Post reply

Re: Sheraton Vistana, Starpoints and exchanging (by Frank C.):

anands5 wrote:

frank, thanks it helps. i can see the advantage of getting a week in fountains, fountains 2, cascades and lakes as they are exchangeable into sheraton resorts and also upgradeable into the newer resorts as you suggest. the units in courts, etc are older/cheaper but not tradeable into sheraton but exchangeable into rci or ii, is it worth buying thse for sole purpose of exchange ie these still have a good bargaining power in rci?

anands5 Your understanding is correct about Fountains I & II Lakes and Cascades, but don't over pay. If the end of the day you are planning on trading it in for a direct purchase at Sheraton, (resales do not have access to SVO) don't let seller tell you the wrong story, they may be able to access SVO due to their purchase from Sheraton, it is not transferable. If it can, be sure you getting that directly from Sheraton (Starwood) The older units are very cheap, but they still mantain their trade in value at 90% of then purchase price, so if your seller purchased it at $10k Sheraton will credit you $9k for trading it in for Vistana Village week. So plan ahead, also if you are planning on buying two, buy a old one to trade in and buy the newer one to keep, once you purchased one Sheraton at retail sale (traded in your old one) the 2nd one in Vistana Resort will be issued Staroptions. So the story is, Sheraton is happy to hit you with one retail, you shouldn't never buy two retail units from them. But people do, because they can't trust the resale market, and it is true that there are many scams out there, plan ahead, ask a lot of questions. Confirm it if those data is what cause you to buy, don't let sales people pass on a topic unanswered, no matter how rush you are.