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Re: Marriott going to points system? (by Ric K.):
Franks161, no there is no requirement to join the program, we did since we like the additional options, and no more separate fees for exchanges, Marriott Reward points, Interval membership and the like. All those are rolled into one fee per year. We also basically stay at our home resort every year with our platinum week, but exchange our Bronze week for elsewhere or points everyyear so it looked interesting to us. We have a unique situation in 2011 and wanted a way to combine our summer and winter weeks to get a summer elsewhere for 5 days and this new program did it for us. We have a 5day vacation during platinum via the points exchange and another villa pending. So the program is meant to be a new option, not a requirement for all owners to join, We still own our deeded weeks...