Trade out for Mexico or Carribean

[dvcmomdeh]

Has anyone used their points to go to Mexico or the Carribean? Any and all comments appreciated. Not interested in renting our points to make the money.

 

[pouncingpluto]

We haven't gone yet, but the Royal Resorts in Cancun get great reviews, so we did a trade for a week in November 2006. They gave us a two bedroom for the points of a one bedroom (144 mid-season), so we're going to ask friends to come along.

 

[Mickmse2002]

We are interested in this as well.

 

[sk8belle]

I'll be going to the Royal Islander in early Jan. on points and will be happy to post a review when I get back.

 

[JimMIA]

We recently stayed at the Marriott Frenchman's Reef in St. Thomas, which I believe is in the World Passport Collection. It's a beautiful resort, and we had a good time, but we won't go back to St. Thomas.

The reason is the taxi cabs. With just two adults and a 3 year old, we found ourselves having to spend $75 per day just on taxi's.

Everywhere you go, it's $8-10 per person one way, so you end up having to add $30 to the cost of going out to dinner, as just one example. (There's a water shuttle from the resort to downtown Charlotte Amalie, but it's inconvenient and it's $6 per person including children, so it's not much of a savings.) When we went over to St. John, we paid about $45 in cabfare to get to the ferry (the ferry itself was very cheap), and then another $40 on St John -- and that's just for a day at the beach! They really gouge you in St. Thomas.

I don't mind spending money on vacation, but St. Thomas really was not worth it.

 

[Dean]

We recently stayed at the Marriott Frenchman's Reef in St. Thomas, which I believe is in the World Passport Collection. It's a beautiful resort, and we had a good time, but we won't go back to St. Thomas.

The reason is the taxi cabs. With just two adults and a 3 year old, we found ourselves having to spend $75 per day just on taxi's.

Everywhere you go, it's $8-10 per person one way, so you end up having to add $30 to the cost of going out to dinner, as just one example. (There's a water shuttle from the resort to downtown Charlotte Amalie, but it's inconvenient and it's $6 per person including children, so it's not much of a savings.) When we went over to St. John, we paid about $45 in cabfare to get to the ferry (the ferry itself was very cheap), and then another $40 on St John -- and that's just for a day at the beach! They really gouge you in St. Thomas.

I don't mind spending money on vacation, but St. Thomas really was not worth it.

To my knowledge it's not on the DVC list and likely won't be for a couple of years.

I'd say the Royals, several other TOP MX resorts and several top Caribbean resort during Xmas to Easter could be a good value. The 144 points above are a good value but no way to ensure that as I'm sure it was a 1 BR request filled with a 2 BR and no way to reproduce those results. But still for a unit one could likely have rented for $1000 or less. The rest of the time would generally be far better simply renting and using points elsewhere or staying at a nice hotel on a package deal.