If you are reading this, you are probably a Wyndham owner who likes to save their points for special vacations or you have found that you cannot take the vacations you would prefer every year and you want to maximize your points usage so that the points will not be wasted.
The Points Credit Pool is a feature that you may benefit from if you know well in advance that you are not going to be able to use your points for the upcoming Use Year. Any member who has not purchased ½ million or more points from the developer, cannot place points into the Points Credit Pool after the start date of their Use Year. VIP Gold members can use the feature up to six months after their Use Year start date. VIP Platinum members can use the feature up to nine months after their Use Year start date. Once in the “pool” the credits can be used for a Standard or Express internal reservation. Pooled credits cannot be used as a deposit with your assigned exchange company and they cannot be converted to Club WyndhamSM Plus Assessment dollars.
Upon placement of all or part of your next Use Year points into the Points Credit Pool the credits show up in your account as Pool Credits that can be used up to three years from the date they were placed in the pool for a Standard or Express internal reservation. There is a fee of $39 to use the Points Credit Pool feature. For each 1,000 points placed in the pool one Housekeeping Credit will also be deposited.
Note: If you typically take yearly vacations and use your Wyndham points throughout the year the Points Credit Pool is usually not a feature you would consider using; but there is a benefit that can be derived if you are an owner of points and simply do not have enough points to get you that special vacation that you want in some future year.
Tip: Some Wyndham point owners periodically realize that they need additional points in the current Use Year to get the Vacation that they want. In such a situation the member can deposit all or part of their next Use Year point allocation into the Points Credit Pool to get access to additional points so that the desired reservation can be made. After moving all or part of the next Use Year’s points to the Points Credit Pool the member can immediately redeem pooled credits from the pool to use in the current year. The following scenario is detailed; but it is provided to help you understand how the Points Credit Pool might be a worthwhile benefit IF you intend to redeem the “pool credits” immediately.
Let’s say that it is June 1, 2010 and you own 259,000 points at Wyndham Bonnet Creek, Lake Buena Vista, FL with a Jan 1 - Dec 31 Use Year. Regardless of how you have used or may eventually use your 2010 allotment of points, you can see those points and also see your 2011 and 2012 allotment at the Wyndham website. For this discussion the 2010 points do not matter.
Illustration
# 1 - Display of Points &
Housekeeping Credits on June 1, 2010
CLUB
WYNDHAM®
Plus Point Status |
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2010 Total |
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Travel
From |
Expiration |
Points
Description |
Points
Available |
Housekeeping
|
Jun
1, 2010 |
Dec
31, 2010 |
Regular
|
105,000 |
105 |
2011 Total |
||||
Travel
From |
Expiration |
Points
Description |
Points
Available |
Housekeeping
|
Jan
1, 2011 |
Dec
31, 2011 |
Regular
|
259,000 |
259 |
2012 Total |
||||
Travel
From |
Expiration |
Points
Description |
Points
Available |
Housekeeping
|
Jan
1, 2012 |
Dec
31, 2012 |
Regular
|
259,000 |
259 |
As
The 2010 Year Progresses Routine Reservations
Are Made
Based on your point status, as seen
on June 1, 2010, you as an owner decide that you want to make a
reservation for
a 1-BR Deluxe at
Illustration
# 2 - Display of Points & Housekeeping Credits on August 1, 2010
CLUB
WYNDHAM®
Plus Point Status |
||||
2010 Total |
||||
Travel
From |
Expiration |
Points
Description |
Points
Available |
Housekeeping
|
Aug
1, 2010 |
Dec
31, 2010 |
Regular
|
105,000 |
105 |
2011 Total |
||||
Travel
From |
Expiration |
Points
Description |
Points
Available |
Housekeeping
|
Jan
1, 2011 |
Dec
31, 2011 |
Regular
|
157,000 |
196 |
2012 Total |
||||
Travel
From |
Expiration |
Points
Description |
Points
Available |
Housekeeping
|
Jan
1, 2012 |
Dec
31, 2012 |
Regular
|
259,000 |
259 |
Between
August 1, 2010 and the end
of 2010 you elect to deposit the points remaining in your 2010 Use Year
with
RCI. On December 1, 2010 you make the deposit, so that you can use the
deposit
to secure a vacation through RCI up until December 31, 2012.
Illustration
# 3 - Display of Points & Housekeeping Credits on January 1,
2011
CLUB
WYNDHAM®
Plus Point Status |
||||
2011 Total |
||||
Travel
From |
Expiration |
Points
Description |
Points
Available |
Housekeeping
|
Jan
1, 2011 |
Dec
31, 2011 |
Regular
|
157,000 |
196 |
2012 Total |
||||
Travel
From |
Expiration |
Points
Description |
Points
Available |
Housekeeping
|
Jan
1, 2012 |
Dec
31, 2012 |
Regular
|
259,000 |
259 |
2013 Total |
||||
Travel
From |
Expiration |
Points
Description |
Points
Available |
Housekeeping
|
Jan
1, 2013 |
Dec
31, 2013 |
Regular
|
259,000 |
259 |
Your
check-in date for the
Illustration # 4
– Representation of
Points & Housekeeping Credits After
CLUB
WYNDHAM®
Plus Point Status |
|||||
2011 Total |
|||||
Travel
From |
Expiration |
Points
Description |
Points
Available |
Housekeeping
|
|
Feb
23, 2011 |
Dec
31, 2011 |
Regular
|
NONE |
119 |
|
2012 Total |
|||||
Travel
From |
Expiration |
Points
Description |
Points
Available |
Housekeeping
|
|
Jan
1, 2012 |
Dec
31, 2012 |
Regular
|
NONE |
NONE |
|
2013 Total |
|||||
Travel
From |
Expiration |
Points
Description |
Points
Available |
Housekeeping
|
|
Jan
1, 2013 |
Dec
31, 2013 |
Regular |
259,000 |
259 |
|
Points Credit Pool |
|||||
Travel
From |
Expiration |
Points
Description |
Points
Available |
Housekeeping
|
|
Feb
23, 2011 |
Feb
23, 2014 |
Pool
Credits |
16,000 |
259 |
The total
necessary points to
complete the
TIP: As pointed out
in the example
above. One Housekeeping Credit is placed into the Points Credit Pool
with every
1,000 points transferred to the pool. The complimentary Reservation
Transactions come your way on the first of each year and if they are
not used
during the year they simply expire. If you put all or part of a future
year’s
points into the Points Credit Pool and later redeem “pool credits” for
internal
Wyndham reservations using the Standard Reservation window or the
Express
Reservation window, during the following three years after the
placement, it is
possible that you will not use all of your Housekeeping Credits in the
Points
Credit Pool. If
that happens and there
is a need to use Housekeeping Credits in conjunction with regular use
points
during the three year eligibility period, you can ask a Wyndham
Vacation
Counselor to use those Housekeeping Credits instead of paying for
additional
Housekeeping Credits, to
use with your
then current regular use points.
Note: Pool credits can only be used to confirm Standard and Express Reservations at Club WyndhamSM Plus resort locations and at Affiliate and Associate locations. To identify those locations or to see the points needed for your vacation use the Directory at this link:
Caution:
Future reservations using pooled credits depend upon
the availability of
pooled credits placed in the pool by other members with the same Use
Year End
Date as the year you choose to redeem your credits.
In the example above, the pool credits that
you redeemed were to be used in the 2011 Use Year with an end date of
December
31, 2011. So for you to have been able to redeem the credits, it was
necessary
that there be sufficient credits in the Points Credit Pool placed there
by
other members with a Use Year expiration date of December 31, 2011.
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