RCI, what happened??

[Brian Noble]

$95 is a bit lower than average. A "regular" RCI Points owner would be charged $99 for a 4-night Points transaction.

The housekeeping fee is relatively common at older RCI Points resorts, because most such resorts are set up on a weekly basis---they are cleaned once a week. If you stay only part of a week, the unit has to be cleaned twice, but the owner only "paid for" one clean in their maintenance fees, because they own "one week". So, you pay for 1/2 the cost of the extra clean, and the person who stays the remainder of the week pays for the other 1/2. If you stay the full week, there are no housekeeping charges. That's really counter-intuitive until you think about it from an "extra cleaning" point of view.

Newer resorts that were sold only as Points resorts (vs. Weeks) tend not to have these extra cleaning fees, as far as I know, though I'm sure there are a few Points-only resorts that do, and a few Weeks resorts that don't.

 

[Dean]

The RCI points exchange costs ranges from $39 for one night to $139 for 7 nights. Each resort has the option of charging a housekeeping fee for less than a week, I'm not aware of any that do not but there may be a few. Some approach it to pay for their extra costs and some use it as a cash cow. Unfortunately my experience is different than Brian's in that if one stays 4 nights and another 3, both pay a FULL cleaning in most cases and the resort pockets the extra. Brian's representation is the way it should be. To make things even worse, many of those resorts are actually mini points systems and often DON'T charge their members extra when they only stay a few days but do exchangers.

All tolled, it was still pretty cheap for a 1 BR unit in a very nice resort for a 4 night stay and we would go there again but get a studio to save points.

There is nothing cheap about the DVC points involved. You may or may not get a value but using the word cheap with DVC points just doesn't fit in, IMO.