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Hi Everyone,
I'm new to the boards and have read through the posts and have a couple of questions regarding the vacation ownership we just purchased in Maui- bi annually beacuse of the lower maintenace fees. Hope you can all help.
We just got back yesterday and after reviewing all the information we are not sure we made the right decision about purchasing in Hawaii and still have the time to rescind. We think we may be better of purchasing the Harborside yearly now that we have had a chance to go over everything. The flight from Toronto to Nassau is a lot shorter and the flights would be a little less expensive. Going to Hawaii for one week over the march break with a 12 hour flight/stop over is out of the question. When we called the Harborside resort they informed me that we could purchase a year ownership in the bahamas for march break season and christmas for $52,900 2BLO and $2100 M/F. The M/F would be the same as Hawaii but $3,000 less total cost over Princeville. Now we're torn and would like your advice. The Star Options are the same but we would get 13,900 more starpoints at harborside. Christmas/New years is not included in Princevill but could be purchased for Harborside and we could use them during our break.
We like the Starwood program because it gives us the option to cahnge the star options to star points and use them for stays in Europe during the summer if we decide not to go to the bahams during the winter break.
We're just not sure whether investing in Hawaii or the bahamas now is the right choice? For $3000 more we could own in Hawaii with the same M/F but would most likely be covnerting the points every year and using them for star points-which i'm not sure makes much sense.
Are there any other ownership resorts that offer 148,00 SO with less maintenace fees? Knowing that we would most likely need to travel a week in March or 1 week over christmas/n.y does it make more sense to purchase the platinum weeks at the Bahamas?
If we don't purchase the platinum weeks, how easy will be to get a week in March and a week over the christmas break?
Sorry for the long winded posts and the many typos I'm sure I made (jet-lag) but any information you could send along would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance for all your help.
Caroline
I'm new to the boards and have read through the posts and have a couple of questions regarding the vacation ownership we just purchased in Maui- bi annually beacuse of the lower maintenace fees. Hope you can all help.
We just got back yesterday and after reviewing all the information we are not sure we made the right decision about purchasing in Hawaii and still have the time to rescind. We think we may be better of purchasing the Harborside yearly now that we have had a chance to go over everything. The flight from Toronto to Nassau is a lot shorter and the flights would be a little less expensive. Going to Hawaii for one week over the march break with a 12 hour flight/stop over is out of the question. When we called the Harborside resort they informed me that we could purchase a year ownership in the bahamas for march break season and christmas for $52,900 2BLO and $2100 M/F. The M/F would be the same as Hawaii but $3,000 less total cost over Princeville. Now we're torn and would like your advice. The Star Options are the same but we would get 13,900 more starpoints at harborside. Christmas/New years is not included in Princevill but could be purchased for Harborside and we could use them during our break.
We like the Starwood program because it gives us the option to cahnge the star options to star points and use them for stays in Europe during the summer if we decide not to go to the bahams during the winter break.
We're just not sure whether investing in Hawaii or the bahamas now is the right choice? For $3000 more we could own in Hawaii with the same M/F but would most likely be covnerting the points every year and using them for star points-which i'm not sure makes much sense.
Are there any other ownership resorts that offer 148,00 SO with less maintenace fees? Knowing that we would most likely need to travel a week in March or 1 week over christmas/n.y does it make more sense to purchase the platinum weeks at the Bahamas?
If we don't purchase the platinum weeks, how easy will be to get a week in March and a week over the christmas break?
Sorry for the long winded posts and the many typos I'm sure I made (jet-lag) but any information you could send along would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance for all your help.
Caroline