Just wondering how many People on TUG have Holiday Inn Club Vacation with Points?

[Tank]

Tank seems a bit high what your point ratio? MF divided by # of points?



the price link takes you to Holiday Inn Resort booking using a AAA discount straight thru Holiday Inn. After I can't reserve them with my points you can still get them online directly on the site of Holiday Inn.
That is the direct pricing of Holiday inn. What you would pay thru Holiday Inn, Not my pricing for rental. I'm heading out to California and using banked points for our hotels (390,000) thats a lot of money for the points $2,600 in assessments for those points. On line all our resorts are available 12 months ahead with reward nights using the IHG card and points put in this. 35,000 points a night

 

[andex]

so your point ratio works out to 0.0066 0r 6.66 per thousand. or are you refering to ihg: that you have 390,000 ihg points for 2,600 in maintnance fees and transfer fees?
I was just curious. Im prestige memeber with HIVC and platnium with ihg my ratio is below 4.5ish per thousand in HIVC

 

[Tank]

I'm figuring the 20% loss to bank the points 4 to 5 ratio from the start to save them over the years. That adds up and is a true cost for the points. It definitely is nice to be able to use but its not a cheap and sometimes can save money at the resort to just pay for it vs points needed.

 

[andex]

I just recalculated it with all fees + 4:5 ratio loss, the transfer fees $5 per ten thousand, HIVC membership fees and I am at 6.2 per thousand.

 

[skotrla]

I'm at $8.24/1K IHG points.

-Scott

 

[smtundra]

I do NOT have points. Even though, I could have done it for free. I was part of the Williamsburg purchase they made. I use my week through Interval very successfully. I ddn't want to have to pay to have another system and pay to trade there, when I still would need to pay for Interval since I own other timeshares. The only thing they did was change the way it works with Interval and I can't take advantage of all of Interval's functionality.

 

[skotrla]

My general experience is that there is 10x the availability of internal exchanges vs. external exchanges because people have to opt-in to external exchanges - internal availability happens automatically when 90% of owners don't do anything 10 months ahead of time.

I don't like external exchanges where you have to deposit and hope you get something - I would much rather know exactly what I am getting when I want to book.

-Scott
Owner, HICV Google+ Group

 

[jackio]

I do NOT have points. Even though, I could have done it for free. I was part of the Williamsburg purchase they made. I use my week through Interval very successfully. I ddn't want to have to pay to have another system and pay to trade there, when I still would need to pay for Interval since I own other timeshares. The only thing they did was change the way it works with Interval and I can't take advantage of all of Interval's functionality.

Do you have a deeded fixed week? I have a floating May-July week and I was specifically told that I cannot reserve a week and deposit it in to either RCI or II. I have to deposit it in SFX or DAE, or another independent.

 

[silentg]

Did someone mention HICV in Hawaii? Is there one?

 

[Mongoose]

Just closed on my third unit

I have picked up three HICV units on Ebay. One week/150,000 at SouthBeach, 15,000 points at Lake Geneva, and One week/107,000 at Smokey Mountain. I paid a total of $12 for all three. If you pick these units the weeks convert to points without any fees. All other units have fees. I now have 272,000 points and need another 28,000 points to level up. I've heard that I will need to buy these directly from HICV to be eligible for membership bonuses at 300,000. This might be worth it to me. I've stayed at all three of these locations and recommend them. They are each unique and nice stay. Lake Geneva is probably the most ordinary, and Smokey is probably the most unique.

I had three other units. Two with VRI which I sold, and one with DRI which I deeded back. I like HICV for the flexibility. This past spring I converted the points for use at The Palazzo in Las Vegas through InterContinental. Very nice.

When Buying a resale, make sure you get a platinum week to maximize points per MFs. It makes a huge difference. I pay about $1600 for 272,000 points or $5.88/1K points.

 

[Suedeboogie]

Will resale Holiday inn timeshare maintenance costs go up

I may purchase a Holiday Inn Lake geneva timeshare, but im concerned that the estimated $490 a year maintenance costs will go up as soo as is i purchase it. Or is 3% annually a correct?

 

[BILBO]

I converted my weeks to points 4/5 years ago and so now, if I book into OLake, it's my points they quote. Yet I'm still billed for maintenance fees via each week I own.
Could someone tell me, If I want to sell/give away my timeshares, do the points go with them automatically?

 

[tschwa2]

At Orange Lake, the week will revert back to the deeded week when you sell. The new owner would have to pay at least $7000-8000 purchasing additional direct points from HICV in order to re-enroll an Orange Lake week in points. The only kind of transfer that will keep the week in points for an Orange Lake unit is one to a direct family member.

 

[BILBO]

At Orange Lake, the week will revert back to the deeded week when you sell. The new owner would have to pay at least $7000-8000 purchasing additional direct points from HICV in order to re-enroll an Orange Lake week in points. The only kind of transfer that will keep the week in points for an Orange Lake unit is one to a direct family member.

Thanks, tschwa2. So if I was advertising the sale of a timeshare, I don't mention the points I've been using?

 

[skotrla]

At Orange Lake, the week will revert back to the deeded week when you sell. The new owner would have to pay at least $7000-8000 purchasing additional direct points from HICV in order to re-enroll an Orange Lake week in points. The only kind of transfer that will keep the week in points for an Orange Lake unit is one to a direct family member.

I think the family member transfer is a specific case of a transfer via quit claim deed. If you add people (and later remove the original people), my understanding is that you effectively transfer the HICV account whether family or not.

-Scott
Owner, HICV Google+ Group