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With Wyndham, the access owners are looking at a different pool (the trust percentage) of points than the deeded owners.Because the rental companies, if they actually are owners of points, and not the rentals by owners, are limited to how many memberships they can have and points owned. They also give renters access to the accounts. They, the owners, do all the booking.
They are also limited by the number of accounts that can be set up to access that one set of points at a time.
With a trust, unlimited number of accounts can be set up to access the same set of points at the same time.
Instead of you and I who are capped at 4 associates…which is probably how it works for the rental company accounts…this would not.
And that means different rules. Think of it this way, I have VGF and RIV points in my Dec UY…no matter what, I can only book one room at a time…until my points are gone. But, what I can’t do is book multiple rooms for the same date at once.
A trust is different and allows multiple people to book the same day with one set of points. So, that is a conflict for me.
ETA. I even tried to have my DD and I try to book the same dates with our individual accounts…same membership and one of us always got the dwarfs.
Those points will have to be siloed from each other.
Let’s say there are 100 rooms that can be booked and the trust owns points enough for 25% of them. Even if there are 1000 trust members, there are still only 25 rooms for them but 75 rooms for deeded owners.
So. The trust availability calendar has to be greyed out after 25 selections - even if there’s still 40 rooms left for deeded owners.
The trust can certainly run its own calendar to throttle its demand to its percentages of ownership. The question is how does that square up at 8am at 11 months and 7 months? How does the trust compete for say, concierge rooms?
The best solution there is to move from fastest finger at 8 to a random queue each morning. The trust preselects which of its 25 members can access the queue and then those 25 are randomized with the 75 deeded owners for a shot at booking what’s available.
And this is as simple as opening the waiting in the queue 15 min early. All of both the trust and deeded owners are up and waiting for access at 8. The trust preselects at 7:59:59 (and this is a behind-the-scenes transaction) and then the queue opens at 8 with the 100 parties (75 deeded/25 trust) randomly queued to book at the same time - and that would appear seamless on both sides except that each side is only getting access to the queue based on its percentage of ownership.
Would probably even be more fair than fastest finger in the west.
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