RCI 5 year guest certificate

[BoardGirl]

Originally Posted by pranas

You can add up to five names to your account for free. It is very easy to do and works well. A lot cheaper than a GC.

I don't think so. That option is not available with my Weeks account.

[JLB]

Sounds like a question for Feedback, the answer to which I probably have stored somewhere.

[pranas]

All I had to do was Fax a letter of request to Customer Service. The letter had to be signed by both of us. If I want to remove my daughter's name I have to send another letter signed by both of us. They did remove her name a few months ago. I compained loudly and they added it back claiming it was a computer update error. The guide could see her name and I couldn't but thankfully it was straightened out. I added her name about three years ago after reading about this option in TUGs threads.

[zgreg9]

Originally Posted by pranas

You can add up to five names to your account for free. It is very easy to do and works well. A lot cheaper than a GC.

For all of the five names you added to your account, are exchange confirmations printed in their names (rather than yours); therefore, not requiring G.C.?

Can the five names you added with your permission make exchanges directly with RCI after advising RCI which of your deposits these individuals could use?

Can the five names you added at any time without your permission book LAST CALL and EXTRA VACATIONS?

[JLB]

From the Terms and Conditions for Weeks:

No more than two co-owners of a single Vacation Ownership may apply for a single RCI Weeks Subscribing Membership. If a Vacation Ownership is owned by more than two persons, each person must apply for separate RCI Weeks Subscribing Memberships. RCI may honor instructions from any person listed in RCI’s records as a co-owner of Vacation Ownership and, in the event of conflicting instructions, RCI may refuse to honor any later instruction received.

[bellesgirl]

Originally Posted by JLB

From the Terms and Conditions for Weeks:

No more than two co-owners of a single Vacation Ownership may apply for a single RCI Weeks Subscribing Membership. If a Vacation Ownership is owned by more than two persons, each person must apply for separate RCI Weeks Subscribing Memberships. RCI may honor instructions from any person listed in RCI’s records as a co-owner of Vacation Ownership and, in the event of conflicting instructions, RCI may refuse to honor any later instruction received.

That is what I have been told by RCI as well. Again, it may be different with Points, but that is the rule for Weeks, as far as I know. pranas- are you points or weeks?

[JLB]

Originally Posted by bellesgirl

That is what I have been told by RCI as well.

Then that clouds the issue.

Normally you cannot rely on what someone at RCI tells you.

[zgreg9]

JLB and bellesgirl

Thanks for the clarification. I have weeks only.

[Beach10]

Hello all and thank you for all the wonderful information here on this forum.

Interpreting this as - after I confirm I should check directly with the resort to see if they are really going to want a guest certificate before I pay for one?

Originally Posted by JLB

In real life, not the RCI world, some resorts do not require Guest Certificates, especially for family members. They realize it is just a way for RCI to make more $$$. Within the last 10 years RCI has decided to charge for things they used to do for free. Well, not free since everyone pays to be a subscriber.

Many resorts have websites and respond to email. You can check with resorts before you confirm an exchange.

[JLB]

Originally Posted by Beach10

Hello all and thank you for all the wonderful information here on this forum.

Interpreting this as - after I confirm I should check directly with the resort to see if they are really going to want a guest certificate before I pay for one?

No. You should find out what a resort requires before you confirm an exchange.


There is a world of difference between the way some resorts operate and the way RCI operates. At a resort, the resort rules rule.