I'm trying to follow this thread and am a bit confused.
I went to a TS presentation recently at Custom House and I asked him about this because I used 60,000 Marriott rewards points from a credit card to stay for 2 nights and they were only giving 150,000 points in exchange for the week so I of course said that was not an equitable exchange.
His response to this discrepancy is that using my points for a short stay like I did was the worst way to use my points. He suggested that I should have used my points for a Residence inn stay or just do a cash purchase.
He showed me how to maximize my points and of course part of the shpeel was the conversion of my week to points. He also said that the best use of points was for their air/hotel packages and that using your points for redeeming a stay or just air by itself was a waste of points. He said his rule of thumb was to pay for any airfare under $350.
Honestly I didn't see any benefit in the points package except for the incentives they give you to buy but ongoing it didn't make much sense to me.
Anyway, I am seriously thinking of buying a Marriott but just a 2 bedroom lock off and splitting it up into 2 deposits and getting 2 vacations out of it, probably even an EOY use unit.
I think Angie already answered this but am I missing something? Aren't most of the Marriott's 2 bedroom lock-offs? I see most of the resales are 2 bedrooms so can't most people deposit their units as 2 units and be able to double their vacations or use the flexchange and get 2 bedrooms for their studio deposits?
And what happens if Marriott drops II and changes to RCI like DVC did?
The TS salesman told me that Marriott was not interested in an internal exchange program because they were not into the exchange business but would rather focus on creating new resorts.
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