10 best places for trading

[dw24 Member Find all posts View Profile Close dw24]

What are the 10 best locations for trading power? U.S. or worldwide

[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

I hope this is okay to publish as I just copied it from Tug. If not, mods kindly delete, but the top 30 rated timeshares are listed below. There is a correlation between these and the 10 best places for trading due to their desirability.

Again, places and weeks are the key !

I would throw in London and New York, too.
I realize that this doesn't answer your query exactly, but it does feed into it.
Good question.


From TUG:
Resort Name and Review Link RCI/II Rating (#)
1 Four Seasons Residence Club Aviara
North America, USA, CA, Carlsbad FSA 9.73 (61)

2 Royal Sands, The
North America, Mexico, Quintana Roo, Cancun RSD 9.61 (149)

3 Villas at Disney's Wilderness Lodge, The
North America, USA, FL, Lake Buena Vista DWL 9.55 (43)

4 Four Seasons Residence Club Scottsdale at Troon North
North America, USA, AZ, Scottsdale SCT 9.53 (32)

5 Disney's Old Key West Resort
North America, USA, FL, Lake Buena Vista DVO 9.49 (105)

6 Westin Kierland Villas
North America, USA, AZ, Scottsdale WKV, WK1 9.46 (27)

7 Royal Mayan, The
North America, Mexico, Quintana Roo, Cancun 2694 RMB 9.45 (181)

8 Royal Caribbean, The
North America, Mexico, Quintana Roo, Cancun RCB 9.45 (160)

9 Royal Islander, The
North America, Mexico, Quintana Roo, Cancun ROI 9.45 (127)

10 Marriott's Waiohai Beach Club
North America, USA, HI, Koloa MAW 9.43 (48)

11 St. James Place
North America, USA, CO, Beaver Creek 2266 SJP 9.43 (43)

12 Marriott's Frenchman's Cove

Caribbean, U.S. Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, St. Thomas MFC 9.40 (10)
13 Hyatt Mountain Lodge
North America, USA, CO, Avon HBK 9.38 (17)
14 Westin Ka'anapali Ocean Resort Villas
North America, USA, Hi, Lahaina KAA, KA1 9.37 (58)
15 Harborside Resort at Atlantis
Caribbean, Bahamas, Bahamas, Nassau HRA 9.37 (50)
16 Disney's BoardWalk Villas
North America, USA, FL, Lake Buena Vista DBW 9.35 (57)
17 Marriott's Grande Ocean
North America, USA, SC, Hilton Head Island MGO 9.33 (127)
18 TradeWinds Cruise Club-British Virgin Islands
Caribbean, British Virgin Islands, VI, Road Town 6068 9.32 (19)
19 Marriott's Marbella Beach Resort
Europe, Spain, , Málaga MMB 9.30 (47)
20 Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort
North America, USA, SC, Hilton Head Island DVH 9.30 (33)
21 Big Cedar Wilderness Club
North America, USA, MO, Ridgedale 6311 9.30 (20)
22 Marriott's Ko Olina Beach Club
North America, USA, HI, Oahu MKO 9.29 (53)
23 Marriott's OceanWatch Villas at Grande Dunes
North America, USA, SC, Myrtle Beach MOW 9.29 (28)
24 Royal Haciendas, The
North America, Mexico, Quintana Roo, Solidaridad RHD 9.29 (12)
25 Anfi Beach Club
Europe, Canary Islands, Spain, Gran Canaria, Arguineguin 3081 9.26 (17)
26 Marriott's Aruba Ocean Club
Caribbean, Aruba, Aruba, Palm Beach MAO 9.23 (75)
27 Lawrence Welk Resort Villas
North America, USA, CA, Escondido 1540 LWR 9.21 (209)
28 Pueblo Bonito Emerald Bay
North America, Mexico, Sinaloa, Mazatlan 5792 9.21 (17)
29 Marriott's Cypress Harbour
North America, USA, FL, Orlando 2619 MCP 9.20 (188)
30 Grand Mayan Nuevo Vallarta, The
North America, Mexico, Nayarit, Nuevo Vallarta

[dw24 Member Find all posts View Profile Close dw24]

what is the Rating (#) at the end of each listing?

[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

what is the Rating (#) at the end of each listing?

TUG's quality rating score . The rating is achieved by members who have stayed there and scored the quality based on several categories; cleanliness, service, condition of unit, location, ammenities, etc.

A ten would be perfect. A 0-3 would be condemmned-dismal, etc.

[dw24 Member Find all posts View Profile Close dw24]

thanks,

does TUG rate all timeshares worldwide.
are there separate ratings for winter, summer, fall, spring?
How would I find out about Massanutten's rating? or any other ts for that matter?

[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

thanks,

does TUG rate all timeshares worldwide.
are there separate ratings for winter, summer, fall, spring?
How would I find out about Massanutten's rating? or any other ts for that matter?

This information requires a TUG membership which is about $15. It is money well spent.
I'd give you more info, but I may be violating Tug's bylaws. Sorry.
Go to Timeshare Users Group - The first and largest online community of timeshare owners providing timeshare resort reviews, timeshare ratings and timeshare advice and join. If you wish, please use me, Beaglemom3, as a reference.
Yes, there is info there re: Massanutten.
Beags.

[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

There is a recent review of Massanutten. It has a decent rating of 7.86 based on several reviews, the most recent being Feb-Mar -08.
B.

