Royal Holiday Club
Royal Holiday Club
Royal Holiday Club is a timeshare developer based in Mexico. They have quite a few timeshare resorts in Mexico, but they also have resorts in the US and the Caribbean. RHC also has two different ownership types. There's a fixed week ownership and a points based ownership. Since I own some Royal Holiday club credits, I thought I would share my experience with the program.
Royal Holiday Club
I purchased 15,000 Royal Holiday club points on Ebay a few years ago for less than a $1000, including my closing costs. Currently I pay just over $450 a year in maintenance fees and in 2007 there was also a special assessment of about $200. 15K in points is a pretty low level package of credits. It can get you about a week or so in a mid-level resort. Since you don't have to book full weeks, I usually break up my use of RHC points to two trips in a year, both for three or four days.
If I had to do it over again I would have bought more points, ideally at least 50K, I think. The reason why is that while the Royal Holiday Club resorts are pretty nice and there's quite a few of them, I find the real advantage of the membership is in the resorts and hotels that the company has lease arrangements with.
For example, I'm going to stay at the Affinia Dumont in New York City this month. Located in Murray Hill, this is a suite hotel. I'm staying for three nights, leaving me with about 5,000 points left over for the year. Even if I didn't use those leftover points, I think I get pretty good value for my money to stay at a really nice Suite in Manhattan for about $450 for three nights. I've paid close to $300 a night for a regular hotel there, and I'm not talking about a suite.
But RHC doesn't own the Affinia Dumont. As far as I know, they lease a certain number of rooms and nights per year. And because of this, it makes them one of the few timeshare companies to have timeshares located in major cities such as New York, Miami and Los Angeles.
Royal Holiday Club
Royal Holiday Club is a timeshare developer based in Mexico. They have quite a few timeshare resorts in Mexico, but they also have resorts in the US and the Caribbean. RHC also has two different ownership types. There's a fixed week ownership and a points based ownership. Since I own some Royal Holiday club credits, I thought I would share my experience with the program.
Royal Holiday Club
I purchased 15,000 Royal Holiday club points on Ebay a few years ago for less than a $1000, including my closing costs. Currently I pay just over $450 a year in maintenance fees and in 2007 there was also a special assessment of about $200. 15K in points is a pretty low level package of credits. It can get you about a week or so in a mid-level resort. Since you don't have to book full weeks, I usually break up my use of RHC points to two trips in a year, both for three or four days.
If I had to do it over again I would have bought more points, ideally at least 50K, I think. The reason why is that while the Royal Holiday Club resorts are pretty nice and there's quite a few of them, I find the real advantage of the membership is in the resorts and hotels that the company has lease arrangements with.
For example, I'm going to stay at the Affinia Dumont in New York City this month. Located in Murray Hill, this is a suite hotel. I'm staying for three nights, leaving me with about 5,000 points left over for the year. Even if I didn't use those leftover points, I think I get pretty good value for my money to stay at a really nice Suite in Manhattan for about $450 for three nights. I've paid close to $300 a night for a regular hotel there, and I'm not talking about a suite.
But RHC doesn't own the Affinia Dumont. As far as I know, they lease a certain number of rooms and nights per year. And because of this, it makes them one of the few timeshare companies to have timeshares located in major cities such as New York, Miami and Los Angeles.
Royal Holiday Club