Marriott Going to Point Syst

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Re: Marriott Going to Point Syst (by L M.):

ermanc wrote:
Greetings all, Just a bit of information on the deadline to enroll legacy Marriott weeks in the new DC point system. Marriott has extended the deadline thru 30 Nov 2011. Link below is to Marriott site with announcement. Erman

http://www.marriottvacationclub.com/landing/email/insider/2011/june/generic/special-offers.html

Hi All, I went to this link and was reading it over when a thought struck me. The ad says they have 145,000 weeks enrolled. That sounds like a lot at first until you think about the number of weeks in the system. Here is what I came up with but I am just using rough numbers from observations at locations that we have visited. I am open to being corrected if anyone knows the real numbers.

So, one of the smallest places I can remember has been Sabal Palms in Orlando. There was around 160 units there. Grand Vista is huge and has at least 46 buildings with 5 floors and (I am guessing 4 units on a floor) that is a whopping 920 units there. I am going to guess that the average for Marriott locations is somewhere around 500 units.

Take that 500 and multiply it by 53 (the number of resorts) that is 26,500 units. Now if that is multiplied by 52 weeks in a year, that is 1,378,000 weeks. I know this is all rough but I think probably not too far off and maybe even on the conservative side.

Anyway 145,000 is only around 11%. That is not a very high percentage of owners in the Destinations program.

Of all the discussions I have been reading (here on Redweek and on other user forums) there are only a couple of people that have actually thought this program was a good one for owners. I know that most of the time people will talk more about what is upsetting them than what makes them happy but this still seems very unfavorable.

Keeping in mind I do remember reading about working with our home resort board of directors; my question to everyone here is, does anyone know if there is anything else we can do as individuals or a group to make changes to this program?

Thanks for any thoughts.