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[Q=shirley530] [Q=deborahb4] [Q=charlest66] Sunterra Sun Options have more value and are much more flexible. A week at a Sunterra Resort in prime time any time full week is only 5,500 - 6,000 points. You get your exchange more readily with II (not through RCI - we always had bad luck with RCI and switched to II - they are more quality Resorts. No exchange fee through Sunterra and your free II Membership gives you the same choice to swap a week or a few days at a minimal amount of points. You always have too many points to use. It is the greatest way to go economically more sound for your money to stay in First Class Resorts$ You pay for what you get![/Q] I am new at this stuff - what is "II" and how do I find out more about this? Thanks. Deb :)[/Q] We have owned a week in Maui with consolidated Resorts. I believe 'II" is Interval International it has a Resort Directory book they send when you join there is a fee to join . You can exchange your week for somewhere else that is listed in their book, it is a nice size book lots of places to go but they also charge a fee to do the exchange, it depends if it is in the US or out of the US there are different fees. They get you one way or the other i am not impressed with this II. If I had it to do over again I would get the point system. Shirley[/Q] Whether you can get into RCI or II (Interval International) or some other exchange group depends on your RESORT's affiliation. Even within Fairfield, some resorts are II and some RCI. Whichever it says in your original contract is what you get. Some resorts are affiliated with more than one exchange company. But if your resort is affiliated with one only, you can't just drop that and join another. You won't have any time available to deposit for an exhange! Even if you have a point system with your own resort/resort chain, you will probably want to be an exchange company member. If we can't use all our Fairfield points in our use year, we deposit them (or equivalent week) in RCI, which extends their life by two years and gives us access to resorts not connected to anything we own. Same for II, San Francisco Exchange, etc. We are members of all the above, but have only exchanged via RCI because our II connection is through Bluegreen resorts chain and we always seem to use up all the points we have with them each year. We do often deposit a Silver Crown white season floating week (Westgate; was Grandvista) with RCI and have had generally good luck, but we wish that were points too. Last week Westgate offered to "convert" our old Grandvista contract to Westgate and make us Red instead of White. That sounded interesting till we heard that there would still be a $139 exchange fee if we wanted to visit a Westgate other than our own! The points resort chains I'm familiar with have no such internal exchange fee. That's why we love them. MD