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Re: Marriott Vacation Club point system (by Michael B.):

Weeks, shmeeks, points, joints. My point is with two weeks or about 4,300 points it still costs $220. Per day maintenance before I even get to my villa. I know that Marriott sells the timeshares stating the average hotel bill per night is over $400. Per night. Well that may be true in Aruba, Newport and Marco Island. Even those locations have discount rates at certain times even including food compensation. For us I want to vacation more than two weeks per year. So much time is spent jumping on the reservation as soon as the vacation window opens up and then waiting for the best airfare. Pick the wrong starting date for your timeshare vacation can greatly increase your airfare. We like to travel to other locations such as Maine,Canada, Las Vegas where we can even receive several days compensation. Maintenance has increased double the inflation rates. We have the Interval International subscription where at times we can rent a week at the Marriott Aruba Ocean Club or Surf club for about $1,200 per week which is les than we pay for maintenance.look p the Wyndham Vacations web site and you can use any of the RCI timeshares for vacations. Yes you can cancel those a few days in advance with no cancellation fees or need to rebook. We love the Aruba Marriott vacations but are aware that our costs per day will always be rising. We were at the Marriott Ocen Club Aruba and a couple came up to us and offered their one week Ocean Front villa for $5,500. They could not afford the $1,900 annual maintenance fee. I declined and eventually they sold it back to Marriott at about $5,500.