1) Where do you want your home resort to be?
Doesn't matter.
2) Do you want to visit your home resort at least half the time, or do you want to trade more than half the time?
Want to trade most all of the time.
3) What are your 5 top trade destinations?
Europe; Caribbean, Las Vegas, New Orleans.
4) How many people do you usually travel with?
2-4
5) Can you travel any time, or are you locked into the school schedule?
Can travel anytime currently sometimes even with short notice. In the not too distance future will be able to travel whenever.
6) Can you make firm plans 12 or more mos. in advance?
Absolutely.
7) Can you vacation for a full week at a time?
Yes or even more.
8) What level of accommodations do you prefer on a scale of 1 to 5 stars?
Flexible depending on location.
9) How much can you afford to spend upfront, without financing?
Not really an issue, but we are cost conscious. Willing to pay if the program meets our needs.
10) How much can you afford to spend every year for a maintenance fee that will come due right after Christmas, and increase each year?
Again not an issue so much as cost/value ratio. I find that I can usually find acceptable accommodations where we are going on average at $100/night.
11) Are you a detail oriented planner?
Extremely detailed oriented.
12) Do you understand that once you buy a timeshare, it may be very difficult to sell or give away, and you are responsible for all fees, until you do?
I do.
We are soon to be retired but even now have the ability to travel about six weeks a year. We rarely go for two weeks in a row but often go for a week.
In addition to the above (with explanation below), the following things are important to us.
1. Flexibility, flexibility, flexibility
2. Ability to split weeks into smaller chunks, 3 nights, 4 nights (this is really more the way we travel).
3. Transfer ability to hotel program (perhaps to achieve the above).
a. cost per night of transfer ratio
ex. Wyndham timeshare points 126,000 if 1:1 ratio to hotel
One Night at wyndham hotel prop = 15,000 pts = 8.4
nights
$721 MF = 85.83 per night or .0057 per pt.
Depending on the Wyndham hotel property their
hotel points can be valued at as much as .032/pt
Two years ago I purchased a Wyndham week at the Avenue Plaza in NOLA resale. I knew (thanks to TUGS) exactly what I was getting. It is an uncoverted week so there are no points attached, no RCI membership, pretty much nothing but the week. We use the week to go to French Quarter Festival.
We went to the owners meeting and they offered us 126,000 points for our week if we bought 77,000 for 14k. I had not done my research on TUGS and did not purchase. But the presentation did get us thinking about a points system.
I currently manage our membership in, let's just say, quite a few travel reward programs. Excel is my friend. We are thinking that purchased points may make an excellent addition to our travel portfolio. I have purchased hotel points (not timeshare) in the past and have managed to get value from those purchases. I don't mind going the extra mile or making plans around a good deal.
Any ideas on what might be a good fit for us?
Doesn't matter.
2) Do you want to visit your home resort at least half the time, or do you want to trade more than half the time?
Want to trade most all of the time.
3) What are your 5 top trade destinations?
Europe; Caribbean, Las Vegas, New Orleans.
4) How many people do you usually travel with?
2-4
5) Can you travel any time, or are you locked into the school schedule?
Can travel anytime currently sometimes even with short notice. In the not too distance future will be able to travel whenever.
6) Can you make firm plans 12 or more mos. in advance?
Absolutely.
7) Can you vacation for a full week at a time?
Yes or even more.
8) What level of accommodations do you prefer on a scale of 1 to 5 stars?
Flexible depending on location.
9) How much can you afford to spend upfront, without financing?
Not really an issue, but we are cost conscious. Willing to pay if the program meets our needs.
10) How much can you afford to spend every year for a maintenance fee that will come due right after Christmas, and increase each year?
Again not an issue so much as cost/value ratio. I find that I can usually find acceptable accommodations where we are going on average at $100/night.
11) Are you a detail oriented planner?
Extremely detailed oriented.
12) Do you understand that once you buy a timeshare, it may be very difficult to sell or give away, and you are responsible for all fees, until you do?
I do.
We are soon to be retired but even now have the ability to travel about six weeks a year. We rarely go for two weeks in a row but often go for a week.
In addition to the above (with explanation below), the following things are important to us.
1. Flexibility, flexibility, flexibility
2. Ability to split weeks into smaller chunks, 3 nights, 4 nights (this is really more the way we travel).
3. Transfer ability to hotel program (perhaps to achieve the above).
a. cost per night of transfer ratio
ex. Wyndham timeshare points 126,000 if 1:1 ratio to hotel
One Night at wyndham hotel prop = 15,000 pts = 8.4
nights
$721 MF = 85.83 per night or .0057 per pt.
Depending on the Wyndham hotel property their
hotel points can be valued at as much as .032/pt
Two years ago I purchased a Wyndham week at the Avenue Plaza in NOLA resale. I knew (thanks to TUGS) exactly what I was getting. It is an uncoverted week so there are no points attached, no RCI membership, pretty much nothing but the week. We use the week to go to French Quarter Festival.
We went to the owners meeting and they offered us 126,000 points for our week if we bought 77,000 for 14k. I had not done my research on TUGS and did not purchase. But the presentation did get us thinking about a points system.
I currently manage our membership in, let's just say, quite a few travel reward programs. Excel is my friend. We are thinking that purchased points may make an excellent addition to our travel portfolio. I have purchased hotel points (not timeshare) in the past and have managed to get value from those purchases. I don't mind going the extra mile or making plans around a good deal.
Any ideas on what might be a good fit for us?
