Lets not go off the deep end... YET Before everyone goes crazy, let's find out what a "TW Contract" is. I am speculating that TW stands for Tower and that these rates only apply to the new tower rooms and not the renovated rooms around the quiet pool and the 4 and 5000 buildings. Of course, that is only a guess on my part - I have raised this question in the Premier Group on Facebook and tagged the Premier Staff in that group - so I hope we see an answer tomorrow. When I was at Temptations last month, I was led to believe that the rates in the mail we got only applied to contract signed post 6/20/16. I was told to expect that the rates for existing contract would only go up by the Mexican CPI. When I tried to pin down what rooms would be available at the rate (only renovated rooms or some tower rooms?) my contact said he did not have that info. In any event, I think every one needs to stay calm until we get some clarification. __________________________________________________ Just to note: My contract (singed in June of 2014) has two paragraphs regarding rates. Paragraph 4 relates to the hotel fee and paragraph 5 to the AI fee. BOTH paragraphs have almost the identical language at the end: Said Fee may be increased or reduced in the same proportion as the Mexican National Consumer Price Index, or failing that, in proportion to the rise or fall in the cost of items covered by said fee. (Note: Paragraph 4 uses the words "...WILL be raised or reduced..." while paragraph 5 uses the words "...MAY be raised or reduced..." Of course, when I read (or better said, skimmed the contract) before I signed it, I certainly didn't pay attention to the "Failing That" clause. And not being a lawyer, I have no clue what that actually means. In my mind, the failing that clause would only apply if for some reason or another the Mexican government did not publish the Mexican CPI. I guess all we can do is wait and see what happens when all is said and done.
We received the same email. I was expecting rates around $200, so the soft opening rate isn't bad. The $236 a night is a hefty increase and will probably lower the amount of nights we stay in the future. If this is the member rate I'm really curious what the normal rate will be. Occasionally you can get rates close to the member rates now. If the normal rate stays close to the member rate I don't think there will be a huge change, but if they try charging $300 a night good luck! There's no way most people would want to spend this much and have a crappy beach area compared to all the other adults only resorts with much nicer beach areas.
TW is the contract type. Look at your contract number and it will have a TW at the end (ours does). The older contracts are the 25% off the regular rate and don't have a TW at the end.
Steve I agree that prices aren't too crazy. A lot of the resorts we have looked at are on par with that price. My issue is that I obtained a membership with a certain price level and an understanding that it wouldn't increase more than 4%. But they are doing a 60% increase. The second issue I have is if these are premier member prices then what will be the prices for non members. I think if those prices are too high then you lose a lot of "party people" who go there because it is affordable. I am more concerned with this making the price too high for many of the great friends we have met down there and now we will no longer be able to vacation there together. -J- Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Gotta figure a non member rate is going to be at least 300 to 350 a night and that's going to price out a lot of people.
