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Re: Club Navigo is a rip off (by Steve M.):

Just a quick note about my experiences with Club Navigo. I have posted replies to several postings, and have on occasion been accused of being a plant for Club Navigo. Well I certainly am not that. I own 4 Navigo weeks, deeded as 2Br at Grand Seas, and as a 2Br and two 3Br's at Liki Tiki. This gives me 26,000 points each year of usage. So if anyone should be having trouble using up their points, it should be me. Yet I have always been able to work out favorable reservations, and have never lost any points. And I seldom use up all my points at once by booking high season rooms. I usually travel in mid or low season, and get more than one week out of each unit.

You have to pay your fees early or on time at the latest. Make your reservations EARLY, as soon as your fees are paid. If you have trouble getting the week you want, consider banking a different week or weeks into Interval International or RCI exchange systems, and select from their vast inventory or time share units. If all else fails, bank into next year or make a reservation and sell the use on eBay.

Having said that, Club Navigo has over the years used outside sales companies to represent them, for sure at The Grand Seas in Daytona, and certainly at other sites over the years. These companies have at time used less than honest techniques to basically sucker people into buying something that was not as they portrayed it. This is unfortunate, but that damage has been done. In the end, it is buyer beware, and every contract clearly states that if if was not written down in the contract, it was not guaranteed. But that does not mean you can not make lemonade out of the lemon. I know of several owners who can not get the week they want at the resort they want through the Navigo reservations system. So they bank one or more weeks, whatever they can get for reservations, into the Interval system. Remember that your Club Navigo membership includes a membership in either Interval International or RCI. Call Club Navigo Member Services to get the account number for your membership in the outside exchange club. They then pick a resort stay from Interval or RCI , and have a great time. Do a little homework, and you can turn your time share into an asset, rather than a pain.

Good Luck to all.