3 ways you can exchange your timeshare….

[alexsmith Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close alexsmith]

I would like to share an important issue while we are exhanging our timeshare.
I think there are three ways to exchange your timeshare and these are as under :

1. Direct Exchange

The most basic way or exchanging your timeshare is through owner to owner. This requires finding another timeshare owner willing to exchange their week for yours. Each of you would notify the respected resort and notify them of the other owner using your week.

2. Exchange through the Resor

Some resorts offer and exchange program. If your resort is one it gives you the option to exchange your week for another week at a different location within the resorts group of resorts. Many timeshare management companies will offer this benefit as part of there management services.

3. Timeshare Exchange Company

Timeshare exchange companies allow you to “bank” your week with them in exchange you get to choose from there inventory of weeks that other timeshare owners have banked. Also resorts will bank there unsold timeshare weeks with Exchange companies to increase there inventory. Your week and room size will determine your trading power with the exchange company.

Alex

[GrayFal Silver Contributor and supermoderator Find all posts View Profile Close GrayFal]

I would like to share an important issue while we are exchanging our timeshare.
I think there are three ways to exchange your timeshare and these are as under :

1. Direct Exchange

The most basic way or exchanging your timeshare is through owner to owner. This requires finding another timeshare owner willing to exchange their week for yours. Each of you would notify the respected resort and notify them of the other owner using your week.

2. Exchange through the Resort

Some resorts offer and exchange program. If your resort is one it gives you the option to exchange your week for another week at a different location within the resorts group of resorts. Many timeshare management companies will offer this benefit as part of there management services.

3. Timeshare Exchange Company

Timeshare exchange companies allow you to “bank” your week with them in exchange you get to choose from there inventory of weeks that other timeshare owners have banked. Also resorts will bank there unsold timeshare weeks with Exchange companies to increase there inventory. Your week and room size will determine your trading power with the exchange company.

Alex

Hello Alex - I believe number 2 is one few people explore or even think to ask about with their resorts.
It is a good point to bring up.

Welcome to TS4Ms

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

I thought Alex means in #2 program like Wyndham, HGVC, Blue Green, Diamond, Shell, Royal Holiday, Fiestva ... etc.

Add one more, rent out yours and rent another's.

Jya-Ning

[GrayFal Silver Contributor and supermoderator Find all posts View Profile Close GrayFal]

I thought Alex means in #2 program like Wyndham, HGVC, Blue Green, Diamond, Shell, Royal Holiday, Fiestva ... etc.

Add one more, rent out yours and rent another's.

Jya-Ning

Yes, it can be a points system but as an owner/member of marriott's florida club - I can reserve at 4 other FL Marriotts within 6 months of check-in without paying an additional fee.

As a Divi owner, I can reserve in my home resort during my season for free and at a Different Divi/same season for $89.


Some people just don't know to ask.

[alexsmith Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close alexsmith]

Thanks everybody for you nice reply to my post.

Exchange with resort is absolutely the best way of time share exchange. Off course, Timeshare exchange is a method of replacing your one timeshare week for another. Basically Exchange time share provides the opportunity to vacation owners to visit other resorts in locations around the world, and also provide the facility to travel during different times of the year. I think more than 75 percent of timeshare owners buy time share with the intention of swapping with others.

Friends don't forget to post your comments to my post.

Alex Smith

[Tony Tamer Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Tony Tamer]

Trading my timeshare for another closer to home

I have an A-1 resort- Starwood Vistana and it's as close as it can be to DisneyWorld. My daughter is 24 now and I live in NC; I have little interest in the Mouse anymore and I don't like to travel that far. I'd like to trade my red flag floating week 9, sleeps 6 , 2 TV's ,full kitchen ,all amenities etc. for a lesser timeshare closer to me in NC. My maintenance due's are $690 and it's been refurbished and completely updated as of this May. I'd trade straight up.- Tony Tamer

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

When I purchased a summer fixed week at the sheraton bouganvillas the two things that sealed the deal was an option for an additional bonus week and an internal trade 79 dollars I can switch weeks. The internal trade is a big plus for me .

[ptprism Member Find all posts View Profile Close ptprism]

What about #1?

I think that #1--Direct Exchange between owners-- is the most overlooked by far. I have made about 8-10 such trades during my years of ownership and would have made many, many more if I could find owners willing (or trusting enough) to do the same. Virtually every trade I have made has worked out well and left us happy--as well as pleased the people we traded with.

I read these postings all the time and listen to people complaining constantly about the price to exchange through RCI or II. Then they complain that there is never a decent exchange, or that the couselor was rude, or any other number of things. If more of us would just REALISTICALLY post our exchanges and trade requests where other owners could see them, you could avoid most of those problems.

I own nine weeks and I'm always looking for somebody who wants to swap. I just don't want Williamsburg, Las Vegas, or a ski resort. Beyond that, I'm open to discussion. Why don't more people want to swap like this???

What do you think?

[Tony Tamer Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Tony Tamer]

Want to exchange ?

I think that #1--Direct Exchange between owners-- is the most overlooked by far. I have made about 8-10 such trades during my years of ownership and would have made many, many more if I could find owners willing (or trusting enough) to do the same. Virtually every trade I have made has worked out well and left us happy--as well as pleased the people we traded with.

I read these postings all the time and listen to people complaining constantly about the price to exchange through RCI or II. Then they complain that there is never a decent exchange, or that the couselor was rude, or any other number of things. If more of us would just REALISTICALLY post our exchanges and trade requests where other owners could see them, you could avoid most of those problems.

