RCIReviews of rci.com

We have been happy owners in freehold resort in Fiji for 21 years. We bought it so that we can visit Fiji regularly, and we do. The short version of this review is that we have been members of RCi for a number of years and have only space banked our weeks when we just couldn’t get to Fiji and the year that the resort underwent extensive renovations. In that time we have NEVER received an exchange that we requested. We changed to Dial an Exchange for quite a few years, and when we did make a request, it always was met. Due to pandemic lockdowns we couldn’t visit Fiji for three years. We caught up with three weeks in 2022. At the time we were with DAE and the management at our resort held some weeks open for us , aligned with our 2022 week and the exchange back to our own resort happened in two days. EASY. A genuine mistake meant our 2021 week was deposited into RCI, so we went with it. We put in a request for two resorts in Australia and after 16 months of waiting with no result !!!!! ( not in school holidays by the way) we requested our own week is to be exchanged into our own resort! We know that we can get in. Our 2025 week is already booked in. Our management has said it will not be a problem. That was almost three months ago. Fiji Airways has a sale on. It’s now six months until we want to go. But we can’t book discount flights because RCI won’t facilitate a direct exchange the way that DAE did SO easily. We have paid membership fees and of course there will be an exchange fee and if ( may not ever happen) we do get an exchange into our own resort, the airfares could be far more expensive. So RCi makes your money VANISH and what should be a pleasant experience is infuriating!

Went online Saturday evening and booked vacation only to be confirmed as .......error! Tried half an hour later and website under maintenance. Sunday morning tried again half a dozen times but check i n date range not functioning!! Tried calling customer service but not open!!!

Theft is all I can say. They are denying me access to my account. Trying to charge me another $434 to "see my account" as they locked me out and are basically blackmailing me. Stay FAR away from this scammy company!!!! The chat person "Marcus" ended the chat when I questioned how they can do this. Just ended it instantly and I couldn't even reply again. Ill be getting an attorney for all the money they have scammed from me.

We've been using timeshare for over 25 years. In the past it was much easier to get an exchange and there was just an annual RCI fee and an exchange fee. Now when you add up all their ridiculous fees, a membership fee, then RCI plus membership fee, then points combining fee, then an exchange fee, then an RCI insurance fee etc etc before you even travel you'd be spending well over a $1000-$2000 or more ( that depends how much your maintenance fee is when you add it to all RCI fees), and on top of that when you add your airfares and travel insurance you won't have any money left for your actual holiday. I am not even counting your initial fee that you paid to buy your timeshare, $20,000-$50,000! Just do yourself a favour and buy an all inclusive package, food, accommodation, airfares for $500, or sometimes even less, and enjoy a 4*-5* resort. The timeshare resorts are all run down, all look like 2*-3*motels. IT'S SIMPLY NOT WORTH IT! Timeshare is a thing from the past, and should stay there. Nowadays you will be paying maintenance fee for the resort where you "own", and they will be renting it to the public at a profit. RCI consultants are based in the Philippines and are completely ignorant about the whole timeshare concept. Because the timeshare weeks go to the rental market, your only option would be to accept a holiday year after year, in the rundown leftover remote resorts, at the same remote locations, faraway from everything! RCI IS A SCAM nowadays, don't join, especially since Wyndham took over! No benefits, just your hard earned money going down the drain!

If I could give a ZERO I would! You will never be able to exchange your week. You are the one who pays the maintenance fee, and they will use your week for their rental accommodation. We have never ever been able to exchange our weeks in any of the destinations we wanted to go. We always go to the same run down resorts that nobody wants them! DON'T EVER GET SUCKED INTO BUYING TIMESHARE! IT'S MONEY GOING DOWN THE DRAIN, AND DON'T EVER JOIN RCI!!

Not all that glitters is Gold. We were "sold" by an RCI representative, a week in Siena and a week in Malta. Pressure was put on us to use up points or we would lose them. This in itself is criminal. However, once they dazzle you with all the glossy pics, we enthusiascally fly across the the world literally coming from Australia. We find the Siena accommodation is not actually Siena at all. In fact it's about one hundred odd kilometres from Siena, in the most remote part of Italy. Nearest town with services is a 30 min drive down the mountain. Plus there is a tendency in these places to treat RCI members as second class citizens. To arrive after 24 hours on a plane, followed by a 5 hour drive, at a cold and bare "apartment" more suitable for a monks retreat. Not one lick of barest essentials to be found, like a tea bag, a bit of sugar or salt to welcome a weary guest. The expectation that guests are to provide these essentials is outrageous. We didn't bother unpacking and spent the evening reviewing our accommodation for Malta realising its was worse than where we already were. We then booked appropriate accommodation for both our stays, considering we had come this far. I believe RCI should be taken to task and punished by the law for criminal activity and have gotten away with lies for too long. I for one will be following this up on my return.

Estafa, pierdes tu dinero.

I just joined RCI for the first time in August of 2023 because I couldn't use my timeshare week at Pueblo Bonito Sunset Beach so I had to exchange it with RCI. The last few months I've been able to search properties and and see on the lefthand side of the screen the availability listed but as of a few days ago when I search for the property it says there's NO availability, even for the ENTIRE year which I know isn't correct!! The layout of the website has changed for me. Not sure why and I've tried logging out/in, changing my password and even used a different browser but no luck with fixing it. Extremely frustrating!! I tried calling customer service and none of them have a clue as to why I'm not able to search a property correctly, even the supervisor that tried to help said, "Sorry I have no idea"???? This whole thing has been such a nightmare, so many fees to exchange my week. If I want to "gift" my week to a family member I have to pay $409 to gift it to someone PLUS my stupid membership fee of $109 a year...What a SCAM!!!! I will never buy another membership again!!!