Since MVCI moved to the destination club program, the unsold inventory at the resorts, prior released into MARSHA for rental, as well as to sales for promo stays, now appears to be deeded into the trust which funds the new points system with inventory. I've been watching my home resort, Newport Coast, since June 20th, as well as a couple of the Hawaii resorts, and note, at Newport, inventory initially was available at the normal 50 week advance period, but returned an unsuccessful sell after June 24. Now there's nothing back into May, and this period is usually low priced 'gloom' time at Newport.
Newport has over 4MM points deeded into the trust, so I'm assuming all the Platinum weeks and some of the Gold weeks have been pulled from the hotel rental side.
Crystal Shores is a huge, new, relatively unsold resort in MVCI. The lack of rentals available there underscores that. Your time period is currently renting between 3K and 4K per week with thin availability. I generally get asking price for Newport so you can likely take the asking prices at face value.
Last edited by camachinist; Aug 22, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Reason: Add info on Crystal Shores