You can now search RCI online the realtime availability your timeshare week will pull.  In my last post I wrote that if you have more than one timeshare week banked in RCI, being able to see this instant availability is a great way to monitor how effectively you’re maximizing your exchange power by comparing what one week pulls to the other.

For instance,  I own 2 weeks in Whistler, British Colombia.  Both are 1 bedrooms but one is a 6/4 sleeper and the other is a 4/2.  I now have 4 weeks banked with RCI -  both from 2008 and both from 2009.  Here’s  how many weeks are available to me from each banked week.

Year          Size Unit      # of Weeks Available

2008            4/2                           131,072

2008            6/4                           136,512

2009            4/2                           106,616

2009            6/4                          106,616

Notice how the first two weeks listed pulled about 30,000 more weeks than the last two.  The difference is not that the first two are 6/4 sleepers and the last two are 4/2 as one may expect.  The first two are 2008 weeks and the last are 2009 weeks.

The big difference between the two is when they were banked with RCI!  I banked two 4th of July weeks in 2008 and 2 in 2009.  But the 2008 weeks I banked in August 2007.  I didn’t bank my 2009 4th of July weeks until February.

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