The Booking
Marriott Crystal shores is a Marriott Vacation Club (MVC) Property. This means that the property has apartments, rather than hotel rooms. I’m a member of the program, which is how I booked the resort. I used my annual allocation of MVC points. As an MVC member, I don’t pay resort fees or parking charges.
My 2-bed apartment would have cost $9,100 in cash. Which I could never afford!
There’s a number of ways you can save money, when staying here. Don’t pay $9,100 for a week..
The most popular method is to stay on a ‘preview package’. You pay $900 to stay for 4 nights (yes, that’s nine hundred). You also get 50,000 Marriott Bonvoy Points. What’s the catch? You’ll need to sit through a 1 hour presentation, about Marriott’s timeshare program.
There’s no obligation to buy anything. Obviously, if you don’t want to sit through a presentation, then you shouldn’t book a preview package.
However, if you do want to book a preview package, then email me. Provide the below information.
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Name
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Telephone Number (include country code)
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Email address
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City you live in
The packages get released every so often, and they go fast. If you want one, then I wouldn’t wait around.
Another trick to save money, is to use Marriott Bonvoy Points. I would have needed 420,000 points to stay for the week. You can buy those points for $4,038. Under half price, compared to $9,100. You can buy Marriott Bonvoy points on this page.
If you’re not a member of Marriott Bonvoy, then sign up via this link. As a reward, you get a bonus of 2,000 points, for each of your first 5 bookings. In theory, I will earn 2,000 bonus points too. In practise, I probably won’t. Each year, I earn bonus points for the first 5 people I refer to Marriott Bonvoy. You’re probably not one the first 5 people I referred this year. Don’t be upset!