Rci

[junderwood99]

My family owns timeshare in an offsite location. We are looking into using RCI to stay on disney property for our August 2010. I have no experience with this at all. I understand the cost is $89 per year for the RCI 'membership' then $189 to start looking for the transfer. Other than that, I am clueless. Can anyone give me some information I would need? (i.e. what are the chances we will get any DVC for late August early September? Can we have RCI search for any DVC location or are we going to need to specify a property? Can we do MYW and Disney Dining plan?)

Thank you in advance for any help you have.

Jennie

 

[junderwood99]

My family owns timeshare in an offsite location. We are looking into using RCI to stay on disney property for our August 2010. I have no experience with this at all. I understand the cost is $89 per year for the RCI 'membership' then $189 to start looking for the transfer. Other than that, I am clueless. Can anyone give me some information I would need? (i.e. what are the chances we will get any DVC for late August early September? Can we have RCI search for any DVC location or are we going to need to specify a property? Can we do MYW and Disney Dining plan?)

Thank you in advance for any help you have.

Jennie

 

[RobDoc]

My family owns timeshare in an offsite location. We are looking into using RCI to stay on disney property for our August 2010. I have no experience with this at all. I understand the cost is $89 per year for the RCI 'membership' then $189 to start looking for the transfer. Other than that, I am clueless. Can anyone give me some information I would need? (i.e. what are the chances we will get any DVC for late August early September? Can we have RCI search for any DVC location or are we going to need to specify a property? Can we do MYW and Disney Dining plan?)

Thank you in advance for any help you have.

Jennie

You can have RCI do an ongoing search for any DVC property at WDW (that will increase your chances). There are not likely to be listings for that time period until late September or October at the earliest but that should not be a busy time at WDW so there may be good availability especially for Studios and 1BR villas.

The real determining factor will be the trading strength of the resort you have. You may be able to get a feel for that by doing some research at tug2.net which is a great timeshare resource.

Good luck!

 

[Lisa P.]

If your timeshare resort is located in or near the greater Orlando/Disney region, then you will not be able to exchange it into DVC at WDW. Disney has requested this regional block.

I second WDoc's suggestion to learn more at TUG.

Around late May/early June, RCI made some dramatic changes to their timeshare exchange system. At this time, you'd need a prime/peak week at a highly demanded resort to exchange into DVC. Where and when do you own?

 

[Grandbuddy]

I think I've understood that DVC will not allow trades involving any timeshare in Central Florida. If that's correct, your timeshare needs to be waaaay offsite.

 

[rentayenta]

I might try an RCI board. I know the process to trace DVC for RCI but not vice versa. Good luck.

 

[CarolMN]

Merged this thread with the duplicate originally posted on DVC-Planning.

 

[Dean]

My family owns timeshare in an offsite location. We are looking into using RCI to stay on disney property for our August 2010. I have no experience with this at all. I understand the cost is $89 per year for the RCI 'membership' then $189 to start looking for the transfer. Other than that, I am clueless. Can anyone give me some information I would need? (i.e. what are the chances we will get any DVC for late August early September? Can we have RCI search for any DVC location or are we going to need to specify a property? Can we do MYW and Disney Dining plan?)

Thank you in advance for any help you have.

Jennie

As noted, you can't trade an Orlando area timeshare to DVC and that's true even for RCI points. IMO, even if it's not an Orlando option, you need to be very sure about your chances being good prior to joining RCI. If you're not sure you have a great chance of success, it makes joining RCI an expensive risk just for this option alone. What resort, week and unit size are you looking to trade.

 

[junderwood99]

Thank you for all the replies. We have a 2 bed 2 bath villa at Orange Lake in Kissimmee for the 2nd week in February. We're looking for August/September value season for 2010.

Thanks for the help!

 

[Dean]

Thank you for all the replies. We have a 2 bed 2 bath villa at Orange Lake in Kissimmee for the 2nd week in February. We're looking for August/September value season for 2010.

Thanks for the help!

You might look for a getaway and trade your OLCC for something else at a different time. You could also look at renting from a member for the entire time or only part of a week as a supplement or add on to your trip at OLCC. While regional blocks are common in II, they are uncommon in RCI but do happen and DVC has one and does enforce it. Just like OLCC enforces the 1 in 4 rule as a block to all of their properties. You get an exchange to one and can't go back to any of them for 4 years.