How Do You Find The Seasons Of Each Resort On II?

[icydog]

I'm LOOKING FOR THE PASSPORT COLLECTION. I can't find it on the DVC member site. We used to be able to look at resorts that are available to us through II. I want to see which resorts they are and I also want to know the point amount for trading into one of these resorts. How do find out the seasons in each II resort?

 

[BillPA]

II has a link for DVC. I hope it is okay to post this here.

http://disney.intervalworld.com/iw/cs?a=5


If this link doesn 't stay, you can go to the world passport collection area on the members site, scroll down to VIEW, this is a link to II

 

[icydog]

II has a link for DVC. I hope it is okay to post this here.

http://disney.intervalworld.com/iw/cs?a=5


If this link doesn 't stay, you can go to the world passport collection area on the members site, scroll down to VIEW, this is a link to II

Thank you. I did both and they both work. Now how do you know what season is which at each resort? I want to go to the Marriott in Aruba and I am not sure what seasons it has and when. Is there anyway to determine this info.. I probably want to go in May. I also have the same question about the Four Season Resorts in San Diego and Arizona. I was told the Four Seasons only has two seasons, Gold and Platnum.

 

[rocketriter]

Different resorts and chains have different seasons. As far as I know they're not posted anywhere. Talk to MS about this.

 

[Dean]

Thank you. I did both and they both work. Now how do you know what season is which at each resort? I want to go to the Marriott in Aruba and I am not sure what seasons it has and when. Is there anyway to determine this info.. I probably want to go in May. I also have the same question about the Four Season Resorts in San Diego and Arizona. I was told the Four Seasons only has two seasons, Gold and Platnum.

It is resort by resort so you'll have to call to get the specifics. As a generalization, assume any time that's red time will be Mid or High and any time that's peak and red will be high. But as another poster proved this week, many people aren't really aware of what's peak and what's not. For Four Seasons I suspect summer will be high and at least most of the rest will be mid season. For Aruba, I suspect it's week 51-18 will be High for the Marriott and the rest mid. It's possible some of the truly off season for Aruba is low like Sept and Oct. Remember that it's actually the destination resort that determines the season, not DVC.

Unless you don't have enough points or are truly flexible on your travel and just trying to pick the lower times, I doubt it truly will make much difference for most members most of the time. The difference from low to high is not that much. There's also the Travel Index on II's resort directory that may help you further. Otherwise, just email or call DVC and ask for specific resorts.

 

[icydog]

It is resort by resort so you'll have to call to get the specifics. As a generalization, assume any time that's red time will be Mid or High and any time that's peak and red will be high. But as another poster proved this week, many people aren't really aware of what's peak and what's not. For Four Seasons I suspect summer will be high and at least most of the rest will be mid season. For Aruba, I suspect it's week 51-18 will be High for the Marriott and the rest mid. It's possible some of the truly off season for Aruba is low like Sept and Oct. Remember that it's actually the destination resort that determines the season, not DVC.

Unless you don't have enough points or are truly flexible on your travel and just trying to pick the lower times, I doubt it truly will make much difference for most members most of the time. The difference from low to high is not that much. There's also the Travel Index on II's resort directory that may help you further. Otherwise, just email or call DVC and ask for specific resorts.

My husband and I are retired so travelling when the points are cheap, the weather is nice and the crowds are low seems to make the most sense. "It's all because we can"

 

[Caskbill]

For what it's worth, I looked in my II members resort directory for all 4 of the resorts you mentioned, and, as expected, each of them is red season the entire year (52 weeks). Of course that still doesn't tell you when it's peak season or not. Anyway, just FYO.

 

[Dean]

My husband and I are retired so travelling when the points are cheap, the weather is nice and the crowds are low seems to make the most sense. "It's all because we can"

That's fine but do you really want to go to HH in Jan or Colorado in Oct or even the Arizona or CA Desert in August. Truly off times tend to breed low occupancy, less activities and closed stores and restaurants. There's a difference in going a good time but off season and going when no one else wants to go. If you wants to go to truly off season areas and times, doing so using DVC is simple financial suicide. Buy a cheap trader like South Africa or one of the cheap points systems like Bluegreen or Fairfield or one that's very flexible to use exchanging like Worldmark. In many cases you can get rentals through II or RCI for less than most timeshare maint fees so buying just to get access to the system is often times more than worth it.

As a matter of fact, if I were retired and truly flexible, I wouldn't own DVC. I'd trade in during May, Sept, Oct and January. Cutting my costs to a fraction of owning.

 

[Dean]

Here are the resorts I have specific info on, it jives with my understanding of the basic principles involved. The only one that surprised me was that GO is high season as long as it is.

Marriott’s Ocean Club Aruba **High = 1-16, 51-52. Mid = 17-50**

Royal Sands, Cancun **High = 1-16, 25-34, 51-52. Mid = 17-24, 35-48. Low = 49-50**

Marriott’s Grande Ocean, HH HH **High = 15-42, 51-52. Mid = 7-14. Low = 1-6, 43-50**

Marriott Manor Club and Sequel, Williamsburg **High = 22-34. Mid = 7-21, 35-52. Low = 1-6**

Paradise Village, Nuevo Vallarta **High = 1-16, 51-52. Mid = 43-48. Low
= 17-42, 49-50**

Royal Reef, Cayman’s **High = 1-16, 26-32, 51-52. Mid = 17-25, 33-35,
44-48. Low = 36-43, 49-50**

Westin, St. John’s. **High = 1-52 Weeks/seasons subject to change.**