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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

RCI Points: Timeshare RCI Points Q and A Series

Today we start a new series about questions many have about RCI Points.

RCI Points Question 1. What are RCI points?

Answer: RCI Points is a type of timeshare ownership in an RCI affiliated resort, where RCI has assigned a point value for all RCI resorts, assigning a certain number of points for a vacation stay of one night or more, for any size unit and any time of the year.

The points can be exchanged through RCI for shorter or longer vacations in any unit size desired, as well as for travel-related products, including airfare, cruises, car rental, and hotel reservations.

If you want to stay somewhere there is no timeshare, you can use your points for hotels. Or, maybe you just want to use your points for cruises or airline tickets, or car rentals, or any combination thereof. The flexibility is really pretty exciting.

The points can be spent just like dollars and every year you get your new annual allotment of points to spend.

Let's say you own 36,000 points a year If you use your points on RCI Instant exchange (45 days of less in advance of travel date), it only takes 9,000 points to stay a full week in a two or three bedroom condo with full kitchen.

If you used all of your points on instant exchange, you could take FOUR WEEKS of vacation accommodations. If your maintenance fee is $400 for the year that means your cost for the four weeks vacation is $100 per week. ($400 divided by 4).

Now you know why RCI Points are so popular.

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

RCI Points: The RCI Points Series Part Five

RCI owns no resorts, it is merely an exchange company, and an excellent one at that, but I seem to have better luck in exchanging, using my RCI Points.

But for certain locations where someone wants absolute 100% assurance of staying in a particular resort at a particular time, that person can only achieve that 100% guarantee by owning in that resort during the week(s) desired.

On the other hand, there is a very sizable number of timeshare owners who desire to go somewhere different each year, for one of two day stays, in various size units, and for varying times of the year. For those people, RCI Points is an excellent choice.

Probably the least known thing about RCI Points is that traditional timeshare "weeks" owners may have the opportunity to use what they already own, not as weeks, but as RCI Points, by using the RCI Points For Deposit program. I use this program myself to be able to use RCI Points with my ownerships in non-points resorts.

If you would like to be emailed information about how you might be able to use your non-points ownership as RCI Points, just send me an email, and I will explain how I go about it myself.

In the next series, we'll answer some common questions that have come up in the past.