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[dale7 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dale7]

and you see these using diamondresorts.com and your Club points?

Hey, Dale. you are giving me Kaanapali...I am talking about Point at Poipu.

Sorry I did KBC. When I did the PP search for your dates I got nothing.

[dale7 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dale7]

From what I can see you if you are not a owner you have to book right 10 months. If you want me to look more than 10 months let me know.

This is as close as I could get.

2 Bedroom Garden View * 2/22/2009 3/1/2009 8,500
2 Bedroom Ocean View * 2/22/2009 3/1/2009 11,500
2 Bedroom Ocean View * 2/23/2009 3/2/2009 12,650
2 Bedroom Ocean View * 2/24/2009 3/3/2009 12,650
2 Bedroom Ocean View * 2/25/2009 3/4/2009 12,650
2 Bedroom Ocean View * 2/26/2009 3/5/2009 12,650
2 Bedroom Ocean View * 2/27/2009 3/6/2009 11,500
2 Bedroom Ocean View * 2/28/2009 3/7/2009 11,500

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

From what I can see you if you are not a owner you have to book right 10 months. If you want me to look more than 10 months let me know.

This is as close as I could get.

2 Bedroom Garden View * 2/22/2009 3/1/2009 8,500
2 Bedroom Ocean View * 2/22/2009 3/1/2009 11,500
2 Bedroom Ocean View * 2/23/2009 3/2/2009 12,650
2 Bedroom Ocean View * 2/24/2009 3/3/2009 12,650
2 Bedroom Ocean View * 2/25/2009 3/4/2009 12,650
2 Bedroom Ocean View * 2/26/2009 3/5/2009 12,650
2 Bedroom Ocean View * 2/27/2009 3/6/2009 11,500
2 Bedroom Ocean View * 2/28/2009 3/7/2009 11,500

That's pretty close to what I would expect. It's way too late for August of this year - and August fills up pretty quickly anyway. As an owner who usually visits in August I find that if I don't reserve before the 10-month window opens, it's tough to make a reservation in August.

Major holidays are booked almost as soon as they become available. In fact, quite a few of them are booked as continuations of previous weeks, which gives an owner an even earlier reservation window. (If an owner is staying for consecutive weeks in the same unit, the owner can reserve the entire stay on the first day reservations open for the first week. Accordingly, many people who own multiple weeks will book holiday weeks such as Christmas as a continuation week. People who then try to reserve Christmas or New Years as a single week often have limited availability.)

Winter is whale season, so weeks in January and February are very high demand. Any weeks in that period not booked by owners will get taken very quickly by club members when the 10-month window opens. The weeks that you are seeing above are right at the ten-week window. I suspect that if you check back in a week, none of those will be available, but the next week might appear.

[Werner Member Find all posts View Profile Close Werner]

Steve, How do you look over such a wide range of dates? Are you using the DRI website? I can't get the site to look over more than a week and even with "flexible dates" it only covers the two weeks around the specified week.

Werner

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

Steve, How do you look over such a wide range of dates? Are you using the DRI website? I can't get the site to look over more than a week and even with "flexible dates" it only covers the two weeks around the specified week.

Werner

Remember that I'm posting mostly about my experiences before joining the Club. So most of my experience was using Ohana VIP, talking with someone at the resort about availability at different times of the year.

The last couple of years Sunterra reservations got out account messed up and we couldn't get it fixed until after the 10-month window opened up for general club reservations in August. Within one week after the window opened up for the weeks we were trying to get, all of the Club inventory was gone.

I agree that the flexible date search at DRI is a weakness. I sent an e-mail to Stephen Cloobeck about it, and got a letter back from a VP thanking me for the suggestion, agreeing it was a good idea, and promising to look into implementing it. It was nice getting a personal letter back, but I wisely decided to not hold my breath waiting for them to actually do something.

[dale7 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dale7]

Steve, How do you look over such a wide range of dates? Are you using the DRI website? I can't get the site to look over more than a week and even with "flexible dates" it only covers the two weeks around the specified week.

Werner

The way that I do it is that I put in a check for weeks spaced 3 weeks apart with "flexible dates" this way it only takes a few minutes to check a whole year.

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

The way that I do it is that I put in a check for weeks spaced 3 weeks apart with "flexible dates" this way it only takes a few minutes to check a whole year.

I did that - using dates spaced two weeks apart - to check availability at the Clock Tower for a short ski trip. Got what I was looking for too; three nights the last week of March.

That was what triggered the letter to Cloobeck. I knew the area I wanted to visit, and was flexible as to both time period and number of days. The site is poorly set up to do that, however.

I believe the searches also filter based on the number of nights you select. If you are searching for one week, it won't show partial weeks.

[Werner Member Find all posts View Profile Close Werner]

II is so easy, especially if you are looking for a < 60 day, 1/2 points escape to anywhere, all you do is put in dates and click on "all regions" and you get a nice list to study. When I saw the long lists of availabilities in this post I thought someone had found a hidden "search all dates" button. Thanks for the techniques.

Werner

[dale7 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dale7]

Thanks Dale. How about August 2008 and Jan 15-Feb 15, 2009 ?

If you are willing to change rooms, if you put in 4 day stay you can see some dates open in Jan 11 to Jan 18 2009 at PP.

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

If you are willing to change rooms, if you put in 4 day stay you can see some dates open in Jan 11 to Jan 18 2009 at PP.

yeh thanks for the tip. searches of 4 or 5 days yields several weeks in Jan 09. But who wants to go for only 4 or 5 days? Oh, I see then we have to tack on a week or so somewhere else. Hmmm gotta think about this, ah can I call it 'situation'?