BDMX2
TUG Member
- Joined
- May 21, 2017
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- 330
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- CT
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Wyndham Santa Barbara
Wyndham Bonnet Creek
I'm wondering how most of you usually plan and use your points to zero out by the end of the use year. We're in our 2nd year of Wyndham ownership and still learning the best approaches for some of these little details.
Here's my scoop:
We have two contracts, both a January 1st use year. We bought resale in 2017 and membership finally transferred in late December so the remaining 2017 points were just deposited to RCI since I couldn't do much more with them at that late hour (nor did I expect to use them...so being able to get them on time to bank with RCI was gravy). Anyway, then in 2018 we knew we were planning on taking a trip to Hawaii and taking my parents along, so I got our 2018 plans squared away by March 31st and banked everything else forward to 2019 and our 2018 points were zero for the remainder of the year. So now here in 2019 we've taken our trips and I'm sitting on 500 points remaining, which I know is really very little. Too few to transfer to RCI of course. And I know the dollar amount I'm talking about in dues is really tiny as well, but I hate to leave anything on the table, and next year whit if it is in the thousands rather than just 500. So I imagine we either lose the 500, donate them to Wyndham to use for military families, or plan to find some sort of weekend getaway before December 31st and borrow the balance from 2020. Any other option I'm missing? What do most of you (non VIP) normally do? Have everything planned by the banking deadline like I did last year? End up losing a few every year? Something else that I'm not considering?
Here's my scoop:
We have two contracts, both a January 1st use year. We bought resale in 2017 and membership finally transferred in late December so the remaining 2017 points were just deposited to RCI since I couldn't do much more with them at that late hour (nor did I expect to use them...so being able to get them on time to bank with RCI was gravy). Anyway, then in 2018 we knew we were planning on taking a trip to Hawaii and taking my parents along, so I got our 2018 plans squared away by March 31st and banked everything else forward to 2019 and our 2018 points were zero for the remainder of the year. So now here in 2019 we've taken our trips and I'm sitting on 500 points remaining, which I know is really very little. Too few to transfer to RCI of course. And I know the dollar amount I'm talking about in dues is really tiny as well, but I hate to leave anything on the table, and next year whit if it is in the thousands rather than just 500. So I imagine we either lose the 500, donate them to Wyndham to use for military families, or plan to find some sort of weekend getaway before December 31st and borrow the balance from 2020. Any other option I'm missing? What do most of you (non VIP) normally do? Have everything planned by the banking deadline like I did last year? End up losing a few every year? Something else that I'm not considering?