Timeshare exchanges

Exchanging

This is the reason most people buy a timeshare; the ability to trade it for a comparable week somewhere else is the world.  Let's say you own week six in Park City, Utah.  Your personal timeshare is a 3 bedroom 3 1/2 bath townhouse that sleeps 10 in beds.  Your resort is a Gold Crown resort in the RCI system.  

Your family decides that nine cold winters in Utah are their limit, and next year they want you to take them The Florida Keys.  They want a suntan instead of windburn.  If you are a member of one of the timeshare trading organizations, you can trade your week for thousands of units around the world.  Sometimes getting your ideal resort has to be planned.  But the flexibility is amazing.  Your Gold Crown unit in Utah should trade for something very nice in The Keys, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and plenty of other warm climates.  The following year you are free to go back to Utah and start another nine year run in the snow.  

Exchanges are done by hand!

Both RCI and Interval International have spent millions of dollars on computer systems.  Yet to this day they continue to match exchange requests by hand.  Why?  Because they want to try and make sure that the owner of a Gold Crown week is able to trade for another Gold Crown week, and this is one way to ensure that happens.  Please remember this when buying weeks to exchange. 

The BIG players:

Smaller Players Include: