RCI or II Trading Power For Vistana Beach Club

[chriskre]

The value has tanked, I purchased mine for a dollar. MF are a little on the high side but what I would spend to rent would be higher. With a family of 5 a hotel room is not an option. We love the area of Jensen Beach so we will use the home resort most of the time.

Its a really nice resort. Hopefully you reserve the sunday checkins as those are the oceanfront units. I like this resort too and now Rci is limiting exchanges to 1 in 4 years so if you are using it yourself you will much happier as an owner than trying to exchange.

[ArtsieAng]

Not exactly.....Where you loose an advantage, is that there is no longer any distinction between prime red weeks, red weeks, and pinkish red weeks. All are treated equally. You still have an advantage over the weeks in seasons that are not prime, such as silver season, bronze season, etc. And, if you deposit into II, you still get the Starwood priority which is a big help in getting an exchange into other Starwood properties in II.

So basically having the prime float season is no advantage with RCI or II. Looks like I will take a closer look at SFX. Thanks for the info.

[GrayFal]

As stated by Angela, the real value for exchange is thru II which gives you the Starwood to Starwood preference. This means that u can trade into another Starwood resort before Nyone else.

Also agree with you that using at the home resort is great and good to know that Sundays are the oceanfront building.

Can not agree that SFX is good for New York City - used to be but no more. On the other hand, it is almost impossible with II and thru RCI you would need 3 years of depositing your unit to get enough points to go.

[GrayFal]

So basically having the prime float season is no advantage with RCI or II. Looks like I will take a closer look at SFX. Thanks for the info.

Yes, there is value -
prime float has stronger trade value then medium or low float in II and will get you more TPUs with RCI.
With any other exchange company, you can reserve and deposit a prime week and most importantly, you can go to the resort during prime time.

My preference would be to join II to get access to their getaways - rental weeks at reasonable cost. join for one year then wait to receive a 2 years for the price of one offer and you can then extend your membership for lower costs.

[sgt1010]

Thank you for all the information and suggestions. We owned at Marriott Harbour Lake, was called Horizon's by Marriott at the time. Was much easier to rent and trade back then, we just used other Marriott properties. Kids got older and vacation time was minimal so we sold.