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With Bluegreen, you can use ANY exchange company to exchange for a week you want. This is important since many people have had trouble with RCI. And, given it's relatively low maintenance fees, I consider it one of the really great Universal traders.
You can use it with RCI, but you can also use it with RCI Points if you have such an ownership. Depending on how many points you own, you can get RCI Points for between $.0040 - $.0078 per RCI Point. At that rate, it is cost effective to use RCI Points for airfares.
You can exchange with Interval International. I prefer II over RCI. Many Bluegreen resorts qualify for an Accommodation Certificate that allows them to book an extra week for a cheap rate. For instance, I am at Disney's Old Key West resort in an awesome 2 bedroom unit this week on an AC that I got for depositing a white week into II. That AC cost me $299.
With Bluegreen, you can exchange through SFX. SFX is known as a company that enables owners high quality, like for like exchanges. I have not explored it much using Bluegreen, but I just used SFX to get a nice 2 bedroom Oceanfront unit at Solara Surfside off their sell off list. So, I know they take that resort. I would reserve a 1 bedroom Spring unit at Solara Surfside in November and you will get 3 weeks. Your original exchange and 2 bonus weeks (one in Mexico). And, these are all high quality weeks. If you sign up for platinum ownership, you can trade for a 2 bedroom instead of a 1 bedroom unit.
Dial an exchange is an alternative many people here like. DAE will trade anything for anything. It's free to join. All you need to do is book a 2000 point studio at Big Cedar (cost between $50-100) for next January and you put in a request at DAE for anything you want. If it comes through, that will be the cheapest exchange you will ever make. If it doesn't, cancel the point reservation and rebook for something else. But, at such a low cost, it's worth depositing since anything you get will be a trade up. DAE has good availability in Europe and the South Pacific.
Plus, you can always direct exchange a Bluegreen resort for anything available. I was just offered a direct exchange this week that I didn't take for a Spring unit at the Royal Mayan in Cancun with an owner who wants to go to Daytona Seabreeze. That would have been a good direct exchange.
There are other independent exchange companies, but I haven't used them. They include HTSE, TPI. I am sure there are Bluegreen weeks that they will take. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who have used a Bluegreen resort to trade in those independent exchange companies.
You can use it with RCI, but you can also use it with RCI Points if you have such an ownership. Depending on how many points you own, you can get RCI Points for between $.0040 - $.0078 per RCI Point. At that rate, it is cost effective to use RCI Points for airfares.
You can exchange with Interval International. I prefer II over RCI. Many Bluegreen resorts qualify for an Accommodation Certificate that allows them to book an extra week for a cheap rate. For instance, I am at Disney's Old Key West resort in an awesome 2 bedroom unit this week on an AC that I got for depositing a white week into II. That AC cost me $299.
With Bluegreen, you can exchange through SFX. SFX is known as a company that enables owners high quality, like for like exchanges. I have not explored it much using Bluegreen, but I just used SFX to get a nice 2 bedroom Oceanfront unit at Solara Surfside off their sell off list. So, I know they take that resort. I would reserve a 1 bedroom Spring unit at Solara Surfside in November and you will get 3 weeks. Your original exchange and 2 bonus weeks (one in Mexico). And, these are all high quality weeks. If you sign up for platinum ownership, you can trade for a 2 bedroom instead of a 1 bedroom unit.
Dial an exchange is an alternative many people here like. DAE will trade anything for anything. It's free to join. All you need to do is book a 2000 point studio at Big Cedar (cost between $50-100) for next January and you put in a request at DAE for anything you want. If it comes through, that will be the cheapest exchange you will ever make. If it doesn't, cancel the point reservation and rebook for something else. But, at such a low cost, it's worth depositing since anything you get will be a trade up. DAE has good availability in Europe and the South Pacific.
Plus, you can always direct exchange a Bluegreen resort for anything available. I was just offered a direct exchange this week that I didn't take for a Spring unit at the Royal Mayan in Cancun with an owner who wants to go to Daytona Seabreeze. That would have been a good direct exchange.
There are other independent exchange companies, but I haven't used them. They include HTSE, TPI. I am sure there are Bluegreen weeks that they will take. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who have used a Bluegreen resort to trade in those independent exchange companies.
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