Best Resort/Club for points?

[gsjr77 Member Find all posts View Profile Close gsjr77]

I hope this question doesn't sound too redundant....
Is there a list of points based resorts or clubs available on this site? Or a specific place to find more details other than sifting through each listing?

[motomem Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close motomem]

Here is one suggestion for seeing a list of Vacation Clubs (points systems):

Go to this link: Buy and sell timeshare from a timeshare resale specialist! - click on advanced search. Towards the bottom of the screen is a search criteria field for 'Vacation Club' - click the arrow and you'll see a list of clubs. There may be more out there but this is a pretty good list.

Now, this is just a resale listing site. You can search for points that are for sale. Pinnacle is a reseller. It's actually owned by Bluegreen but lists others as well.

As far as how the points systems work and the resorts that they have you'll just have to investigate each club.

With each of them you can usually use RCI or II to exchange a week for other resorts.

A quick google search found this site that has a comparison of vacation clubs - don't know how accurate this is:
Vacation Club Review 2010 - TopTenREVIEWS

[Jya-Ning Silver Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close Jya-Ning]

I hope this question doesn't sound too redundant....
Is there a list of points based resorts or clubs available on this site? Or a specific place to find more details other than sifting through each listing?

There are too many, you have first to make your own criteria what is the meaning of best before doing any search.

I can remember at least these that is developer (HOA) owned/controlled
Disney, HGVC (Hilton), Wyndham, Wordmark, Bluegreen, Diamond, Holiday Inn Group, Holiday Club, Silverleaf, Fiestva, Shell, VI

and at least these 2 by the exchange company
RCI, Redweek.

Everyone has their own shortcoming and strong aspects. Your best bet is first figure out what you like to do to consider a good vacation, than what you willing to make plan to achieve that, than list your consideration point (internal exchange selection possibility, extenal exchange power, purchase cost, club due, MF, exchange cost internally, what you can do if you can not use your points and how much charge it will be for eaxh different options, how flexible in the reservation, how flexible to move your point around). Than only after that, someone maybe able to tell you based on your criteria, his/her own club may not be best or maybe good fit for you.

Jya-ning

[Hobbitess Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Hobbitess]

I agree with Jya-ning that it's really not possible to research all the options with any accuracy. It seems to me the whole reason you'd want a points system is to exchange easily without dealing with RCI or paying extra fees, so one quick way to shorten your list is to look at the maps of resorts in each points system. "Shell only has two resorts I'd ever want to go to? Okay, Shell's off the list."

The advantage of using maps as your first filter is it takes next to no effort - every system I've ever looked into the maps are on the website and available to anyone, and if you know there are places you really want to go or if you know you want x-number of resorts within driving distance or whatever, a glance at the map and you're done. Either what you want is there, or it isn't.

OTOH, for us, kitchens are non-negotiable. We want a kitchen, a real kitchen with an oven and stuff, in 2BR units wherever it is we want to go. If you already have an RCI membership, that one's not too tough to research, but if you don't, it can be a challenge, because a lot of points systems you have to be a member to get to the floor plans or otherwise find out what sort of kitchen set up the units have. So even though it's a non-negotiable, it isn't something I'd research first thing, because it takes too much effort per system.

Knowing what you want is good. If you can cut down your list of possibilities with stuff easy to research, then you can start asking questions or otherwise looking into the more obscure things with a much shorter list.