[Lisa P Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Lisa P]

The best places to vacation (high ratings on TUG, for example) certainly matter a great deal if you plan to vacation at the resort yourself regularly. But these may actually NOT be the best places for owning, to trade OUT (trade power) regularly.

Resort quality, location, unit size, week# or season, guest reviews, brand name - MANY more things go into trade power than just the guest experience, luxury features or brand name/awards which seem to heavily influence TUG ratings. Also, highly rated (generally more upscale) resorts tend to have some of the highest purchase prices and maintenance fees in the industry! That makes them LESS desirable to own when planning to use regularly as a trade week.

The "10 Best" for trading will not be named properties. People who've found trading gems don't want to sabotage their own trading by sharing too much info about it. A great trader is great largely because the exchange company gets fewer deposits than requests for that resort and week. When people boast in a public forum of great trade power, it encourages lots of others seeking great traders to buy there, and deposit their weeks for trading, thus increasing inventory and potentially decreasing trade power. Gotcha!

Just look for whatever is obviously most appealing to the masses, where there is limited supply of timeshares.

*** School break and major holiday prime weeks at high quality resorts ***
Limited supply of timeshare resorts in appealing vacation destinations;
Summer, accessible beachfront weeks (California, the Carolinas - drive-to, not tied to air travel);
Ski holiday weeks in the Rockies, especially ski-in/ski-out;
Southwest FL during snowbird season;
Upper midwest during summer;
Urban locations during good touring weather, spring or summer;
If a brand name has many resorts in places where you'd like to visit, consider buying with them - the exchange companies often boost trade power when trading into a sister resort or you may be able to trade internally without even using an exchange company;
Other than peak leaf-peeping in certain locations, avoid most autumn weeks.

HTH!

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

Looking at the top 10 there would indicate that Cancun was clearly the best place to own in the world. Not so, they just happen to have 4 great resorts there. The best locations is a bit vague- as location is one thing and the time period at that location is another. Cape Cod is a great trader- but mainly in summer- try giving away a mid January week there. What is really important is demand at a location during a time period. Demand is important, but so is supply. Orlando has a lot of demand-but it's a pretty easy trade with supply of around 100 resorts , including several of the world's largest.
If one is looking to own at an ideal place for trading, they should also consider year-round demand as low or no demand seasons can place a cost burden on the rest of the year in some cases.

[Joe L Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Joe L]

All good advise but from my research the best trading power comes from:

Cape Cod - Summer
Coastal California - Summer
Colorado Ski - Winter (Vail, Keystone, Breckenridge)
Myrtle Beach - Summer
Virginia Beach - Summer
Florida Panhandle - Summer

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

The best places to vacation (high ratings on TUG, for example) certainly matter a great deal if you plan to vacation at the resort yourself regularly. But these may actually NOT be the best places for owning, to trade OUT (trade power) regularly....

Right -- TUG's top 30 resorts are highest in resort quality. Trade power and quality are two entirely different things. In fact, RCI not only doesn't seem to boast trade power based on quality, its system actually reduces the trade potential of high quality resorts, by preventing them from trading into lower quality resorts.

In terms of high trade power, there are a number of good posts here. SoCal summer, upper midwest summer, Cape Cod summer, London and New York, Hawaii -- all strong. However, some of these locations are too expensive to be cost effective as traders.

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

As well there are "specialty" weeks that rent and trade very well, such as Scottdale/Phoenix and Florida units during March baseball spring training, etc.

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

what is the Rating (#) at the end of each listing?

the # in the (75) is the number of people who rated the resort

The rating number which is based on a scale of 1-10 would be 9.2 or 7.8

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

Right -- TUG's top 30 resorts are highest in resort quality. Trade power and quality are two entirely different things. In fact, RCI not only doesn't seem to boast trade power based on quality, its system actually reduces the trade potential of high quality resorts, by preventing them from trading into lower quality resorts.

In terms of high trade power, there are a number of good posts here. SoCal summer, upper midwest summer, Cape Cod summer, London and New York, Hawaii -- all strong. However, some of these locations are too expensive to be cost effective as traders.

The list Beags posted is where people WANT to trade into - and also the ones that are rated the highest.

I would add Caribbean week 51-52, 1-14
Northeast Coast summer
Locations near National Parks in summer
Ski Resorts out west weeks 51-52, 1-12

And then there are the Hotel Chains that have priority internal trading...Marriott, Starwood, Hyatt, HGVC, DVC

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

The list Beags posted is where people WANT to trade into - and also the ones that are rated the highest....

I'm not sure I understand you. The original poster asked for resorts or locations with high trading power. I don't think TUG's list of the 30 highest rated resorts really tells one much about trading power. I own at the Disney Vacation Club, but I doubt its trading power is all that high. There is currently no way to search online using the DVC, so I can't say for sure, but I definitely can (and do) trade into the DVC with just a moderate trader. If II will give me the DVC with just a moderate trader, I don't see how the DVC resorts can have very high trade power. I can trade into many of the other resorts in the TUG top 30 list with the same moderate trader. The others in the top 30 that I can't see are generally ones with internal trading preference. (I also can't use this moderate trader to see either of the Four Seasons, but that's probably a quality issue.)

So, even though people may enjoy staying at a particular resort, that's no guarantee of high trade power.