RCI founded vacation exchange more than 40 years ago to offer timeshare owners the chance to experience new and exciting vacation destinations all over the world.
We’re the world’s largest vacation exchange provider, with 4100 affiliated resorts in nearly 110 countries to choose from, giving you the chance to enjoy a luxurious beach vacation, some well-earned winter sun or a last-minute getaway.
The concept of timeshare vacation exchange was started by our co-founder Christel DeHaan using index cards - it couldn’t be simpler. Millions of timeshare owners from all over the world come together through RCI to effectively ‘trade’ their week(s) and visit other affiliated resorts.
Your week of timeshare ownership is also known as a Deposit. When you and other members Deposit week(s) into the Exchange Vacation system, there are more vacation choices for everyone – including you!
So to book an Exchange Vacation the first thing you need to do is deposit your week. You can do this anytime between 2 years and 2 weeks before the start date of your week – this is known as the Deposit Window.
So if the week you own starts on 15 August 2019, you can deposit it as early as 16 August 2017. The latest you can deposit is 14 days before the week starts. Once your week is deposited you can exchange against it up to 1 year prior (1 August 2018) and up to 2 years after (31 August 2021). This is known as the Travel Window.
Please note that depositing your timeshare week means you relinquish all rights to use it and agree that it may be used by RCI for any commercially reasonable purpose including without limitation to fulfil exchange requests by other RCI members, for inspection visits, promotions, rental, sale and marketing or for other purposes at RCI’s sole discretion, including use in other exchange or accommodation programmes.
