Wyndham points expiration

[lnelson]

I have had this explained to me a time or two but I still do not get it. If I have a Wyndham points membership: Let's say that I get 100,000 points per year (January points deposit). For my 2008 points, when do they expire? Is it at the end of 2008? End of 2009? I need to understand this better as some of the listings I see for sale have 2008 parts included with them.

Thanks and regards,

Larry

[rklein01]

Assuming they're Wyndham FSP Points (and you didn't buy Plus Partners from Wyndham), you have three choices:

1. You can call before the year begins, i.e. in 12/07, and deposit them in the points pool. That gives you a three year window 08-09-10 to use them in Wyndham, but they don't qualify for 13-month ARP nor can they thereafter be deposited in RCI Weeks.

2. You can spend them on a 2008 Wyndham vacation. So if for example you wanted to use them in July 2008 you could phone as early as Sept 2007 to make the reservation (or June 2007 if it's a booking via ARP at your home resort. Thus the latest you could vacation would be 12/08.

3. You could deposit them into RCI Weeks (either a generic or a visible week deposit). The latest you can call to make the deposit is 12/08, which would give you until 12/31/10 to take an RCI Weeks vacation.

[Jya-Ning]

For your example, 2008 Jan starting points expired at end of 2008. If it is Oct use year. It starts at Oct 2008 and end at Sept 2009.

You can start using them 13 month before the starting day. So in your case, you can use Jan 2008 points from Dec 2006 to make Jan 2008 Home resort ARP reservation. Or do whatever you like (deposit to RCI, put into credit pool, rent/transfer out to other owner ...).

Jya-Ning

[pranas]

How does it work if your points are in a resort affiliated with II?

[GrayFal]

Originally Posted by pranas

How does it work if your points are in a resort affiliated with II?

In example number 3 - exactly the same only it would go in your II account.

[pranas]

Originally Posted by GrayFal

In example number 3 - exactly the same only it would go in your II account.

And how many points make a week in II?

[Jya-Ning]

http://www.timeshareforums.com/forum...re-plus-2.html (Intro to Fairfield Fairshare Plus) and post #16. Or if you can get access to directory, it is at pp 284.
II favors unit size than season, so if you have around 70+K, it is better to deposit it as 2BD green (77k) instead of stdio red (70k)

Jya-Ning

[pranas]

I recently purchased 49000 points at the Royal Vista (II resort) in Florida and am still waiting to close on it. The MFs per point are rather high but I purchased it primarily for day use. I know that the number of points is small but I was just curious as to what I could look forward to exchanging into with this number of points.

[Jya-Ning]

Internally, you may get 2 or 3 days stay in prime season in some resorts. Some older resorts you may be able to find white season stdio 1 week for that amount

Since it is trade with II, you ca deposit only upto white stdio into II. Not II owner I would believe you will have some disadvantage.

The size will not be able to cover you HK for 1BD or free transaction. But you should be able to play with it a little, and decide what you want do with it.

The MF is high because it carry a lot of overhead. The FSP membership fee is fixed until 154k. So you are carry about 3.5 times FSP memebrship than some other people's. If you decide to hold on to it, and add more points, the FSP part will start to avg lower per point.

Jya-Ning

[pranas]

So, if I bought more points at the same resort can the two accounts be combined?