Wednesday 20 February 2013

A couple updates: payment plan, RCI exchange power, member site

Well, it's been a few months since I last posted and I do have a couple updates.  No, I will still not be doing any travelling so I can't give you any feedback on that for a while yet.

First, regarding the payment plan.  We did take the payment plan and were contacted by the privilege club back in Octoberish with an offer of 5% off if we were to pay everything up by the end of the month.  It was still bad timing for us cash-wise so I turned them down.  The rep was very speedy in her contact with me as well as accomodating since she extended the offer for me for a while in case we could set anything up. 

I also have an update to report on the RCI exchange power my week received.  My last post I mentioned that I was a little disappointed that I received 10 exhange points for my deposited week.  This has now increased and is currently worth 15 exchange points.  This does open up quite a few more options for exchanging through RCI.  When I look at how many exchange points it takes to book into my home Jamaica resort, that has also increased to anywhere from 9 to 13 points.

Finally, I'll add a quick update on the membership site (www.bpprivilegeclub.com).  At the club website, there is a link for a member logon in the upper right of the page.  I had no success in the past getting into this member area but this is now working.  There is some worthwhile information on this site including this year's all-inclusive rates, updated member guides and such.  There is an account status link that has a separate logon that I didn't have success with so I think one of these days I'll call in and get that worked out.  Back when we signed up the salesperson was talking about a referral program and it just so happens the nephew just bought into a package so I want to check out if there is any merit to the referral program or if this was just additional BS.

That will be it for now.  I just wanted to through in a super quick update since it's been a while.

PS I would love to hear about your experiences if you've actually used any of your package.