BCI Standard Plans
BCI Standard Plans offer you one week holiday
in a specific season of every year for 51 years/ 25 years
/10 years depending on the plan you are opting for. With our
Standard Plans, you purchase your future vacations at today’s
price and for just the time you need. Considering the increasing
hotel room tariffs, buying our Standard Plans will surly protect
you from ever escalating inflationary prices of hotel rooms
and services for the next 51 years.
The Standard Plans allow you to own one week vacation accommodation
at over 100 locations in India and over 6,300 RCI affiliated
resorts worldwide in a specific property category in a specific
season. The BCI vacation seasons are divided into Peak (Equivalent
to RCI Red), Average (Equivalent to RCI White) and Low (Equivalent
to Blue). The peak season, which is considered as the most
popular season, is naturally cost you more as compared to
“Average" season band, which belongs to mid-season.
If you love tranquility and want to be away from the maddening
crowd, "Low" season band, which is equivalent
to RCI Blue, will cost you least.
Real Benefits with Standard One Week Holiday Membership
Plans
- Inflation free holidays for 51 years / 25 years / 10
years
- One week holiday every year at over 100 hotels &
resorts in India and 6,300 RCI-affiliated resorts worldwide
- Complimentary RCI Membership that allows you to avail
one week holiday every year at over 6,300 RCI-affiliated
hotels and resorts worldwide. You will get first five
years Complimentary Membership if the BCI Membership Plan
costs you more than Rs. 1.50 Lac. In case your Membership
Plan costs you less than Rs 1.50 Lac you will get Complimentary
RCI Membership for the first three years only.
- 50% discount on food during stay at BCI-owned hotels
& resorts
- Special discounts on food at selected hotels &
resorts, leading food chains and retail outlets in India
- 10% discount on school fees and higher education fees
at selected educational institutes across India
- Personalised Travel Desk for complete travel planning
services and tour packages
- Options to upgrade seasons and property type
- Member has the flexibility to avail his week in 2 splits
in a year with minimum of 2 night stay
- Opportunity to advance a week from your next one year’s
entitlement to enjoy longer vacations
- Exciting joining offer
- Easy EMI options
If you love flexibility and want to increase the range
of choices, you may opt for BCI
Plan.
BCI Standard and BCI
Plans Comparison Table
Facilities/Membership
Plans |
Platinum
BCI
Membership |
Gold
BCI
Membership |
Silver
BCI
Membership |
Membership
Period (in Years) |
51 |
25 |
10 |
Complimentary
RCI Membership
for first 5 Years# |
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Annual
Maintenance Charges |
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Flexibility
in Payment (EMI Plan) |
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50%
Discount on Food* |
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10%
Discount on School Fee** |
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10%
Discount on Higher Education** |
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Other
Discounts at select
Food Chain, Retail Outlets etc. |
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Complete
Travel Planning Services |
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Merchandise
Exchange |
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Applicable
for BCI Standard Plans. |
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Applicable
for BCI
Plans |
* With BCI owned hotels and resorts.
** With selected BCI affiliate Schools and Educational Institutes
across India.
# Complimentary RCI Membership for the first Five Years
with Membership Plan above Rs 1.5 Lac.
Complimentary RCI Membership for the first Three Years with
Membership Plan below Rs. 1.5 Lac
Apart from our BCI standard membership plans that allow
you to have one week holiday in the most exotic locations,
we also have BCI
Plans that offer you exclusive privileges of holiday with
the luxury of complete flexibility. BCI
Plans give you the
choice of converting standard holiday week into points,
allowing you to split one week holiday into short vacation
options.
BCI membership with the advantage of BCI points gives you
the opportunity to utilize more or less than a fixed week
vacation, ability to make the most of longer periods of
low season or shorter periods of high seasons using the
same amount of points. That’s not all; you can also exchange
your BCI Points with BCI Merchandise. So you can absolutely
do whatever. With BCI points, options are aplenty. It’s
for you to decide when, where and how you would like to
use your plans.
What is BCI Point?
BCI points are the units allocated every
year to the members who opt for BCI 
Plans. BCI points are exchanged with hotel rooms at over 100
hotels and resorts in India as well as BCI merchandise.
Once you opt for BCI
Plan, you are credited with a fixed quota of BCI points
every year for the number of years you have bought the membership
plan. For your stay at hotels or resorts whether it is for
vacation or leisure or business or pilgrimages, you exchange
your BCI points with room nights. In this way, you pay in
money only when you purchase your membership plan and enjoy
all the benefits offered by BCI for the entire period of
your membership.
Your Exclusive BCI Point Privileges
- Enjoy flexible holidays every year for 51 years / 25
years / 10 years at over 100 hotels & resorts in India
and 6,300 RCI-affiliated resorts worldwide
- Complimentary RCI Membership that allows you to avail
one week holiday every year at over 6,300 RCI-affiliated
hotels and resorts worldwide. You will get first five years
Complimentary Membership if the BCI Membership Plan costs
you more than Rs. 1.50 Lac. In case your Membership Plan
costs you less than Rs 1.50 Lac you will get Complimentary
RCI Membership for the first three years only.
- Options to exchange BCI points with BCI merchandise like
Laptops, BlackBerry, LCD TV, AC, Refrigerators and Household
Goods
- 50% discount on food during stay at BCI-owned hotels
& resorts
- Special discounts on food at selected hotels & resorts,
leading food chains and retail outlets in India
- 10% discount on school fees and higher education fees
at selected educational institutes across India
- Personalised Travel Desk for complete travel planning
services and tour packages
- The greatest value and the most flexible choices for
stay at over thousands of destinations worldwide
- Options to go on a week long vacation or choose to keep
it short for the weekend
- Flexibility to use your points for vacations or business
trips as many times as you want
- Options to use points for one night too.
- Opportunity to advance a week from your next one year’s
entitlement to enjoy longer vacations
- Exciting joining offer
- Easy EMI options
How to Use Point System
To enjoy your BCI
Plan and get the maximum advantage for your stay
at over 100 hotels and resorts in India, you should know how
to use your BCI Point System.
Once you become a BCI member with BCI
Plan, you will be credited with a fixed BCI points
every year for the number of years you have bought the membership.
For example, if You have bought BCI Platinum Membership
for Average Season (Equivalent to RCI White), you will be
credited with 84 points every year for the next 51 years.
You will be entitled to utilise these BCI points for your
stay at over 100 selected hotels & resorts in India
and many other benefits offered by BCI. You will have the
option of using either RCI exchange or BCI point system
in a year. To enjoy your vacation at RCI-affiliated resorts,
you will have to deposit your weeks with RCI. In this case
RCI exchange rules will be applicable.
Accommodation & Property Types
Accommodation types vary from hotel-to-hotel
depending on their rooms, facilities, location, season and
other features. You have a huge variety to choose from - with
different sizes and features. These BCI points that a member
uses depends on all these features. They also vary on the
basis of how many people stay in a room along with accommodation
type you opt for. BCI points system changes with the season
too. This means if you are holidaying in a higher season,
the number of points used will be higher and vice versa.
Duration
If you don’t get time to take a vacation
out of your busy schedule, you can accumulate your BCI points
/ week up to maximum of three consecutive years. Your entitlement
for the first year stands void if it is not used within three
years from the commencement date of the membership usage.
RCI Exchange
In order to enable our members to experience
enjoyable holidays and business trips around the world, we
have associated with RCI. To spend holidays at over 6,300
RCI affiliated resorts, as a member you will have to deposit
your Week in RCI exchange system. In this case RCI terms and
conditions will be applicable.
Upgrade Your Membership Plan
With BCI Membership, you will always have
an option to upgrade your membership plan. If you opt for
Gold Membership Plan while purchasing a BCI membership and
want to upgrade your membership from Gold to Platinum in future,
all you will only have to do is to raise a request at customer
care and pay the difference amount on membership fees of your
existing membership plan and the plan you want to upgrade
in. In this case, the prevailing price list will be applicable.
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