spoody
TUG Member
This is a posting of a Silverleafresorts Owner who converted to HIVC.
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This is important for those of you have multiple weeks with EE or BT.
Here is my story on how HIVC allowed me to "technically" keep bonus time, yet still lose it.
When I converted to points I made it clear that I would keep Endless Escape (EE) on one unit and Bonus Time (BT) on the other.
They said no problem and I checked to make sure it was in the paperwork.
As we know, when booking EE/BT, each account has to wait one full week before being able to book again. For instance, I book EE on one account for 6 days. BT on the other account for the next 3 days, and have a total of 9 days. Neither account can be used again until a week after the original booking, but they can be used in tandem. That was one of the sales pitches for buying multiple weeks after they established the "one week between EE/BT" policy.
NOT ANY MORE.
Under the HIVC system you have one membership number for all of your weeks. Therefore in their system, when you book EE/BT on one of your weeks, their account sees them as the same week, so you have to wait one week again before booking, no matter what week you used!
Essentially, EE/BT on multiple weeks is now useless.
If you have more than one week with EE/BT, you will lose that benefit on your additional weeks.
That was an important benefit to me - AND THEY KNEW IT.
If I knew this would happen I would never have converted to points. BTW - I had to buy a THIRD week with HIVC to get the free points conversion.
If I could do it again I would have kept what I have. After all, if I really want to use HIVC resorts, I could have always traded in with RCI, right?
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This is important for those of you have multiple weeks with EE or BT.
Here is my story on how HIVC allowed me to "technically" keep bonus time, yet still lose it.
When I converted to points I made it clear that I would keep Endless Escape (EE) on one unit and Bonus Time (BT) on the other.
They said no problem and I checked to make sure it was in the paperwork.
As we know, when booking EE/BT, each account has to wait one full week before being able to book again. For instance, I book EE on one account for 6 days. BT on the other account for the next 3 days, and have a total of 9 days. Neither account can be used again until a week after the original booking, but they can be used in tandem. That was one of the sales pitches for buying multiple weeks after they established the "one week between EE/BT" policy.
NOT ANY MORE.
Under the HIVC system you have one membership number for all of your weeks. Therefore in their system, when you book EE/BT on one of your weeks, their account sees them as the same week, so you have to wait one week again before booking, no matter what week you used!
Essentially, EE/BT on multiple weeks is now useless.
If you have more than one week with EE/BT, you will lose that benefit on your additional weeks.
That was an important benefit to me - AND THEY KNEW IT.
If I knew this would happen I would never have converted to points. BTW - I had to buy a THIRD week with HIVC to get the free points conversion.
If I could do it again I would have kept what I have. After all, if I really want to use HIVC resorts, I could have always traded in with RCI, right?