Vacation Village Points

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Vacation Village Points (by Beck):

Now that you are participating in the RCI Points program, if you want to use your deeded unit/week (assuming you own a fixed unit and fixed week) you will have to notify RCI Points 13 months in advance that you intend to use your specific unit/week.

If you fail to notify RCI Points 13 months in advance, then you have 12 month advanced reservation for your resort, 11 months advance reservation for your home resort group (your resort plus a few others are usually in a group of resorts owner by the same developer or property management company - but this doesn't mean your home resort group contains all the resorts the developer or prop mgt offers).

In the event you and all the other RCI Points participating timeshare owners do not elect to use their unit, or time at their resort or group, more than 10 months in advance, then all RCI Points members have access to all units at all resorts in the RCI Points system which haven't been reserved.

This means your best planning to stay at other RCI Points participating resorts is 10 months in advance. From that point forward the units slowly get reserved and become unavailable.

In the above reservation scenereo you may make 1 to as many night reservations as your points will cover. You never receive points discounts at any time for any of these reservations, even if you wait until 3-45 days in advance. However, members are allowed to deposit a weeks unit into the Points program. Members receive points for the deposited weeks unit of varying amounts (see RCI for details). These units may be deposited up to two years in advance I believe. If the weeks units are still available 45 days before checkin, they are discounted to 7,000 or 9,000 points! I've taken many vacations using these deals!

I'm not positive but there might be a possibility RCI Points members also have access to the Weeks deposited in the RCI Weeks program. Since I have both accounts I have seen cases where units are available in the Weeks account and not in the Points account for weeks units, but there are a lot of Weeks units available thru the Points account.