RCI Use Year

[letnes]

I'm trying to figure out when the DVC points I had to transfer to RCI because of the closures last year will expire. Does Use Year correspond to the DVC Use year. I have points listed under 2021 User Year, but 0 points for 2022 and 2023. Does that mean that I will need to pay $100 to extend the points into 2022 or are they using DVC use year and I have until my DVC use year?

 

[erionm]

RCI is calendar year.

 

[bwvBound]

Hmmm, that is a good question!

FWIW, I've had an RCI Weeks account for 20+ years from other, non-DVC timeshare. When I deposit a week into the system it has a maximum of three years "shelf life" within the system. Those three years are defined as:

• 1 year before the check-in date of the week deposited
• 2 years beyond the week deposited rounded to the end of that month. (I deposit a "3rd week of August" and it is valid until 8/31 two years later.)
• I may, and have, paid to extend the deposit for years beyond the expiration that occurs 8/31 on the 2nd year after the specific travel dates of the deposited week.

@erionm, given that my deposit expires 8/31, I do not believe that RCI is, in general, based on calendar year. Rather, I think historically for RCI Weeks, that the system calendar revolves around the month of the travel week deposited.

That said, RCI Points, which is also available to DVC members, might use 12/31 for DVC deposits to make things easier/uniform for DVC specifically? Or is this something they do for other points mini-systems that use RCI Points, also? Examples of my word 'points mini-systems' would include: Hilton Grand Vacation Club (HGVC), Club Wyndham, Worldmark TravelShare, etc.

@letnes, I'd expect your DVC deposit should have a minimum of 2 years from the DVC UY you deposited. Given that not many have gone down this path until Covid hit ... you might want to phone DVC's Member Services to determine the exact expiration of your week unless you can fish that data from the RCI website portal through DVC? I bet it is there somewhere ...

 

[letnes]

I think i will call DVC Member Services and see what they say.

Thanks.

 

[CarolynFH]

I think i will call DVC Member Services and see what they say.

Thanks.

Please report back what you find out! I'm sure you're not the only member wondering about that!

 

[Brian Noble]

I'd expect your DVC deposit should have a minimum of 2 years from the DVC UY you deposited.

If it works like the other mini-systems do, it will be the at least the end of the month, two years after you deposited your points. It could be longer, but it won't be shorter. It may depend on what "year" you were assigned in your RCI account. So, I suspect if you deposited those points in 2021, you have until the end of your "year" in 2023 to use them.

For example, in my Wyndham RCI account, my "year" is Jan 1-Dec 31. So, when I deposit points, they expire at the end of the first December at least two years later. I deposited some points in March of 2020 (when it was clear I wasn't going to use the rest of my 2020 points due to \waves-at-all-of-this), and those expire Dec 31st 2022. I deposited some more just last month, and those expire Dec 31st, 2023.

Call whatever number is listed on your RCI portal. That might or might not be DVC MS.

 

[letnes]

I called DVC Member Services yesterday. Brian is right.

Points transferred to RCI from DVC expire 2 years after the transfer on December 31. RCI uses a calendar year, so points expire December 31. The agent I spoke with said since I transferred my points in August 2020 they will expire on December 31, 2022. So depending on when you made the transfer you get a few months extra.

 

[zapple]

And is it correct that you can pay $100 to extend them a year beyond that?

 

[letnes]

Yes. For $100.00 you can extend for a third year.

 

[LPnerd]

great info, thanks!

 

[redlady18]

I know you started this thread over a year ago, but I was trying to figure out what it means to "use" the points? I banked mine into RCI 12/18/2020 so they are now expiring at the end of the month. Do I need to book and travel before 12/31/22 or do I just need to book by 12/31/22 and I can still travel in April 2023? Or maybe I pay $100 and can extend them into 2023 and book and travel in April like I was planning. Thanks for any info!