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Re: Advice Please: (by KC):

flemingstuartm wrote:

I have no any idea about timeshare exchange...please can anyone help me.

The short version is that with any timeshare exchange company, you relinquish (or "deposit" to the exchange company) a week that you own and have reserved, in order to later request some OTHER week somewhere else in the future in return. You must JOIN the exchange company FIRST as a member in order to participate in the exchange process and you must of course OWN a timeshare in order to join an exchange company in the first place. Some resorts are RCI affiliated, some are II affiliated, some are affiliated with BOTH. Ask your resort, if you're unsure. With DAE, it does not matter at all which exchange company your resort is affiliated with. However, if a resort is affiliated ONLY with RCI, you can't use II as an exchange company (or vice versa).

The major exchange companies are RCI (the biggest by far), Interval International and Dial an Exchange. Visit their respective web sites for more detailed information on their membership procedures and exchange costs. DAE does not charge a membership fee, but RCI and II both do (annually, in fact). There is ALWAYS a fee charged to actually make an exchange, regardless of which exchange company you utilize. RCI has the highest exchange fees of all --- currently just under $200 per exchange and virtually guaranteed to periodically (but unpredictably) always increase in the future.