dprincessmom
dprincessmom
- Joined
- Sep 4, 2011
Looking for recent feedback from anyone that may have done this lately. Bonus points for international usage.
What kind of feedback? We’ve done lots of RCI travel, including international (Australia, Canada, South Africa) but against our other timeshares, not using DVC.
Don’t forget that you can book ‘rental’ weeks through RCI using the DVC Membership. That is, we can all benefit from the RCI affiliation without using in our DVC Points.
Ah, I never particularly relied on RCI’s website as a primary source of information regarding either a resort or its neighborhood/area. I’ve been using the Timeshare User’s Group (TUG) website for about 20 years for its reviews, commentary and candid dialog. Although, that said, TUG had no information or prior experiences with the two exchanges we booked into South Africa. Thus, I had to rely on RCI’s ratings and photos. In both cases, the info was generally accurate, we felt quite safe on the resort property and given great info by resort staff when wandering the areas. One AU location was a bit more “comfortable” (run down) than RCI’s photos implied but it was a super friendly property in a great location and we fell in love with it during our stay.As for feedback, were the rooms and locations as presented on the website? Felt safe in your surroundings?
I thought of another moment, Ephesus, Oct 1999: We entered the site carrying Garmin GPS units. I’d been collecting waypoints along the journey and pulled my Garmin from my pack to mark the site’s entrance. We were quickly surrounded by armed guards who separated me from the group and gestured for my Garmin. After playing with it for a few moments, the first guard broke into a wide grin and started speaking rapidly with his team. They passed my Garmin around and each seemed to enjoy having it in his hands. After a few rounds, they handed it back to me and motioned for me to rejoin the group. Phew! Quite possibly they‘d not yet handled a GPS and were simply having fun. Again, p-h-e-w. Exhale. Breathe.
Sorry ... my brain got stuck on the idea of “unsafe” (or “exciting”) moments. I’ll stop.
FWIW, my exchanges and rentals through RCI, II and GPX have all been favorable.
We missed our banking window last year and had 250 points that we were going to lose so we put them into RCI and subsequently took a trip to Mexico with the kids, staying at an all inclusive resort and also booked a week in Italy near Rome for my husband and I. In Mexico we did have to pay the all inclusive rate, but we were in Play del Carmen, the resort was very nice (a little dated but overall worth what we spent), and in a great location. It was clean with good food and excellent service so those were my top points! We decided (since our kids are now teens) that we will use our DVC points with RCI a bit more and start to see the world rather than spend all of our time at WDW resorts.