Originally Posted by
jamflyer
If you plan to use you home resort - on the face of it there really is no change.
Not true. The annual Club Dues is $165 which you must pay even if you occupy at your home resort. That was free in the old system.
Originally Posted by
detjason
This will negatively impact existing owners.
... the value that they are assigning to weeks is reduces the opportunity for people who own the less expensive resorts. I have four Marriott weeks that I have successfully traded to Hawaii every year for the last 10 years. They are offering me for my 1950 points for my Orlando Cypress Harbour property. When I searched how many points Maui and Kauai cost, they ranged from 4500 to 6800 points. Therefore, it would cost me two to three weeks for one week in Hawaii.
My Streamside Vail Colorado weeks are only worth 950 and my Hilton Head is worth 450 points!!! I just traded the same Hilton Head property for Kauai for this August. Under the new point system, one week in Kauai would cost me 15 years of Hilton Head weeks.
Now tell me it doesnt effect current owners.
I guess the system would benefit any owners who own Kauai or Maui. They can probably get 20 weeks in Branson for one of their Hawaii weeks.
So true. My weeks in Orlando are almost useless now for internal exchanges to other Marriotts. Devaluations already killed the old trade-for-points option (where Marriott makes an 64% profit with the growing spread between the 110,000 points that gives me and the 180,000 at which they sell that same week to other MR members). Basically MVCI became an ordinary and expensive timeshare for most owners who can use, rent or exchange to other non-Marriott properties through II.