I was pitched the RCI program today and did a comparison of availability at HICV vs. RCI to demonstrate my point that RCI availability is terrible compared to internal exchanges.
Details on the complete lack of availability...Galveston is a great example - HICV has dozens of rooms available at a specific resort on a specific day vs. RCI has nothing in any resort for the entire month of July.
RCI is close to useless.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SZEi6v8T4kIjIWn3KCOaAQRgym-Ra-uu
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SZEi6v8T4kIjIWn3KCOaAQRgym-Ra-uu
Someone mentioned using RCI in places that HICV doesn't have resorts (e.g. San Diego and New Orleans), and I pointed out that availability is still likely to be low and that for HICV members, IHG was more useful than RCI with lower fees and no expiration.
ReplyDeleteThen I did the same thing comparing IHG to RCI - RCI had no San Diego availability the same dates and New Orleans had 5 1-night stays available in the 2 week window, but no 2 night stays at 4 months out. IHG had a dozen properties available for the exact 2 nights in both locations. I know a resort is nothing like a hotel in many cases, but given RCI's terrible availability, a resort that happened to be available is probably not any better than a hotel.
drive.google.com - ihg vs. rcix.pdf
Thanks for the info Scott!
ReplyDeleteWhen HIVC did not own my resort, RCI was fabulous. My guess is that RCI has very limited availability for HIVC owners. My resort had so much more value before HIVC bought it out.
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