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San Luis Bay Inn

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We own two deeded shares at the San Luis Bay Inn in Avila Beach. Ownership of that resort now consists of two pools of owners - those such as ourselves and those that have purchased through Sunterra (points system). Our contention is that the board of the resort has sold out to the detriment of the original (Glen Ivy in our case) owners for the benefit of Sunterra owners. We're now being enticed by Sunterra's salespeople to relinquish our deeded time plus a large sum of money in exchange for Sunterra points. We equate this situation to having to pay additional dollars to remain in the home that we already own. Can anybody else out there relate to our situation and if so, do you have any suggestions on how to proceed? Should we conceed and buy into Sunterra, possibly on the resale market? We're concerned that if we do nothing, what we've enjoyed for years will eventually be unavailable to us and our shares will be worthless. It's already become very evident that what's available to us is far less than what's available to those that have either purchased from or converted to Sunterra.
 
We recently purchased San Luis Bay Inn ( one bedroom one bath)on the resale market. We chose to opt out of Club Sunterra and we now make our reservations through Wyndham. It took a couple of months to get this process done but it for us was well worth the wait! Reservations for 2008 were made for our desired week in August without a problem.
 
We also own 2 weeks in the original plan through Glen Ivy. We purchased them on the resale market 10 years ago for the first one and 3 years ago for the second. We were just there the 3rd of August. They tried to have us buy in to Sunterra Also. They wanted to begin with believe it or now $34,000 for a certain amount of points. I told the guy that he was nuts. They they started offering us other "deals" We turned them down. I just made my reservations for 2008 through the same place I usually call. I had no problems for next August. I will not buy into the Sunterra business. They really tried to high pressure us. Thank goodness for TUG!!!
 
(Linmcginn) Which week in August did you request and (Ava) what size unit do you own? The reason I am asking is because exactly 13 months before the date we wanted (which was August 8-15, 2008) at the first minute we could call, my husband began calling. He sat on hold for 40 minutes then when someone finally answered he was told everything was booked for the 2BR Lockouts and 1BR which is what we own. We tried a week later for the same thing and got it but called back in 1 hr just to see if it was full and were told 2BR and 1BR units were all filled. We are just disappointed that we having so much trouble getting getting our weeks that we are requesting.
 
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(Linmcginn) Which week in August did you request and (Ava) what size unit do you own? The reason I am asking is because exactly 13 months before the date we wanted (which was August 8-15, 2008) at the first minute we could call, my husband began calling. He sat on hold for 40 minutes then when someone finally answered he was told everything was booked for the 2BR Lockouts and 1BR which is what we own. We tried a week later for the same thing and got it but called back in 1 hr just to see if it was full and were told 2BR and 1BR units were all filled. We are just disappointed that we having so much trouble getting getting our weeks that we are requesting.
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What you describe is the common problem with a resort that has a wide high season float range but it's those summer weeks that are most in demand. I don't know the float for SLB but any resort with a 1-52 float or a 11-52 Float is going to have some unhappy people when it comes to the summer weeks.
 
lhenriksen said:
We own two deeded shares at the San Luis Bay Inn in Avila Beach. Ownership of that resort now consists of two pools of owners - those such as ourselves and those that have purchased through Sunterra (points system). Our contention is that the board of the resort has sold out to the detriment of the original (Glen Ivy in our case) owners for the benefit of Sunterra owners. We're now being enticed by Sunterra's salespeople to relinquish our deeded time plus a large sum of money in exchange for Sunterra points. We equate this situation to having to pay additional dollars to remain in the home that we already own. Can anybody else out there relate to our situation and if so, do you have any suggestions on how to proceed? Should we conceed and buy into Sunterra, possibly on the resale market? We're concerned that if we do nothing, what we've enjoyed for years will eventually be unavailable to us and our shares will be worthless. It's already become very evident that what's available to us is far less than what's available to those that have either purchased from or converted to Sunterra.
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If there is a trend of conversions to Club Sunterra then the older owners will have a smaller pool to draw from, but then again there are fewer older owners to compete.
 
I reserved the 8th of August and the 15th of August. We have Mini Units. I think there are more mini's than any other type there. I had no problem at all. She asked me what weeks I wanted.
 
We reserved the week of Aug 29-Sept. 5, 2008 at San Luis Bay Inn. Planning on depositing it with Interval because we can get the exchange week + an AC. :whoopie:
 
I exchange with RCI. I don't belong to II. What is an AC?
 
lhenriksen said:
Should we conceed and buy into Sunterra, possibly on the resale market? We're concerned that if we do nothing, what we've enjoyed for years will eventually be unavailable to us and our shares will be worthless. It's already become very evident that what's available to us is far less than what's available to those that have either purchased from or converted to Sunterra.
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Since you own deeded weeks at the resort, what you bought (a certain unit and week) will be available to you as long as you own it. If you are happy with that ownership, then you probably need to do nothing different. What may diminish is your ability to trade those weeks for another time and/or place. That's why so many people choose to affiliate with points based programs - Sunterra in this case. In Club Sunterra, you essentially assign the use of your owned week to the club and in return get the right to exchange into almost 100 other Sunterra resorts with no exchange fee or other cost involved. In addition you can exchange through II.
P.S. - you cannot buy a Club Sunterra membership on the resale market so would have to do the conversion at one of the resorts such as the one you already own. There are many threads on that subject, so I won't start that discussion again here.
 
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Question: If you can not buy Sunterra on the resale market why is Ebay loaded with them? Sounds like the salesman in Sedona that tried to tell me I could not buy an ILX ownership on the resale market, and they are constantly on Ebay. By the way I own at San Luis Bay Inn and when I was there last summer I had a conversation with a saleslady, and after a while she admitted to me that the resale market is the way to go for Sunterra Points. :wave:
 
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