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Re: Timeshare Points vs. Weeks (by Mike N.):

stevej96 wrote:

chris460 wrote:

Another thing to consider with points. If you travel within 45 days out, you can rent a resort ( based on availabilty) for no more than 9,000 points. So if you have 45,000 p you could potentially travel on short notice for 5 weeks rather than your 1 fixed week at a red season resort.

One disadvantage to points through RCI is that you can only search 13 months in advance tops! Weeks can search 2 yrs out.

Also, do your homework when trying to convert your points! Not all of your resorts allow you to convert to RCI points even though they are affilliated! Celebrity Weeks Resorts for instance only allow you to convert to points through them!!!!

It should be pointed out as well that RCI only allows short term stays under the Standard Reservation system. Under the Weeks Reservation system in a points account ( which I refer to as Last Call ) you must travel for 1 week!

the discounted points of 9000 or less within 45 days only applies to the weeks resorts not points resorts

======= The window for booking with RCI Points is actually 10 months (303 days). The 13 month window is for booking into your home resort. While the 10 month window seems to be a disadvantage, when the date opens up everything will be available. Another word of caution with short term stays. If you check-out during mid-week, the resort has the right to charge you a cleaning fee. In my case the resort charged me $59 since it was an extra cleaning. I'd like to get that job, making 59 bucks for an hour's worth of work.