I own nine weeks and I'm always looking for somebody who wants to swap. I just don't want Williamsburg, Las Vegas, or a ski resort. Beyond that, I'm open to discussion. Why don't more people want to swap like this???

What do you think?

I have a very nice place at Starwood Vistana in Orlando, right beside Disney. It's a red flaf floating week. Week 9. Just this May is was refurbished. It has 2 big bedrooms, two TV's all amenities, full kitchen etc. I'd like to exchange the week, but I'd most like to sell cheap or trade for something closer to home ( North Carolina ) , it doesn't have to be as nice a place as mine.R U Interested

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

I own nine weeks and I'm always looking for somebody who wants to swap. I just don't want Williamsburg, Las Vegas, or a ski resort. Beyond that, I'm open to discussion. Why don't more people want to swap like this???

What do you think?

Hello ptprism,

What weeks do you have that you wish to exchange?

I am particularly interested in Ireland/UK/Europe 22 April - 19 June 2009 and then
Austrailia/NZ/Bora Bora/Tahiti/Hawaii for 10/23/2009 to about March 2010.

I have about 40 weeks I need to figure out which exchange company is best to deposit them in. We have a few resorts in Mazatlan, Mexico that allowed weeks to accumulate and one where my husband paid MF for 20 years in advance. Playa Maria in Mazatlan recently told me I need to use 12 of our weeks before 12/31/08 or we'd lose them. I can deposit them with II but not RCI. In trying to compare exchange companies

I prefer to deposit with exchange companies that give the longest possible time to redeem the exchange (but hopefully will still be in business when I want the exchange). DAELive.com allows 3 years. I just found Interchange Timeshare that also allows 3 years. It claims to be the largest in Australia. I searched for references to them on TS4MS but the results included Platinum Interchange so I haven't been able to find comments yet.

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[ptprism Member Find all posts View Profile Close ptprism]

Trade with Tony

I have a very nice place at Starwood Vistana in Orlando, right beside Disney. It's a red flaf floating week. Week 9. Just this May is was refurbished. It has 2 big bedrooms, two TV's all amenities, full kitchen etc. I'd like to exchange the week, but I'd most like to sell cheap or trade for something closer to home ( North Carolina ) , it doesn't have to be as nice a place as mine.R U Interested

Hi Tony:

That's the spirit! Let's hope more people jump in on this. Your place sounds great, but I just live a few hours away from Orlando (Marco Island) and we go to Orlando on a regular basis, so that wouldn't work for me.

But anybody else out there interested in taking Tony up on a trade???

[ptprism Member Find all posts View Profile Close ptprism]

Hello ptprism,

What weeks do you have that you wish to exchange?

ID

I have weeks to trade at Hilton Head (Marriott Harbour Club) in Marco Island Florida (The Charter Club) Puerto Vallarta (Villa del Mar). All are 2 bedrooms.

I also have a studio at Pacifica Club in Ixtapa. It's an all-inclusive but using the owners unit, you don't have to take the AI if you don't want. We never do because there are so many good restaurants in Ixtapa and especially Zihua.

I don't have anything more exotic to exchange. Sorry!

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

Hello Alex - I believe number 2 is one few people explore or even think to ask about with their resorts.
It is a good point to bring up.

Welcome to TS4Ms

A 4th option might be to INTERNALLY BANK with the resort. However, I regret this now. I internally banked Sheriton Buganvilias in Puerto Vallarta for 2007 thinking I'd use it back to back when I used my 2008 week. We go to Mexico for October in Mazatlan & Nov-Feb in PV, then March in Mazatlan. But the Sheraton Buganvilias weeks would have been week 38 and 39. Too early for us since we drive down. I should have deposited it for RCI points in 2007 to use for our 2009 Europe bookings. But now I was ONLY able to deposit week 39 for 2008. They won't let me deposit the reservation for week that was originally 2007 because the contract said they ONLY work with RCI and RCI will ONLY take a deposit based on a current or future year.

However I internally banked Pueblo Bonito in Mazatlan in 2007. The let me deposit both weeks with no problem.

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

I have weeks to trade at Hilton Head (Marriott Harbour Club) in Marco Island Florida (The Charter Club) Puerto Vallarta (Villa del Mar). All are 2 bedrooms.

I also have a studio at Pacifica Club in Ixtapa. It's an all-inclusive but using the owners unit, you don't have to take the AI if you don't want. We never do because there are so many good restaurants in Ixtapa and especially Zihua.

I don't have anything more exotic to exchange. Sorry!

We are using our Villa Del Palmar for Christmas/NY in PV this season. Which season/weeks are your Villa del Mar weeks?

I grew up in Tampa and visited Marco Island in the late 1970s. I understand it is very developed. It would be a fun place to trade.

I'd like to go to Ixtapa but it won't be before 2011. 2008 winter is MZT/PV, 2009 Austrailia/South Pacific/Hawaii, 2009 is Cancun's Maya Riviera for the new Velas/Mayan Palace/El Cid for 22 weeks. We are keeping a 2000 Saturn to drive to Cancun in 2010 and leave in Mexico. Then in 2011 we can fly California to Cancun, get our car, visit Belize, more Mayan ruins (we went to the main ones in 2007), then cross over toward Alcupulco, Ixtapa up etc and probably leave the car around PV/MZT until the next season.

We are still trying to figure out the technicalities. We know a car must be at least 10 years old to be left in Mexico unless we have FM3 status.

Let me know if you need any of our places. Trying to rent excess inventory is more hassle than it is worth but trading makes sense.

[morgancita Member Find all posts View Profile Close morgancita]

When you say that "your week and room size will determine your trading power" do you mean if it's a fixed rather than floating week?