How Do You Become an RCI Points Member?

How to become an RCI Points Member:

If you are not a timeshare owner or if your current resort is not affiliated with RCI Points, we can assist you with your first step, which is to purchase timeshare with an RCI Points-affiliated resort in order to become an RCI Points Member.

What is the difference between RCI Points® and other Timeshare Points systems?

This question is best answered in three parts.

1. RCI Points is the first and only truly global Timeshare Points System. With RCI Points you can use your Points and enjoy the flexibility, control, performance and options in one fashion or another at all 3700 + RCI affiliated resorts worldwide and RCI Points Partners.

2. With most other resort developers points systems, the flexibility, control and options you have are only as broad and far reaching as the number of sister properties in that developer’s family of resorts. Generally, if a member of one of these points systems wants to go to a resort outside its own family of properties, they must “convert” their points to a week, deposit that week with RCI and use it as a week when they exchange it. That’s traditional timeshare, which defeats the purpose of owning a points system in the first place.

3. RCI Points are very simple to use. Your points are automatically deposited into your points account once your annual maintenance fee is paid to your home resort for that year. After that anything and everything you would like to do with your points can be facilitated by calling RCI Points or manage your RCI Points account on line. Its very simple and user friendly.

RCI Points - Glossary Terms D and E

D
Daily/Split
Reservation means a Reservation of Vacation Time that is less than or greater than seven (7) nights.

Deeded Agreements
Agreement to purchase timeshare, which is a lifetime ownership represented by a deed.

Deposit
means the deposit or assignment into the Network Depository by a Member, pursuant to a Participation Agreement, of Vacation Time for use and Reservation by Members.

Disclosure Guide
An RCI publication containing information regarding an exchange program.

E
Endless Vacation® Magazine
RCI's official member magazine is published bimonthly. Get travel ideas and information in the pages of Endless Vacation. RCI benefits are obtained only via a subscription to the Endless Vacation magazine. Use of the term "membership" is intended to denote subscription to the Endless Vacation magazine.

Exchange Confirmation
RCI provides you with a written document that confirms your RCI Weeks vacation, which explains in detail the resort accommodations reserved for you.

Exchange Grid
Points members can use their Points to go to a Weeks resort. The Point value needed will depend on the RCI Weeks exchange grid. The number of points needed to make an RCI Weeks reservation will be based on the season, unit size and resort recognition status of the resort that is being confirmed as well as the region in which the resort is located. Once you access your Points account online and go to the area to search for a Weeks reservation, the Value Grid or Exchange Grid will be a listed option above the areas in which you indicate your search parameters.

External Exchange
means the exchange of Vacation Time by a Member through the External Exchange Program, RCI Weeks.

See our Timeshare Points Wholesalers site map for more RCI Points information

RCI Points - Glossary of terms beginning with B and C

B

Biennial ownership
Use of a fixed week every other year. Owners are often referred to as either "odd" or "even" year owners.

Borrowing Points
The RCI Points program gives you the ability to borrow Points from the subsequent Use Year into the current Use Year.

C

Check-in Date
The day/date on which your confirmed vacation begins.

Club Consumers
join to obtain all aspects of their vacation needs, including travel as well as lodging for a finite term. It may or may not be tied to real estate ownership, provides the use of accommodations in multiple locations and may offer other benefits.

Comment Card
RCI send this card to every RCI Points Member after a vacation. It's your chance to tell about your experience at your Host Resort.

Confirmation
RCI provides you with a written document that confirms your RCI vacation, which explains in detail the resort accommodations reserved for you.

Confirmed Exchange
This is the vacation time and unit you agree to accept from RCI Weeks in exchange for Points from your membership account.

Confirmed Reservation
This is the vacation time and unit you agree to accept from RCI Points in exchange for the Points from your membership account.

RCI Points Glossary - Letter A

Beginning today, we will be explaining the various terms you will need to know in order to understand RCI Points. We will do one letter of the alphabet at a time because it is a large undertaking.

RCI Points - Glossary Letter A

Affiliated Resort means a Home Resort or Home Group, which has a current Network Affiliation Agreement with the Network Administrator. RCI calls the RCI Points program the "Network" and it labels itself as the "Network Administrator". In the RCI Points account setup application, you will see these terms used throughout.

Affiliation Agreement means the agreement between the Network Administrator and a timeshare resort or club pursuant to which that resort or club becomes an Affiliated Resort. The Affiliation agreement is the agreement signed by the resort, agreeing to the terms required by RCI for a resort to become an RCI Points affiliated resort.

Annual Dues This is the annual fee charged for participation in RCI Points. The current rate per year is $99 USD and $132 CD. A frequest question by those who already have an RCI Weeks account, is whether 2 accounts are required by RCI - a Weeks account and a Points account. The answer is you only need pay for the points account because RCI includes the weeks account at no extra charge.

Auto-Saving Points The RCI Points program will automatically save eligible Points remaining on your account at the end of the Use Year into the subsequent Use Year.

Your RCI Points Reservation Window

Depending on the type of reservation you want to make, there's a window of opportunity when you can request the reservation without competition from other RCI members. Naturally, you want to reserve when your vacation type has highest priority. You can still make reservations right up until your travel plans.

Use the following timetable to guide you to the best time to book:

HOME WEEK RESERVATION - Earliest opportunity to book - 13 months
If you own fixed time and want to reserve the specific unit and week you own.
Must be a seven night stay

HOME RESORT RESERVATION - Earliest opportunity to book - 12 months
If you own fixed or floating time and want to reserve a unit at your home
resort other than the specified unit you own.
Must be a seven night stay.

HOME GROUP RESERVATION - Earliest opportunity to book - 11 months
If you want to reserve a unit at a resort that is part of a larger group of
properties in your home group of resorts.
Any resort within your home group.
Any size unit, any length of stay

STANDARD RESERVATION - Earliest Opportunity to book - 10 months
If you want to book at any RCI Points resort, including your home resort.
Any resort, any size unit, any length of stay.