How tough is it to trade into Disney?

[perchy]

We are considering purchasing a gold crown RCI high season time share. I've never traded a time share before. What are the odds of trading into disney during regular of off season?

How does it work?

 

[perchy]

Sorry for posting in the wrong place. Thanks for setting me straight.

The property is in the NC mountains during the fall. So it's high season there.

 

[Dean]

There are several components. The short answer if yes, potentially, if you are OK with SSR in a 1 BR. You're liking looking at a TPU in the 23 range for a 2 BR if it's week 41-43, less otherwise. This will likely not be enough for the trade but if you combine deposits, you should be able to get a trade about 2 out of every 3 years. So a fee to combine EOY or so and a trade fee of $209 per trade added to the RCi membership fee (if not included) and the maint fees. Other resorts or larger units are far less likely for several reasons. If trading to DVC is a main goal, there are better options but if it's something you want to use most years, it may be reasonable depending on other specifics.

 

[LoveBWVVBR]

Not tough at all as long as you like SSR 1 bedrooms. That is mainly what they are depositing right now.

 

[a742246]

For the months of January and February exchanging into Disney for a 1 bedroom SSR you would need 36 TPU for 1 week. For a November week I think it was 54 TPU's.

Find out how many TPU's you can get for your timeshare!

 

[ldo]

I highly advise that you post informations about your potential purchase over on TUG2.net. Fall is typically not high season for any resort, even mountains. Is that what your research showed, or what a TS salesperson told you? TUG is a timeshare users group with lots of very smart experienced folks who will give you advice. My Mom has traded into fall in NC for many years with RCI and it is an easy trade for her.
As for trading into DVC, off-season for a 1 BR @ SSR with a range of a few weeks is fairly easy.

 

[Brian Noble]

I second the recommendation to join TUG.

But, my first piece of advice: do not buy a timeshare specifically to trade into DVC. Indeed, do not buy a timeshare with the primary goal of trading into any one particular resort or system. If you want to repeatedly stay in a resort/system, buy there.

On the other hand, if you imagine wanting to use the timeshare you are buying at least some of the time, and might want to trade into a large variety of destinations with no particular expectations, then exchanging can work nicely.

Finally, ldo's observation is spot-on: Fall in the NC mountains is not likely to be a great trader.

 

[chalee94]

Sorry for posting in the wrong place. Thanks for setting me straight.

The property is in the NC mountains during the fall. So it's high season there.

I own a summer week in the NC mountains (lake lure area). Resale for $1 (or less) can be a great deal.

it's a great trader in interval international. pretty mediocre from what I've heard in RCI.

I have traded 1BRs there for Marriott 2BRs in Newport Beach, CA; Las Vegas; Hilton Head, SC and St Kitts in the Caribbean. Also, several different Marriotts and Sheraton Vistana Resort near WDW.

But I wouldn't bother trying to trade it for DVC. It has better value elsewhere.

 

[LoveBWVVBR]

I own a summer week in the NC mountains (lake lure area). Resale for $1 (or less) can be a great deal.

it's a great trader in interval international. pretty mediocre from what I've heard in RCI.

I have traded 1BRs there for Marriott 2BRs in Newport Beach, CA; Las Vegas; Hilton Head, SC and St Kitts in the Caribbean. Also, several different Marriotts and Sheraton Vistana Resort near WDW.

But I wouldn't bother trying to trade it for DVC. It has better value elsewhere.

We also own at that same Lake Lure resort, and it is our best trader. We get an AC week on that week every year, and with using the XYZ we get 3 weeks out of it, usually at Marriott Lakeshore Reserve in 2 or 3 bedroom units. I still think that that resort is an amazing trader. I'd never give it to RCI though because of what I can get for it in Interval.

 

[perchy]

Nice. Thank you both.

 

[JimMIA]

We are considering purchasing a gold crown RCI high season time share. I've never traded a time share before. What are the odds of trading into disney during regular of off season?

How does it work?

You will get much better answers if you post which specific timeshare (system & resort) you are thinking about purchasing. It's impossible to answer most of your questions accurately without knowing what you might own.

Like several others, I would certainly not buy ANY timeshare based on how it might, or might not, exchange with ANYthing right now.

The exchange environment is constantly changing -- not only TPU values, but even which exchange companies a particular system (or individual resort) uses to exchange. For example, DVC was with RCI for several years, then with II for several years, and now back with RCI for several years.

The important thing to remember about exchanging is that whatever is true today can -- and probably WILL -- change tomorrow, next week, next year.

So, if you're going to buy a timeshare (and I would think long and hard on that question, independent of any consideration of any system), buy it for what you can do within that company's system -- NOT exchanges.