Starwood question

[ingeborgdot Member Find all posts View Profile Close ingeborgdot]

Anyone belong to starwood group?

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

There are a number of us that own Starwood properties.

[ingeborgdot Member Find all posts View Profile Close ingeborgdot]

What can you tell me about them? Do you like them? They are a nice property.

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

Your question is very broad. I would suggest that you do a search to see what threads come up.

Starwood did a few changes last year which changed the exchange structure with Interval International for non Network owners. This has created an uproar as owners digested the impact the change had on the perceived value of their ownership. I'll let you decide how you want to interpret the change. If you are buying to use and go to the same place, those changes should have little impact for you. Your concern, if you're buying, will just be the maintenance fees. However, what maintenance fees are and what's happened to them over time should be something you look at regardless of what timeshare you are looking at buying, not just Starwood ones.

Overall the quality of the Sheraton and Westin resorts is quite high. I haven't sold any of my units so that might give you an indication of my level of satisfaction with them.

[ingeborgdot Member Find all posts View Profile Close ingeborgdot]

What is a network owner? Buying to use? Is that not why a person buys? Sorry if I am misunderstanding there. We would be buying to mainly trade out through II and to use the 12 extra weeks you get (ones you buy for very cheap). Our maintenance fees would be to me very reasonable. They are much cheaper than most but we are looking to buy at a resort that has very low maintenance overhead at this point as it does not matter which resort you get because there is no difference in trading power of any of the resorts.