RCI - DVC Options

[joelp]

We are in the process of purchasing a DVC contract -

Can anyone point me to a web site that lists the RCI Resorts available to DVC members?

Thanks

 

[CarolMN]

Try this one:

RCI Exchanges for DVC Members

 

[RobDoc]

The DVC Resource Center located at the top of each of our DVC Forums has a wealth of historical, statistical and contact information about DVC.

There is a link there to the DVC/World Passport resort listings.

World Passport (RCI) Resort Information


Enjoy!

 

[Deb & Bill]

We are in the process of purchasing a DVC contract -

Can anyone point me to a web site that lists the RCI Resorts available to DVC members?

Thanks

Just a heads up. Don't buy DVC to trade out. Buy a cheaper timeshare to trade and use DVC to stay DVC. It's an expensive timeshare and you don't always get equivalent to DVC with your trades.

Plus RCI could be a thing of the past in a year or two. It was RCI when we joined in 1997 and immediately changed to II only to change back to RCI a few years ago.

Trading out isn't all the the guides make it out to be.

 

[joeyrose]

Just a heads up. Don't buy DVC to trade out. Buy a cheaper timeshare to trade and use DVC to stay DVC. It's an expensive timeshare and you don't always get equivalent to DVC with your trades.

Plus RCI could be a thing of the past in a year or two. It was RCI when we joined in 1997 and immediately changed to II only to change back to RCI a few years ago.



Trading out isn't all the the guides make it out to be.

totally agree. i have found renting my points and taking the cash to go somewhere else, including private beach rentals, to be a much better alternative to rci. i traded once into ii...once was enough.

 

[joelp]

Thanks - I understand about trading out to RCI ...

The contract we are in the process of purchasing has 100 banked points that we have to use before Dec 1 - so a long weekend at WDW (actually - the DW and DD want to go visit Harry Potter ... with flight costs) is our first option ... but trading into RCI is another option (for a less expensive trip) ...

A third option is to rent the points ... but given the short booking window (I'm looking at being a "full-fledged member" around Labor Day), I think we'd probably only get $5-6 per point ... So we might as well try to do something with them, with RCI a possibility ...

My in-laws actually own an RCI timeshare, so other than this time (maybe ...) I don't expect to trade out DVC for RCI ...

Thanks again!!

 

[papamouse1]

Just a heads up. Don't buy DVC to trade out. Buy a cheaper timeshare to trade and use DVC to stay DVC. It's an expensive timeshare and you don't always get equivalent to DVC with your trades.

Plus RCI could be a thing of the past in a year or two. It was RCI when we joined in 1997 and immediately changed to II only to change back to RCI a few years ago.

Trading out isn't all the the guides make it out to be.

Well said

 

[papamouse1]

Thanks - I understand about trading out to RCI ...

The contract we are in the process of purchasing has 100 banked points that we have to use before Dec 1 - so a long weekend at WDW (actually - the DW and DD want to go visit Harry Potter ... with flight costs) is our first option ... but trading into RCI is another option (for a less expensive trip) ...

A third option is to rent the points ... but given the short booking window (I'm looking at being a "full-fledged member" around Labor Day), I think we'd probably only get $5-6 per point ... So we might as well try to do something with them, with RCI a possibility ...

My in-laws actually own an RCI timeshare, so other than this time (maybe ...) I don't expect to trade out DVC for RCI ...

Thanks again!!

The only drawback I might see with trading into RCI with those points is the short time frame you have. Honestly, I have no first-hand knowledge of doing this with DVC points (just with other timeshares I have owned), so maybe with DVC it is handled differently, bu my past experience of trying to trade my timeshare into RCI in a hurry never worked out.