Marriott vs. Starwood

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Marriott vs. Starwood (by Charles S.):

bradp50 wrote:
Use this link to tell you about Starwood Resale. http://www.tugbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63224

Advantage of Starwood is that they have a home resort time frame 12 to 8 months for the home resort people to book their time. Marriott only has home resort preference for Hawiaan properties.

My sister has a Marriott and hates it. She tried to book 364 days in advance at her home resort and the resort was booked up. If you own 2 Marriotts you can book 14 months in advance and the whole system is open to all Marriott TS people. That is, the people who bought in Florida can book in Newport or any where except Hawaii 365 days in advance with having only a single TS and 14 months in advance if 2 or more TS units.

Starwood has volintary and manditory units. Purchasing a manditory property, resale, give you full access to the Starwood system. There are 5 manditory resorts in their system. Buying resale, volintary gives you access to your resort and Interval International. You can not trade to another Starwood resort except through Interval International and you can not convert to StarPoints.

Check out the above link

You have given out EXTREMELY INACCURATE information. I own a Marriott at Ko Olina in Hawaii and what you are saying is very very wrong.

Maybe your sister is not having luck, but most people can make reservations 12 months in advance. I have been to Ko Olina in the summer and did not have to even do it a year in advance.

Marriott is a good system. Most Marriott owners love their timeshares because there are several of them in very desirable locations throughout the world and they are usually of a very high quality. Marriott sells their timeshares by weeks and not points. If you hear about points with Marriott they are referring to Marriott rewards points which are received by using credit cards and if you bought your timeshare through the developer you can trade your timeshare and get Marriott rewards points to change into gifts and hotel points for stays in places where there may not be a Marriottt timeshare. I used these points to stay in Paris and Japan's hotels.

To make reservations you can do it online or by telephone. You can make a reservation if you own only one week 12 months in advance of your arrival. If you own multiple weeks you can make a reservation 13 months in advance only if you are making reservations for 2 consecutive weeks or using multiple timeshares concurrently.

If a Marriott owner wants to exchange into a property of another Marriott they do not own, they need to do an exchange through Interval International (II) as Marriott does not have an internal exchange program at this time. The Marriott owner would need to deposit his/her week first into II and then when someone at the resort relinquishes their timeshare Marriott owners have 24 day headstart on other companies like Starwood people who want to exchange into them. Thus, booking in Newport, Hawaii or anyplace else would require this process and not what you stated above.

Please give the original poster the right information.