WorldMark Owners :: View topic - New resorts have MUCH higher credit allocation

ModSquad · Moderator

The news is in and it's not good. Gone are the days of being able to get a 2-bdrm unit in red season for 10,000 credits. While we got used to the higher credits in Hawai'i, we're now seeing higher credit allocation at the new resorts, urban or more rural.

The chart below shows credits for red season. The new resorts are in red.

Unit Size	Oceanside	Indio	Mission Valley	Angel’s Camp	West Yellowstone	Anaheim
Studio	7,000	7,000	n/a	n/a	10,000	11,000
1-bdrm	8,000	9,000	12,500	8,000	11,000	14,000
2-bdrm	10,000	11,000	15,000	10,000	13,500	16,500
3-bdrm	12,000	13,000	n/a	12,000	15,500	20,000
3-bdrm penthouse	18,000	18,000	n/a	18,000	n/a	n/a
3 or 4-bdrm presidential....	n/a	30,000...	n/a	n/a	30,000	35,000/40,000

Note: Sizes listed below are for unit comparison

4 bedrooms

3 bedrooms

Edited 09/09/2009 to add Anaheim resort.

lowellploss

There has been another aspect to the dilution of our Worldmark credits that most people seem to overlook. In recent years the new resorts have been constructed with 2 bedroom or greater units. This means that a couple, only needing a studio or 1 bedroom, must cash in more credits or bonus points. When we originally purchased our shares in 1993 we could stay at any resort in the system. Now we are limited to the older resorts.

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bee

Higher credit values also increases the management fees each unit generates.

Got to get around that silly 5% max somehow!

lconnors

And of course, another thing that dilutes the credits is the introduction of resorts that are not booked using credits. The resort in Grand Lake, OK is only booked at 15% using credits! That's abysmal! Where do the other 85% of the credits get used? Hmmmm, maybe Hawai'i, Depoe Bay, Oceanside Harbor?

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Marci

kapish

worldmark fan

Wow, nice big jump. Rolling Eyes

BonustimeJunki

Use the 'Exchange" booking window 60 day out and any resort is 4,000 credits per week.

jbcoug

vhansen

Even if there was no exchange fee the thought of planning all of my vacations with such short notice is a stupid idea. Most people work and therefore can not get the time off they need unless they plan for the year ahead. So say my husband asks for a week in June off and we wait for the exchange period than we can't get a location that is even with in our area, we would be staying home that year from a vacation. Why do they have to make the resorts use so many credits that the average family can't even go anywhere worth gong to. Please think of the "unimportant owners" when planning the amount of credits needed. [-X

lconnors

hotweathertraveler

I have been an owner since 1998...alot has changed...I use to get bonas time at the coast anytime I needed. now I have to book months out. I wish they wouldnt tell people to book times they want to sell or hold just to get other ways to use less points??? I liked it better when you didnt have to play games!

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