Timeshare Exchange Companies & Associates

Another very attractive reason for owning timeshare is the opportunity to exchange your week for a week at any of more than 5,700 other timeshare resorts in over 101 countries worldwide. For this you must become a member of an exchange organisation. You may choose to return to your home resort year after year, trade it for any of the thousands of affiliated resorts throughout the world, or alternate back and forth between the two! It is this kind of owner flexibility that brought the timeshare industry from nothing more than a great idea 30 years ago to the multi-billion dollar industry it is today.

Can I exchange my Timeshare weeks for another place?
Most reputable Timeshares sold are exchangeable around the world through R.C.I., I.I., Dial an Exchange or exchange organisations.

What is an Exchange Company and how does it work?
There are several timeshare exchange companies. The most known are Resort Condominiums International (R.C.I.) and Interval International (I.I.). These exchange companies are affiliated with over 5,000 resorts across the globe. The concept is really quite simple. Timeshare exchanging means to trade your week at your resort with another timeshare owner's week at another resort. Between R.C.I. and I.I., over 3.4 million exchanges were processed last year alone. Joining is easy and affordable! Costs for joining I.I. is £75 for 1 year, £150 for 3 years and £281 for 5 years and for R.C.I. £139 for 2 years, £185 for 3 years, £235 for 4 years and £290 for 5 years. There is now another exchange company, Dial an Exchange, which although much smaller, offers an efficient and friendly service at much lower rates. Obviously the choice of resorts is more limited.

(http://www.rci.com) and (http://www.grouprci.com/)
RCI is a subsidiary of Wyndham Worldwide Corporation and the world's leading global provider of products and services to the timeshare industry, with more than 3,700 affiliated resorts in 100 countries. RCI offers the world's largest timeshare exchange services through RCI Points, the first worldwide points-based exchange system, and RCI Weeks, RCI's traditional week-for-week exchange system. In 2004, more than 2.6 million exchanges were booked through RCI, sending an estimated 7.5 million people on vacation. RCI provides integrated timeshare solutions in addition to exchange including consulting, travel agency and technological support.

The RCI exchange fees are Domestic - £124.00, International - £165.00, Guest Cert - £36.00
The joining fees are £146 for 2 years (they do not have a 1 year joining fee), £191 for 3 years, £240 for 4 years and £293 for 5 years
Renewal fees are £72 for 1 year, (1 year DD - £57.00), £169 for 3 years and £269 for 5 years

(http://www.intervalworld.com)
Interval International operates membership programmes for vacation owners and provides value-added services to its developer clients worldwide. Based in Miami, Florida, the company has been a pioneer and innovator in serving the vacation ownership market for more than 33 years. Today, Interval has a network of approximately 2,500 resorts in more than 75 countries and offers its resort clients and about 2 million member families high-quality products and programmes through offices in 26 cities in 16 countries. Interval is an operating segment of Interval Leisure Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: IILG), a leading global provider of membership and leisure services to the vacation industry.

The Interval Exchange fees are currently £104 and £119
The joining fee is £79 for 1 year, £110 for 2 years, £157 for 3 years and £294 for 5 years
Renewal Fees are £69 for 1 year, £169 for 3 and £265 for 5
Gold POS is £36 for 1 year, £61 for 2 years, £86 for 3 years and £135 for 5 years
Gold renewal is £49 for 1 year, £74 for 2 years, £99 for 3 years and £149 for 5 years

(http://www.dialanexchange.com)
Dial An Exchange is an independent exchange company much smaller than RCI or II. By offering personal service and excellent value for money, Dial An Exchange has become a leader in the holiday home exchange business and their quality of service is good. Dial An Exchange started in Australia in 1995. The operation was extended to Europe in 1999, when a business was opened in the UK. The Australia/New Zealand business is owned and managed by Francis Taylor and Marc Chouniard. The European business is owned and managed by Philip A. Green. Customers are treated as individuals and offered a friendly, helpful, personal service. They are able to obtain holiday weeks for exchange in many other countries such as USA, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, and South Africa through their well established network of trading partners. Dial An Exchange IS NOT part of the timeshare business. Dial An Exchange exists for the benefit of existing Timeshare owners so that they can benefit from the most flexible use of their ownership.

It is FREE to join for the standard membership and £30 for the annual Gold membership. Exchanges are £72 UK. £74 Europe and £89 Long Haul.