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Re: Wyndham's new "Ovation" program offers exit solutions for their owners... interested? (by Kathy H.):
I had a shell vacations west and although I didn’t get to have three years to use my points, I was able to give it back. I have mixed feelings. I hated paying the maintenance fees but I’m finding out how expensive the private sector really is. My fees were about $1700 a year and I could squeeze 2-3 weeks out of my 5500 points every year. But then coupled with the fees of like $179 each time it was more like $2300 for those three weeks. Not a bad deal except that I paid $30,000 for those points 12 yrs ago. So I really don’t know, I think the issue was, there was never inventory when and where I wanted it so I would rather use that $2300 for one or two weeks every year exactly where I want. And if I don’t want to go anywhere that year I’m not “throwing away” that $2300. Not sure if that made sense but basically, yes, they took my points back and I haven’t. “Shelled over” $160 a month for about 6 months now