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Purchase Paradox: Upgrading View (by Charles S.):

I understand that you would feel as if the retun on your investment would be lower. However, you paid on a garden view. If you want to upgrade to a different type unit you will need to pay more. Remember the people who bought the oceanview you want paid thousands of dollars more than you. It would be different if you were paying extra to get into an oceanview room that you already had bought into. You are asking for more. I looked at ocean view and ocean front villas at Aruba Surf. I just made the assumption that you had a 2 bedroom. A two bedroom garden would be 2925 points in August. An ocean view was 3500 points and oceanfront was 4525 points. If you were to rent the difference in points at .40 per point. You would pay an additional $640 for an oceanFRONT and $230 for an oceanVIEW unit.

Unless you have another Marriott unit, I would advise you not to joint the DC. You don't have enough in one of your weeks to really take advantage of what the points could do. Buying more points would only be so much more expensive. Keep your garden view and try to request an oceanview or oceanfront and maybe you'll get lucky. If it's that important to you to get oceanfront, then you may want to join the DC and rent the additional points.