We deposited a week a couple years ago (rental fell through) and have exchanged it for a week at Caravanseri. Using it to extend our annual trip to SXM. As we're not usually exchanging, I was wondering if persons exchanging normally get great facilities, if available, or "not so great". Do they try to impress you, for possible future sale, or just accomodate you? I'm sure there are many people with a lot of exchange experience who could enlighten me. Thanks.

Over all our timeshare years we only did one trade and I have to say, we were very pleased with our exchange. We traded a 2-bedroom SXM week for a 2 bedroom Barbados week and it was delightful.

That said, the old rule of thumb was you could only exchange into what someone else had exchanged out of and you were supposed to get something similar to what you traded. I think, with all the points properties these days, that may have changed but I'm thinking, it couldn't hurt to mention at check-in that you might be interested in a purchase if a 'nice' unit was available to look at. Might or might not influence the front desk at check-in but that said, the rental schedules for any given week are set up early in the week so there's no guarantee it would help.

And the other thought is it's a seemingly nice property from what little we saw and I can't imagine you'd be terribly disappointed once there. The pool area and pool bar are absolutely lovely.........

Respectfully,

pat

The front desk doesn't have anything to do with the sales dept. What they have available at check in is what you will end up with.