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Re: Marriott Going to Point Syst (by Thomas N.):
Kathy and Mark, Thanks for all your excellent insights!
My wife and I are 25 year Marriott timeshare owners, with 3 Hawaii properties and 2 in Palm Desert, all purchased through Marriott. We reluctantly enrolled in the new points program last August, and have all the same concerns that everyone else has expressed. If we were to ever turn all our weeks in for points in a given year (which is highly unlikely), we would get 19,775 points.
Two days ago, while in Maui, we met with a Marriott sales rep to learn more about the new program. Much to our surprise, we were informed that our potential 19,775 points will NEVER be usable for any future new Marriott properties because they differentiate in the new program between "exchange points" (i.e., Legacy owners that exchange their deeded weeks for points) versus "trust points" (which are the newly sold points). However, we were told if we buy 2,000 of the new points (at around $20,000) then all our points could be treated as "trust points". Needless to say, this seems ridiculous, but unfortunately, is true.
What is everyone's understanding about this? I know this is the first time we were aware of this situation.