What Marriot to buy and how to find?

[myip Member Find all posts View Profile Close myip]

You should get platinum week in Marriott Legends Edge or Horizon in Branson. Both can be get for under $7000. Both are 2 bedroom. The maintenance fees are reasonable. Marriott Legends Edge belongs to Florida Club. You can book some of Florida resort like your home resort in 6 months without going to exchange in II. I think Marriott Manor is overrated and the price is higher

[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

We own a week at Marriott Desert Springs Villas (MDSV-II) and usually bank our week. I have gotten some really good trades with it. I have not tried to book a week in the spring at our resort. It is extremely frustrating not to be able to get to your resort when you want.

That is how I feel about owning at Laguna Surf. I call right at the exact time and day and have to hope for the best. It's a nerve wracking experience and then quite a let down when you don't get a week . . . and then you have to repeat the same process week after week, until you finally "get" lucky!

Nanoose, we have had the same experience too at both resorts where you own and we went to the LS annual meeting last Saturday and heard other owners complaining too and even more so for the summer weeks just like the Marriott NCVs. They even compared us to their lousy system as we have owners here who own at both resorts but the Board is working hard to get it resolved but how can they do it with a floating system when everyone wants the same few weeks and the best views in a timeshare project? It cannot be done but they can improve on the dropped calls.

This is why we prefer fixed week/units and plan a vacation around these dates. We sold our DSV-I as we mainly bought it for use but couldn't deal with the frustration of reserving a week anymore.

LS has made one big improvement already and promised no more dropped calls either. I will send you a pm about it and in response to something else in your post too. I have an idea.

[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

You should get platinum week in Marriott Legends Edge or Horizon in Branson. Both can be get for under $7000. Both are 2 bedroom. The maintenance fees are reasonable. Marriott Legends Edge belongs to Florida Club. You can book some of Florida resort like your home resort in 6 months without going to exchange in II. I think Marriott Manor is overrated and the price is higher

If everybody buys two weeks because making reservations with one single week is getting too difficult, you soon have no option but to buy a third week and so on. It is a very smart sales tool for the Marriott and their investors but very unfair to people, who only can afford buying one single week or don't want anymore. JMHO.

There is a way to improve it as they have done it at the LS but that would hurt the Marriott sales!

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Welcome OP to TS4M's and the Marriott forum. IMO, you'd be better off renting if you like going someplace different every year. Timeshares can be rented relatively cheaply, even Marriott's, and you won't have the cap costs of purchase or the ongoing expenses and time investment to maximize your purchase, the latter of which you should not underestimate

Good luck!

Pat