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We have been bluegreen members for two years and love it. bought resale. we have never used rci, but we want to go to Cabo next year and stay at Playa Granda. Can anyone give some advise about booking and trading. I have no idea where to begin. I just called bluegreen and girl that I talked to did not appear to know much either. thanks for any help! d
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I'm not answering the question just trying to clear a few points of your request. Have you just bought a resale timeshare, are you/or are you not an RCI member? if so, are you a points or weeks RCI member? -
i bought two years ago through resale. we are RCI members and I have weeks through RCI. thanks for any help that you can give me. dComment
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1. Make a reservation with BG. (Tell them that you might give it to RCI so they will give you the correct day of the week checkin.)Originally posted by charlestonboy View Post
2. Call RCI and deposit that unit week with RCI.
3. As soon as RCI confirms that you are allowed to make that deposit, start an ongoing search for Playa Granda in the time frame you want to go.
4. Hope that someone deposits a week at Playa Granda and that you are highest in Trading Power so you get it. Trading Power is the only tricky part about exchanging through RCI. You, of course, want to use as few BG points as possible for your deposit. But a blue week at a tired resort will not get you a red week in a highly sought after resort with few deposits. I have no idea regarding how many Playa Granda deposits are made or how highly it is sought after. Of course, you have no control over that. What you can control is your deposit. One factor that affects Trading Power is when you deposit. So deposit at 11 months out from the date of the deposit. At Christmas Mountain, a 4th of July deposit is better than an early April week in mud time. (Note that your deposit is good for up to two years after the date of the reservation. So you have 2 years and 11 months to use your deposit.) The larger the unit, the higher the Trading Power but it takes more BG points. So, you have to weigh those factors in deciding what to deposit. Check the RCI web pages for their definition of Trading Power for more details.
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Ok, typically if you are looking to exchange your existing Timeshare for another for 2010, you have to bank your timeshare with RCI. To do this you normally have to pay your maintenance fees for the timeshare year you are looking to exchange. This means if you want to exchange your timeshare usage for 2010 on the exchange you will have to pay your 2010 fees to do so. If you are using a 2009 week for exchange, and you have already paid it up, you are already up and running.
The next thing I do is to phone my resort, they deposit my fixed week into the RCI exchange. Once in your week will be given a weighting, which means depending on trading power you will be given XXX number of potential exchanges. Solid red week resorts would normally get more available exchanges than say a white or blue unit, it depends on what your unit is. Another thing affecting trading power is whether you own a studio, 1 bedroom, 2 bedroom etc.
You then go to RCI on-line, login and hit the exchange button and a list of thousands of potential exchanges will come up. The next part is the awkward, and sometimes demoralizing part, as you already have a resort in mind, you may find once you have deposited your week the resort might not be available, obviously it depends on other Cabo resort owners exchanging. Unfortunately, I dont think you can then back out of the exchange program, I would phone RCI and ask that question first. When I go into the exchange program I always go in with an open mind and go for what takes my fancy. There are usually some great exchanges available.
I hope this helps a littleComment
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I just checked a studio deposit I have with RCI and found the following for Playa Grande Resort (RCI #4364). (The number in brackets is the number of units that are available against my deposit.)
May 2009 [5]
June 2009 [6]
August 2009 [18]
September 2009 [21]
November 2009 [2]
December 2009 [1]
July 2010 [2]
Unit sizes are
Hotel or better [55]
Studio or better [55]
1 Bedroom or better [20]
2 Bedrooms or better [2]
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Correct. As soon as you give your deposit to RCI, they may give it to someone else. However, there are other exchange companies where you can search first and deposit when you want to make the exchange but I have not used them.Originally posted by Kentonmag View Post
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thanks for all of the help!! i am slowing getting the picture. I want a 1 bedroom at player, so do I need to trade a one bedroom? I will have about 8000 points to try and book something. dComment
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If you check back with crwisconsin from 3 posts age he did a search with a studio he has in the program and was offered up to a 2 bedroom, it's hit and miss.Originally posted by charlestonboy View Post
I split a Las Vegas one week 2 bedroom lockout into 2 x 1 bedrooms in the RCI exchange program, earlier this year, and was able to get 2 consecutive weeks in a 2 bedroom in Hawaii in October.Comment
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that sounds great. i am getting ready to take the plunge. thanks everyone for your help.Comment
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just trade thanksgiving week at golf world in a 1 bedroom. does anyone know what kind of trading power that will have. RCI said that it will be friday before I will be able to look. thanks, dsComment
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When I've traded my resort in Vegas, once it's deposited I can look on my exchange options after 5 mins. Not sure why you would have to wait until Friday??Originally posted by charlestonboy View PostComment
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RCI must verify with Bluegreen the resort/phase, unit number, etc., and it always takes a couple days. Never just five minutes.Comment
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Ok - I'm not familiar with Bluegreen, I always contact my resort to deposit my weeks with RCI, hence the short wait period.Comment
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Doesn't work that way because we don't have weeks - this is a points system, so the points have to become a week within the BG system. Then we call RCI to deposit, but they have to perform their own due diligence.
RCI would not know what to do with Bluegreen points. So we make 2 phone calls and it seems RCI probably has to contact BG also. whatever ...Comment
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