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Re: priority within home timeshare (by Cathryn G.):

When we purchased our first Silver Week at Mountainside, we were able to successfully exchange it through Interval International for ski season weeks in both December and March. At that time, the Resort was still not completely sold out and there were fewer Owners vying for exchanges. Now that the Time Share weeks are all sold, there are many more Owners and it is much more difficult to exchange into a ski season week. As I understand it, Interval does give priority to Mountainside Owners who are requesting Mountainside exchanges. Of course there is also the Platinum-Gold-Silver hierarchy that I think they also use to prioritize requests. You don't say whether you are a Gold or Silver Summer, but if you own a Gold week, then that would theoretically give you priority over Silver exchanges. Interval International should be able to clarify. It would be much easier for Marriott Owners to be able to exchange directly through Marriott Vacation Club rather than working through Interval, but it doesn't appear likely to happen any time soon, if ever.