Disney Vacation Club drops II

Disney Vacation Club has dropped Interval International as an exchange partner and is now exclusively with RCI.

From the Examiner.com:

One of the best benefits of being a Disney Vacation Club Member is the ability to exchange your DVC points for a non-Disney vacation.

The company affiliated with the DVC was Interval International, but the Disney Company made an exchange themselves. Resort Condominiums International (RCI) is the newest DVC affiliation Members can use to exchange their vacation points for a non-Disney vacation.RCI has almost 5,000 resorts around the world, making it the largest timeshare vacation exchange program available. There are also 87 resorts are in the Orlando area, with 16 of them on Walt Disney World property.

One of the companies to benefit from this move is Wyndham, the owner of RCI. The Orlando Sentinel stated that RCI added approximately 135,000 member families in an effort to lure DVC business from Interval International.

This exchange from Interval International to RCI has DVC Members wondering if the transition from one to another will be smooth. Stephen Holmes, Wyndham chairman and CEO, told the Orlando Sentinel the company is spending the money to make sure DVC is fully integrated into the RCI systems.

For more information about the Disney Vacation Club visit www.disneyvacationclub.com.

For more information about RCI visit www.rci.com/RCI.

marty8084 wrote:

Disney Vacation Club has dropped Interval International as an exchange partner and is now exclusively with RCI.

This is not new news. DVC switched to RCI a long time ago. The bad news is that many people who used to be able to trade into DVC with II now have a problem with RCI since some of their RCI units don't have the trading power. The good news is that people in RCI Points have a better chance of getting into DVC. However RCI has a regional block on Orlando owners trading into DVC. If you own an RCI POints resort based in FL, then you cannot use your points to get a DVC unit. RCI also offers DVC units for rent,though prices for a week are extremely high.

mike1536 wrote:

marty8084 wrote:

Disney Vacation Club has dropped Interval International as an exchange partner and is now exclusively with RCI.

This is not new news. DVC switched to RCI a long time ago. The bad news is that many people who used to be able to trade into DVC with II now have a problem with RCI since some of their RCI units don't have the trading power. The good news is that people in RCI Points have a better chance of getting into DVC. However RCI has a regional block on Orlando owners trading into DVC. If you own an RCI POints resort based in FL, then you cannot use your points to get a DVC unit. RCI also offers DVC units for rent,though prices for a week are extremely high.

This is not 100% accurate the block on local ownership is within a 30 mile radius of the DVC resort not all of Florida so if you own in Fort Lauderdale you can still trade into DVC in Orlando, also the block is a DVC rule not RCI's, RCI simply abides by it. The change over to RCI happened last January