Smuggs joins Wyndham

[GrayFal Silver Contributor and supermoderator Find all posts View Profile Close GrayFal]

Thanks Pat.

This is what annoys me most:

Important Reminders about Your Reservation:
A Guest Confirmation is required for any unit that you, the owner of record, will not be personally occupying. If your guest arrives without a Guest Confirmation, a Guest Confirmation fee will be collected prior to having access to the unit.
If you have more than one unit reserved for dates that overlap within the same time period and you have not obtained the required Guest Confirmation(s) at least 15 days prior to check-in, the additional reservation(s) will be subject to cancellation without notice, and the corresponding points will be forfeited in accordance with the cancellation policy.

I know that Jya-Ning frequently does family trips and is now forced to pay those CRAZY high guest cert fees - they used to be $25 3 years ago and now they are $99 online and $129? if u call.

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

if you have the <60 day discount it is almost impossible to find anything

Perhaps more importantly, if you have that discount, you paid retail.

The GC fee is annoying. For reunion-like things, you can get around a little bit of it by having more than one owner on your deeds---each owner can be booked into a different unit, and you get one more.

All in all, for personal use, I'm pretty happy with Wyndham. They have a nice portfolio of resorts, availability is pretty good if you plan a little in advance, and if you are patient about which deed you buy, you can keep your fees reasonably low. Even paying the infrequent nuisance fee, I don't feel like I get bad value out of it. I still don't think I'd pay to convert a week given resale values though.

[chriskre Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close chriskre]

I know that Jya-Ning frequently does family trips and is now forced to pay those CRAZY high guest cert fees - they used to be $25 3 years ago and now they are $99 online and $129? if u call.

The GC fee is annoying. For reunion-like things, you can get around a little bit of it by having more than one owner on your deeds---each owner can be booked into a different unit, and you get one more.

This isssssss ridiculous.
When I reserved 2 studios going with Mom, they wanted a guest fee but luckily I put her on the deed and didn't remember it, but the vacation guide noticed it in our account since I did it over the phone, so was able to save the fee, but this is truly an abuse of owners.

[Jya-Ning Silver Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close Jya-Ning]

I know that Jya-Ning frequently does family trips and is now forced to pay those CRAZY high guest cert fees - they used to be $25 3 years ago and now they are $99 online and $129? if u call.

Actually, can no longer rent more points from fellow owners when needed probably hurt most. The guest certify I can go around with wife one unit, I be on another. May need to add kids when they grow older. But it is kind irritate, since before, if you are there, it is no GC need for any units. And with president unit often hard to get, it start to be painful. I can see they want to restrict rental business, on the other hand, not everyone can get 3 BD or 4 BD when they need. And not everyone want to have all family members to be on the same room. It actually pushes the renting from VIP owner close to be better than actual own it.

I think new RCI conversion probably will kill a great % of the small ownership and now will force a lot of people even with bigger point size to credit pool every year first, since if there is anything left, it may take more planning to deposit them to RCI. Make bigger renters much more possible.

Will be very interesting to see the point size they give to the resort.

Jya-Ning

[carlroyer Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close carlroyer]

Very cool!

As a Wyndham owner, and Vermont native, this allows us to go to VT and use our Wyndham points instead of doing a transfer through RCI. We've stayed their off season, as well as put my family there off season using RCI. But it's now expensive with the $199 RCI transfer fee... So should be a good deal!