and see what's the best match for you and your family. Good luck and welcome to TUG.