The RCI Points System

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Maximise your holiday options with RCI Points!

When you become an RCI Points Member you are a part of a Worldwide  network of holiday-makers, who like you, want to make the most of their holiday and leisure time. With RCI Points, you have the flexibility to use your Points to reserve accommodation at quality, world class resorts AND to book an increasing selection of non timeshare travel and worldwide leisure services.

YOU CAN USE RCI POINTS TO:

• Return to your own week

• Holiday at your   resort at any time of year in any size of unit

• Holiday within your   group of resorts

• Holiday at RCI Points resorts

• Holiday at RCI Weeks resorts (formerly the RCI Exchange Programme)

• Save Points to create an extra special holiday

• Borrow from next year to use now

• Make RCI Points Partner reservations (Hotels, Cottages, Cruises, car hire, flights etc)

RCI Points - You’re given the flexibility to change:-

• ·        Size and type of accommodation (From hotel rooms to 3 bedrooms)

• ·        The duration of your stay, whether it’s a whole week or a few days*.

• ·        The luxury rating of the resort and individual accommodation.

• ·        The time of year you wish to travel.

·     You can use your RCI Points to make flight, car hire and hotel reservations, with selected RCI Points Partners. Membership runs on an Anniversary rather than a Calendar basis. This means that your annual Membership runs for a full 12 months from the date you join rather than until the end of the year in which you join.

Booking your holidays with RCI Points

When you feel like getting away Just look inside the RCI Points Directory. You’ll find all kinds of fantastic resorts listed geographically. All you have to do is pick your destination, decide when you want to travel and then look up the Points value for that location. You can make your reservation up to 10 months in advance of the desired start date of your holiday.

Resort  Gradings

Resorts are graded in key factors ranging from 1key to 5key then 5L key, within each factor are the unit sizes, kitchen types, number of bathrooms and privacy and the week numbers. Out of season low key numbers are lower in point value than top key resorts in the largest units in peak demand times. This leaves you in full control of how many points you wish to budget for each type of holiday. Weekend breaks and mid week breaks have a separate point value to full weeks, all these values are in your RCI Points catalogues.

When you want to travel back to your week, resort, or resort group, separate reservation times apply. This is to ensure that you receive priority in making your holiday reservation.

Reservations

• Regular RCI Points Reservation
  Book able 10 months in advance of the desired start date of your holiday. £50 unlimited duration per booking

•  Week Priority Reservation
  If you convert a fixed week of timeshare ownership into RCI Points and would like to reserve that particular week, please call your RCI Travel Consultant 13 — 12 months before the desired start date of your holiday. This way, they can ensure that you have priority in booking your own week. No booking charge

• Resort Priority Reservation
  If you have convert either a fixed or floating week into RCI Points and wish to holiday at your   Resort, please call your RCI Travel Consultant 11/12 months before the desired start date of your holiday. This way they can ensure that you have priority in booking your holiday reservation along with other members who own at your   Resort. £30 booking fee.

•  Group Priority Reservation
  If your   Resort is part of a larger group of properties, you have priority over all other members (except those who also own within your   Group) when you call us is 11 - 10 months before the desired start date of your holiday.

• Pure Points Reservation
  If you choose Pure Points*,   Resort or   Group priority pertains to the resort or resort group where the Points were purchased. The duration or lifetime of the points is pertinent to where you purchased or converted. ATR’s points are in perpetuity.

• RCI Weeks Reservation
  If the resort you wish to travel to is not featured in the RCI Points Directory, just look inside the RCI Weeks’ Directory ‘RCI Holiday Directory of Resorts’ for access to RCI’s 3600 resorts around the world. Bookings can be made up to 24 months in advance of the desired start date of your holiday.

*Pure Points are points purchased which do not  relate to a specific week of timeshare. Management fees are paid on a per point basis directly to RCI Points. Converted weeks maintenance fees are billed direct by the   resort and are payable direct as before. Dual membership to RCI Points and RCI Weeks is £65

• Your use year
  Your Use Year is the annually recurring 12 month period during which you must use your RCI Points. Points are assigned to you based on the date your membership in RCI Points begins. For example, if your membership begins in May, your Points membership runs from May each year. If you buy additional Points at a later date, your Use Year remains the same.

• Saving RCI Points
  If you find you can’t use all of your RCI Points in any one year, your unused Points will automatically be saved to the next Use Year. RCI Points can be saved for one year

• Borrowing RCI Points
  If you do not have enough RCI Points to book the holiday you really want, you can always borrow Points from the following year’s annual entitlement. At any time during a given Use Year, you can borrow Points from the following Use Year. If your reservation was made with borrowed Points and you decide to cancel, your Points are automatically returned to the Use Year from which they were borrowed.

