Vacation Resort International

[bigfrank]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dani
Note that you really need a red VRI week to maximize your VRI priority. It can be a pink-red week, but it should be a red week.


So, if I have a blue VRI week .... the red and white owners have priority over me BUT I still have priority over non-VRI owners within the 30 day window???
Is that correct?

I have had a blue week and it's worked for me. I also got the reduced exchange fees and 3for 2 Rci membership discount.

 

[Dani]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dani
Note that you really need a red VRI week to maximize your VRI priority. It can be a pink-red week, but it should be a red week.


So, if I have a blue VRI week .... the red and white owners have priority over me BUT I still have priority over non-VRI owners within the 30 day window???
Is that correct?

Pat,

I just know that while all VRI weeks get a preference, there is definitely a priority in terms of the color of your week. I don't believe that you necessarily have priority over all non-VRI owners if RCI determines that you do not have enough trade power to obtain the week. This might be a good question for "Madge." There was one time that I saw a VRI week on-line with my Aqua week, but not my red VRI studio. I also know of owners who own both red and white/or blue VRI weeks and they have noted the differences between the weeks.

Also, like Frank, I have taken advantage of the 3 years for the price of 2 membership fee as well as reduced exchange fees.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Way back when we first acquired our VRI week, I called the VRI number at RCI to talk about how the trade preference worked - specifically, whether any VRI week could pick up any other VRI, regardless of trade power.

FWIW - the rep told me that my week still had to have the required trade power for the exchange. Thus, the effect of the trade preference is to allow VRI owners to "cut in" ahead of non-VRI owners during the 30-day period after a week is deposited.

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Returning to the topic of whether there is a VRI trade preference for the former VI prooperties.

A couple of days ago I received a mailing from RCI to VRI owners talking about VRI preferences and benefits within RCI. The document carried a 2005 copyright, and listed all VRI resorts. The listing did not include any of the former VI properties.

Previously I questioned PA's assertions that the preference did not include the former VI properties. With further reflection I was reconsidering that, and after this mailing I"m even more doubtful of my previous statements - i.e, now I'm inclined to agree with PA.

 

[Dani]

Steve,

I noticed the same thing and posted about it. I think PA may be correct too.

 

[DMS]

VRI no longer exchanges through themselves...

I own @ The Resort on Cocoa Beach, and have my week reserved for this fall. I allowed my "gratis" RCI membership to lapse, and will do the same with my ICE membership. I recently inquired through the VRI Central Reservations Office if they offer an "intra-VRI" exchange program, and they do not. Dave

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

VRI eliminated their internal exchange program years ago. We purchased at Winners Circle in 1999, and the VRI internal exchange program was gone then.

The internal trade program was replaced by the VRI Preference program within RCI, which includes the intra-VRI trade preference, the reduced exchange fee for intra-VRI trades, and the reduced cost of RCI membership for VRI members (three years for the price of two years).

One or two VRI resorts that were not affiliated with RCI were stranded by this change in the program. The VRI resort on Nantucket was one of them - after the RCI program was set up those owners lost the ability to participate in VRI trade preferences