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Re: WALK AWAY FROM TIMESHARE (by Mary D.):
pattig31 wrote:====== I gather Vacation Village is your resort? By "daily management" do you mean the front desk or what?Lets take this one step at a time...first banking.....call daily management and ask them if it is true that rci owners of vacation village have to bank through RCI or them...maybe you are a retired person...but you are obviously on somebody's payroll.
Some resorts do indeed have some lists of weeks you can exchange into directly through them. Stranger yet, .......well, I made an exchange through RCI but it never showed up on my History on the RCI site, which I found disconcerting. When I called to ask why, I was told that the week I got in Spain was supplied directly by Mayan Palace and didn't show up on the RCI site because it was not from their exchange pool. I was exchanging an existing Mayan Palace deposit which I'd made nearly 2 years ago into RCI and did pay the RCI exchange fee. Wierd. It is true that I had not seen the week I took listed on the RCI site but it was offered by the RCI VC when I decided to reserve by phone.
The first time we went to Mayan Palace, I believe we did it with a semi-internal exchange from Grandvista to MP and paid GV a lower-than-RCI fee. I'd forgotten that! You really can at least ASK your resort whether they have anything available like this. I know PIC weeks accepted by Fairfield/Wyndham go directly into RCI but some other chains may keep them to exchange on their own. I don't know what Bluegreen does with AIM weeks. (As we used to say re insurance claims: Go ahead and ask. The worst they can say is "No"!) MD