Get The Best Out Of Your RCI Timeshare Week
May 7, 2009 by admin ·
Owners Perspective Magazine - Are you new to the world of timeshare or someone who’s enjoyed RCI exchange holidays for many years? Perhaps you’re considering taking the plunge?
We at RCI want to ensure you get the best possible holiday you can. So we’re taking this opportunity to make sure you get great value from your week’s timeshare ownership by helping you to better understand how RCI’s weeks exchange system works.
RCI is the leading holiday exchange provider, having introduced exchange holidays over 30 years ago. Many owners are automatically enrolled into RCI membership when they first buy their timeshare. Others enrol independently, attracted by the benefits of being able to take exchange holidays in a selection of RCI’s 4,000 affiliated resorts, spread across more than 100 countries. The majority of members renew their membership for many years, enjoying not only the exciting and varied destinations RCI has to offer, but also the many additional holiday and travel services available exclusively to RCI members.
Put simply, the exchange system allows a timeshare owner to deposit their own week or weeks into their exchange provider’s pool of deposited weeks. They then submit an exchange request for a selected resort somewhere else. If the requested accommodation is available for the week required they will be able to exchange it with another member’s week from the pool of deposits and so enjoy a holiday at a different location and different time of year.
Choice and availability of accommodation for exchanging members is dependent on having as many weeks as possible in the exchange pool, as early in the year as possible, to ensure weeks are there when members begin to plan their holidays. RCI recommends depositing your week or weeks as early as you can – even if you’re not sure where you might want to holiday later in the year.
Early depositing means you increase the exchange options available to you and your fellow members.
RCI allows its members to deposit their weeks any time between 2 years and 2 weeks before the start date of the member’s own deposited week. They can then request an exchange between 2 years and 46 days before the start of travel.
Of course the system is a little bit more complicated than that, as each deposited week has something called trading power, which is an indication of the level of demand for a particular time of year or a particular resort. So, for example, a peak season school holiday week (an RCI red week) would have more trading power than an off-peak season week (an RCI blue or white week).
Depositing your week early increases the trading power of your week, and other factors such as the resort review feedback and size of property all influence the amount of trading power a deposited week has. Once a week is deposited and has been allocated trading power, an owner can see exactly what they can exchange into.
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