Elizabeth,

Just to clarify, our experiences with RCI were long before the 'points' program became available and were strictly 'weeks' exchanges.

The first attempt was made, giving them our two bedroom red time and giving them a four month range we wished to travel in from January through April (excluding the very high New Years, Presidents and Easter weeks which we really didn't want....) and they could only come up with the destinations I originally mentioned. In year two of our on-going search they did finally find a week we could agree upon.

The second attempt at exchanging our week ended up in us taking a lesser unit back at the Towers than we had given them in the first place and it took them almost two years to find this and we took it only because we were tired of playing their game. Totally unsuccessful experiences, both.

Perhaps with the advent of the more widely available internet options and the addition of the points program things improved but we were perfectly content to do our SXM weeks (having added a few more as we went along) and booking our other travel experiences completely independent if RCI.

I'm glad it has worked for you but lately I've been reading that many 'points' owners are becoming dissatisfied but I really haven't paid all that much attention as to their reasons since it hasn't been anything we were directly involved in.

Will you be there in April this year or traveling elsewhere? <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />