RCI founded holiday exchange more than 40 years ago to offer timeshare owners the chance to experience new and exciting holiday destinations all over the world.
We’re the world’s leading holiday exchange provider, with over 4,000 affiliated resorts to choose from, giving you the chance to enjoy a luxurious beach holiday, some well-earned winter sun or a last-minute getaway.
The concept of timeshare holiday 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 Holiday system, there are more holiday choices for everyone — including you!
So to book an Exchange Holiday 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 19 August 2023, you can deposit it as early as 21 August 2021. 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 2022) and up to 2 years after (31 August 2025). 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.
