I have limited knowledge of what owners pay but expect you will get good advice from owners. I will tell you the $11 pp/pd is ages 12 and up. Also, I used our Wyndham via RCI to get 2-2 bedrooms for about $1600 total ($800 each) including exchange fees and my maintenance I traded to get the reservation but excluding the pp/pd fee. I sat next to an older man on one of their trams who said he owned and that was what EACH of his 2 bedrooms cost. If you were thinking about buying I would really do your homework first. Interval trades to Grand Mayan and Grand Luxxe. RCI trades Grand Mayan, Grand Bliss, Bliss, Mayan Palace, and Sea Garden.
Not sure if OP still needs the response, but Vidanta owners pay a usage fee (in general for those that bought in the recent past) when they reserve via Vidanta rather than a maintenance fee. The usage fee varies based on the unit size and which resort it is; for the lower level resorts (Sea Garden and Mayan Palace), my impression is that the fee is close to what an RCI exchange would cost given the likely MF for the exchanges unit, exchange fee, and new Vidanta resort fee structure, which starts out for those at $20/person/day, I believe. I’m not sure if II’s resort fees changed at the same time as the RCI ones. For the higher level ones, the resort fee is generally $30/person/day. Vidanta owners reserving through Vidanta don’t pay an additional resort fee.
The resort fee through SFX is a flat $75. Elite Alliance lists the resort fee as $65, but it might be old information. The Registry Collection doesn’t list a Vidanta resort fee. The one Corey is discussing is probably a set of reservations through RCI Platinum priority access, which also doesn’t list a resort fee. I did one of those last year and wasn’t charged one for that stay.
Everyone pays some government taxes or environmental fees.
The latest update to the RCI fee structure strikes me as balancing the field for the most part between owners’ costs and exchanges. I don’t use II, so can’t speak about that side, but the RCI side used to be set up to allow limited access to exchanges into all but Grand Luxxe for all including owners. Those limitations no longer exist, which is part of my opinion on this.
On the Grand Luxxe side, they’ve included a limitation to prevent Vidanta owners from reserving via RCI Platinum priority access, which is the lowest cost I’ve seen to get into Grand Luxxe and allows a higher level exchange than a Vidanta owner would potentially possess. They do include a limit of one week per resort id per year, but that would let a non-Vidanta owner to stay one week in a loft, one week in a villa, one week in a 4 BR residence, one week in a spa unit and one week in a suite for about the cost Corey listed, depending on the underlying TS MF, of course. If you have access to this exchange method or the math works out favorably with II and your costs there, I would think long and hard about whether Vidanta ownership is right for you. There seems to be a need for a more coherent vision of what they are aiming to provide owners.
