Quirks with using II??

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

I'm pretty much a neophyte with the II system. My membership is through DRI and I've had little reason to use their services. Now, however, I have some DRI points that will expire at the end of this year. There isn't anything in the DRI system for the remainder of this year that appears useful to me right now, so it appears my recourse is to burn them up in II prior to October 31. Accordingly I have been checking around in II for options.

In searching it seems that there may be some glitches. For example, if I do a search for all of Hawaii for October this year through August 2015, it comes back and says nothing is available. I've gotten that result regularly, which I find interesting. Then today I plugged in a search for just the period of October through December and I got a hit for Kona Coast resort the first week of December. If I go back and expand my search dates, it says nothing is available. If narrow them back down, Kona Coast Resort shows up.

So it seems as if there is a glitch. Are there other glitches of this type that in II that I should be aware of?

[scootr5 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close scootr5]

I've sometimes had it tell me "nothing available", hit search again, and units appear.

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

I do not use II thru a portal, I have several accounts however since 2001.

I find the best way to search is to pick your date range and then chose "search all destinations"

If you then click on Hawaii and you get an error that says there is no availability, reload the page 1-2 even 3 times.....
It is annoying, but it usually does the trick.

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

I did a "search all destinations" from October to August 2015 and got this.


The Kona Coast Resort Phase II
Kailua Kona , HI , USA
KON

Resort Details & Photos
Nov 30 2014 - Dec 07 2014
1 4 4

I then did a search for Big Island, HI and got the same result.

When I just entered "Hawaii" it said it could not get an exact match but prompted me to pick one of several Hawaiian destinations.....and I got the same results when I picked the Big Island.

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

I did a "search all destinations" from October to August 2015 and got this.


The Kona Coast Resort Phase II
Kailua Kona , HI , USA
KON

Resort Details & Photos
Nov 30 2014 - Dec 07 2014
1 4 4

I then did a search for Big Island, HI and got the same result.

When I just entered "Hawaii" it said it could not get an exact match but prompted me to pick one of several Hawaiian destinations.....and I got the same results when I picked the Big Island.

That's consistent with what I noted. So perhaps the glitch occurs when one selects for an entire destination area, such as by clicking on "Hawaii" on the map and then clicking on "Select All".

[scootr5 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close scootr5]

That's consistent with what I noted. So perhaps the glitch occurs when one selects for an entire destination area, such as by clicking on "Hawaii" on the map and then clicking on "Select All".

No, I've had it happen even when searching a specific resort code

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

I do not use II thru a portal, I have several accounts however since 2001.

I find the best way to search is to pick your date range and then chose "search all destinations"

If you then click on Hawaii and you get an error that says there is no availability, reload the page 1-2 even 3 times.....
It is annoying, but it usually does the trick.

This is what I do as well but usually just for getaway weeks. I just scored a nice getaway this morning.

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

Battling another quirk. Faust recently posted an extensive list of 2015 weeks available at the Point at Poipu that he can see with his deeded non-DRI Club Point at Poipu ownership. I cannot see any of that inventory when going into Interval using my DRI account.

I'd appreciate it if some other people who are non-DRI II members could do a search for 2015 at Point at Poipu and report back on what you find. I've also been in touch with a DRI support rep, who is also trying to find out what might be going on.

[scootr5 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close scootr5]

I tried searching for 2015 weeks there with both my CMV and a Sheraton 2 bedroom, and the searches returned nothing. Perhaps it's in some sort of preference period?

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

Well Steve, I found a bunch of units available at different resorts in Maui but didn't see a one in Kauai. I searched from today out to 2016 and all of the inventory that showed was for 2015. I used Worldmark for the search.

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

I followed up on this with a very helpful DRI staff person, who understood exactly what I was saying and was as befuddled about everything as I was. He did some digging around and got in touch with senior DRI staff people who are involved with the DRI and II interface.

It turns out that what Faust was seeing at Poipu is the internal DRI inventory at Point at Poipu, not the II spacebank inventory. IOW, the inventory available to him as a deeded owner. DRI runs the deeded inventory system using their interface with II, so the page that is served up looks like an II page, but it's actually internal DRI inventory. My contact was able to get to a person at a high enough level who could access both the II spacebank and the DRI inventory, who confirmed that there is zero II spacebank inventory at Point at Poipu, whereas there is large availability for almost all of the 2015 in the internal DRI inventory.

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

I followed up on this with a very helpful DRI staff person, who understood exactly what I was saying and was as befuddled about everything as I was. He did some digging around and got in touch with senior DRI staff people who are involved with the DRI and II interface.

It turns out that what Faust was seeing at Poipu is the internal DRI inventory at Point at Poipu, not the II spacebank inventory. IOW, the inventory available to him as a deeded owner. DRI runs the deeded inventory system using their interface with II, so the page that is served up looks like an II page, but it's actually internal DRI inventory. My contact was able to get to a person at a high enough level who could access both the II spacebank and the DRI inventory, who confirmed that there is zero II spacebank inventory at Point at Poipu, whereas there is large availability for almost all of the 2015 in the internal DRI inventory.

Thanks for getting back and letting us know what happened….because I certainly was curious!

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

It seems weird that a non club non points DRI resort owner (unless I am interpreting the ownership incorrectly) would have to go through a portal and pay an exchange fee to interval international (and pay to be a member of II) to access internal DRI inventory that has not been space banked in anyway with II, unless he could have accessed that same inventory by calling DRI directly and booking as his float week.