• Transferring RCI Points
  You may transfer your RCI Points to another RCI Points member any time during your Use Year. You can also purchase a Guest Certificate that enables you to share your holiday with non-member friends and family.

• Adding Points Ownership
  You can add extra points ownership to your existing membership at any time if you wish to increase your ownership

USING YOUR POINTS AGAINST TRAVEL SERVICES

RCI Points Partner Reservations
In addition to the fantastic accommodation choice, you can also use your RCI Points to pay for travel and leisure services through RCI Points Partners. Whether you’re hiring a car, reserving airline tickets or looking for a hotel, you will find details located inside the RCI Points Directory in the RCI Points Partner section. And this is just the beginning, as our RCI Points Partners increase, so will your choices. Just look at some of the Points Partners so far.

British Airways
British Midland
Virgin Atlantic
Continental Airlines
Avis car hire
Alamo car hire
Posthouse Hotels
Heritage Hotels
Le Meridien Hotels
Country Cottages Scotland
Country Cottages Ireland
English Country Cottages
Country Cottages in France
Grand Hotels Greece
Barcelo Hotels
Royal Caribbean Cruises

What’s more, for added flexibility you can pay for your Points Partner reservation in full using your Points, or you can choose to part-pay in Points and pay the balance in cash.

RCI Travel
In addition to using your Points against selected travel services, you can also benefit from the special member offers through RCI Travel. RCI Travel is one of Europe’s leading travel agencies and has been arranging travel for RCI members since 1987. Through working with Europe’s top airlines and tour operators as well as Avis Rent a Car in Europe and Alamo Rent a car in the USA and Canada, they can offer you exclusive and competitive prices - whatever your travel requirements.

Just a few of the ways you could spend those points

Remember the new system does not recognise ownership weeks, when they were banked or their trading power, it solely looks to see that you have the required amount of points

• Own 55,500 points and you could have a school holiday 2 bedroomed 2 bathroomed apartment suite in a 2 key resort in the Canaries in August or alternatively  two weeks in a 1 bedroom suite in weeks 6 and 7 also school holiday weeks. In a 4 key in Spain in the early part of the year you could take 6 weeks in a 1 bed.

• With 65,500 you could be sitting by the pool in the sun in a 5 key high luxury resort on Madeira in a 2 bedroom week in August or you could opt for two early weeks in a studio at the same resort and have 9,500 points left over, enough for a weekend break in a 4 key in Cornwall.

• 120,000 points could get you a two week 2 bedroom golf resort holiday in the UK in June or two weeks in a 5 key resort in Portugal in June or two weeks in Hawaii or three weeks in a 2 bed in Florida in June or 4 weeks in a 1 bed in the Canaries with 12,000 points left over.

• 164,000 points ownership would get you two weeks in a 1 bed in a top South Coast resort in the UK in August or two weeks in a 5 key resort in summer in Spain and enough for a week in the Canaries in a 1 bedroom suite. Alternatively you could have two weeks in a 2 bed in Spain 4 key in June and two weeks in a 2 bed in Madeira in October.

For specific values on points call us. Many of the RCI resorts on the online directory at RCI now have their points values online. See the resort directory at www.rci.com and click the points logo on resorts pages. Ask for a copy of our free holiday planner.

Existing Timeshare Owners

If you are an existing timeshare owner you can cede your week/s to the RCI Points system for a value allocated by RCI to your particular ownership. You can add extra points to boost this value to the level you wish to own. Call 01444473800 or e-mail ATR for details, costs and current special offers.

Ceding is rather like a form of permanent spacebanking with a value returned instead of weeks. Every year at the time of year you joined you get another issue of points. You retain the ownership of the timeshare and carry on paying the maintenance as before. Any points purchased over and above your timeshare ownership are called pure points. Pure points maintenance is paid to RCI on a sliding scale related to how many points you have in total, reducing the more you own. Mail us, use the reply form or call us on 01444473800 for a valuation of your weeks. Please include your RCI membership number.

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New to Timeshare
If you are a first time buyer and want to go straight into the leading exchange system then nothing could be simpler. Let us know what your holiday requirements or budget are and we will show you the most suitable purchase plan tailored to you own specific needs.

Safeguards and your security
The ceding and membership is done through the Trustee Co’s FNTC or Hutchinson & Co, depending on the origination of the points you choose to join with, both ATR Internationals RCI points are with developments that have perpetuity ownership. Remember you retain ownership of your weeks so there is no need to send in your ownership documentation.

Key booking benefits and special offers for existing and first time owners…………

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