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Re: Fold or Draw? (by MaryLou E.):

jayjay wrote:

kathyk117 wrote:

I have been visiting the Redweek website about 1x/month for the past 6-8 months and recently paid my dues and joined a couple months ago. We purchased a week at Marriott Mtn Valley Lodge in Breckenridge, CO (13 years ago) from the developer and got the studio (queen bed and a queen sofa-sleeper). It is a floating winter week. We turned our weeks into II every other year and got the 110,000 points the odd years. Initially this worked out well and we travelled a good deal w/our points and even got some "bonus weeks"--but we NEVER stay at our home resort, nor did we intend to when we bought it. Recently we are finding that we can never get a trade through II from the week we turned in. I am beginning to suspect it may have something to do w/the size of our unit, but can't figure out why we can't get what we want (last try was No Carolina in the 1st week of July about 7 months in advance). We are now wondering if we should just sell it (on Redweek) and rent our weeks through Redweek and be done w/this TS potential liabilty. Or should we hang on to it b/c Marriott is a fairly reputable organization to work with? It just doesn't seem worth the $765 dues we are paying when it has been so difficult to use it in the past 2-3 years (I now know that II is a big part of this problem)! Advice???

Doesn't Marriott have an internal trading system? Have you tried that route?

As far as trades with II or RCI, studios are the least demanded of all timeshares.

As Ken said, you could get an evaluation of your week from Redweek to see how many points you would get and possibly deposit your week with them for a trade. If you don't have enough points from your timeshare for what you want you can then buy extra points from Redweek to make up the difference.

BTW, is your winter week a ski week? If so, from what I've read, ski weeks in Colorado are very popular, therefore it's probably the studio (size) that's holding you back from getting what you want in a trade.

Marriott is a great ownership however as you may have already found out by reading the forum, they do not have an internal exchange system. One can either go to their home resort or exchange it as a traditional week through II. They also have a rewards system which allows owners to exchange their points for hotels but from what I know, that is not available if you purchase on the resale but then again, it is not the best value for your points