Marriott Going to Point Syst

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Re: Marriott Going to Point Syst (by R Michael F.):

anewcastle4u wrote:
Found it very odd that I was able to book six 2 bedroom villas in the "highest time" (mid March) at the Desert Springs Villas in Palm Desert on the Marriott site. How is it that the hotel site had so much prime time inventory that I can't book through II?

1. The hotel inventory is from inventory that has been assigned to Marriott Vacation Club (MVC) for rental - or in lieu of owners receiving Marriott Rewards Points. When an owner elects Marriott Rewards for their annual usage option - their resort week is then assigned to Marriott for the company's use. These weeks generally end up in the hotel system. (Marriott's got to earn something for giving owners all those points.) When this occurs, the assigned weeks are not placed in II for exchange or typically available for MVC owners to reserve.

2. Keep in mind - Palm Desert has high owner usage during the Platinum season. Owners will reserve most of this inventory for personal usage at the resort.

3. Your ability to exchange for a week at PD through II is predicated on an owner turning a week into II. Exchange demand for the Platinum season exceeds supply because of the high owner usage during the winter at PD. This can make reserving weeks in the Platinum season at Desert Springs somewhat problematic at times.

4. With this noted, the hotel had several MVC villas and II did not have any available weeks with Marriott in PD assigned to it for you to exchange into at the time you were attempting to make a reservation.