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Disney’s Grand Californian and Hilton Head Island
Marriott Barony Beach and Mountainside
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Sheraton Broadway Plantation
Hello worldmark people,
It has recently been suggested to me that I consider WM ownership because of the extensive number of west coast locations. So I checked it out and hmm there are quite a few places with WM resorts that I wouldn’t mind visiting. The most appealing to me is Bend OR for the purposes of mtb-ing. I am thinking summer 2019. So I checked out the WM website and looked at the unit options. Because I’ll be mountain biking, a washer dryer in the unit is a huge plus (to wash bike clothes).
The only units with WD are penthouse units. No elevators, so I’d be humping my bike up 2 flights of stairs- not ideal but doable. We’d also want a full kitchen and it looks like penthouse units are the only ones with full kitchens. A 2BR unit is the way to go for us, so that I can invite a friend or two to come. Next summer, I have a June race in New Mexico, so I’ll probably be traveling for a week in June already. This leaves the logical summer dates for a Bend OR trip at Labor Day week 2019.
In the end, I may have to just rent if I really want to try this out, but I’m going to start with a Marketplace Exchange ad to see if I can use up what I already have as TS rather than needing to rent my unit to generate the cash for a WM Rental.
Questions for y’all:
1. How hard is it to book something like a 2BR penthouse Labor Day week in Bend? Is it just a matter of someone having the points and making the booking? Is it typically a waitlist situation? How far out should the booking be made to optimize success?
2. Are there costs to the WM owner beyond the points required for the booking? Reservation fees, housekeeping fees, etc. So that I can have an idea of what would be a comparable offer. I can obviously figure out the per point Rental value so that piece of the pie is pretty straightforward.
3. What is the exchange value of 14000 WM points (the ‘cost’ for the 2BR penthouse unit) for the WM owner? Where could those points be deposited and what would they get the WM owner? II, RCI, SFX? Again from my perspective trying to understand what would be a win-win Exchange to Build an enticing ad.
4. Anything else I should be thinking of? Total WM newby so who knows what I’m not considering that I should be...
Heathpack
It has recently been suggested to me that I consider WM ownership because of the extensive number of west coast locations. So I checked it out and hmm there are quite a few places with WM resorts that I wouldn’t mind visiting. The most appealing to me is Bend OR for the purposes of mtb-ing. I am thinking summer 2019. So I checked out the WM website and looked at the unit options. Because I’ll be mountain biking, a washer dryer in the unit is a huge plus (to wash bike clothes).
The only units with WD are penthouse units. No elevators, so I’d be humping my bike up 2 flights of stairs- not ideal but doable. We’d also want a full kitchen and it looks like penthouse units are the only ones with full kitchens. A 2BR unit is the way to go for us, so that I can invite a friend or two to come. Next summer, I have a June race in New Mexico, so I’ll probably be traveling for a week in June already. This leaves the logical summer dates for a Bend OR trip at Labor Day week 2019.
In the end, I may have to just rent if I really want to try this out, but I’m going to start with a Marketplace Exchange ad to see if I can use up what I already have as TS rather than needing to rent my unit to generate the cash for a WM Rental.
Questions for y’all:
1. How hard is it to book something like a 2BR penthouse Labor Day week in Bend? Is it just a matter of someone having the points and making the booking? Is it typically a waitlist situation? How far out should the booking be made to optimize success?
2. Are there costs to the WM owner beyond the points required for the booking? Reservation fees, housekeeping fees, etc. So that I can have an idea of what would be a comparable offer. I can obviously figure out the per point Rental value so that piece of the pie is pretty straightforward.
3. What is the exchange value of 14000 WM points (the ‘cost’ for the 2BR penthouse unit) for the WM owner? Where could those points be deposited and what would they get the WM owner? II, RCI, SFX? Again from my perspective trying to understand what would be a win-win Exchange to Build an enticing ad.
4. Anything else I should be thinking of? Total WM newby so who knows what I’m not considering that I should be...
Heathpack