Skyauction: RSG vs Regular auction

[kathyclownfish]

Hi, I'm a skyauction newbie. Can anyone answer a couple of questions? What is the difference between the Ready, Set, Go auction and the regular skyauction? And when people are bidding $50 or so.....this is per night...right? I realize that there would be an additional $129 for the total week.

Has anyone seen the Sherton Vistana Villas go for less than $250 for the entire week?

Does the Sherton Vistana Villas ever go up for auction per night? We need a condo for 5 nights and then are staying at Royal Pacific Resort in Universal.

Thanks for your replies!!
Kathy

 

[lawgs]

kathyclownfish

RSG auctions usually go for less and allow you flexibility in choosing the time of your vacation, that being said, the inventory they have do not include "better" resorts ( subjective here ) such as Orange Lake or Sheraton Vistana, those resorts usually are being done on a "single resort" basis and the auction go for more $$$

You would be lucky to get Vistana resort for 250$ for the week....you might, just might get if for a good price on a "last minute" type auction which they sometimes have for Vistana, but you would have to be very flexible/last minute planning in that instance

Even if you did not need the resort for the entire week, you could win an auction for a week and just use part of the week ( in your case 5 days )

you would just have to tell the staff you have to leave early ....it is no loss to them ...you have paid for 7 nights.....

now that being said, the bid per night auctions are not as cost effective since you pay in addition to your bid a fee of 32$ a night plus your processing fee so you actually start out your bid at 47$ for one night, 75 for two nights, 107$ for three nights etc......then you have to add on the "bid" to each night ....so if it went for 30$ lets say...a five night stay would be 160$ + 15$ + 150$ = 325$

if you want to find out what is available per night in Florida .....go to skyauction.com

choose USA & Canada

then choose along the right side Florida

this will bring up all the "florda related" auctions...right now they have some bids per night at hotels and Westgate Resorts ( which is currently at 43$ a night plus do not forget the 32$ per night added on and the one time processing fee )

there are currently 13 pages of auctions .....



but, there are also some nice resorts offered through RSG

go to

http://www2.findweeks.com/?cobrand=90946


you can use that url to check out potential resorts on the RSG auction for your time period.....

RSG auctions usually go on the average of 50$ + 195$ (service fee/tax) + 15$ ( processing fee ) = 260$

then come back here and see what people say about the resort you think you would like to stay in....

 

[kathyclownfish]

Lawgs,
WOW, thanks for the great information!! I'm going to try skyauction closer to our vacation date.
Kathy

 

[lawgs]

kathyclownfish

here is an auction ( bid per night ) you might want to check out...


http://www.skyauction.com/action/offer?OFFER_ID=886434

 

[kathyclownfish]

Thanks Lawgs, you are full of great information! I'm starting to get this skyauction thing. One more question.....when I checked this morning for the available resorts in Orlando, I did not see any "one night" offers listed. Where on the site did you find this?


Kathy

 

[spiceycat]

with the timeshares you are charged $195 +$15 for the entire week - not a nightly charge - the bid is for the entire week

 

[lawgs]

spiceycat

the info on that url posted for Kathy is for a bid per night auction at silver lake, in her original post she was asking about 5 night stay

kathy

all you have to do on skyauction is do a "search"

then i would put in ...

"bid per night" as the key word

the keyword i used to find that url was "silver lake", you could alsoe use "westgate" in the search ( they seem to have bid per night too

if you want to isolate florida you can do that by going to

USA & Canada

on the home page .....when it comes up......

just click on "florida" in the right sidebar

that should bring up all the auctions for floirda