What should we buy? New York

[broadwaylover]

Hi everyone! We are new to timeshares/vacation clubs, but recently went to a Hilton presentation in New York and were almost persuaded. I have since read up about everything a bit, but it is all very complicated and confusing to me still. We go to New York a lot (and travel a ton in general), so it could make sense. We are particularly interested in resales. Our main object is to save money, as we spend 10k+ each year on hotels in New York. Last year it was probably around 20k. Thank you for your help and insight!

1) Is there a vacation destination you wish to visit most of the time or on a regular basis? if so where?
Yes, New York.

2) Do you want to visit your home resort at least half the time, or do you want to trade more than half the time?
Visit my home resort more than half the time.

3) What are your 5 top trade destinations?
New York, Ocean City, Orlando, Germany, Italy.

4) How many people do you usually travel with - total, including yourself?
5 - 2 adults and 3 small children (7 yr old twins and a 1 yr old). Sometimes my mom travels with us as well.

5) Can you travel any time, or are you locked into the school schedule?
Locked into a school schedule, but we take the kids out of school sometimes to travel, and sometimes we travel without them.

6) Can you make firm plans 12 or more mos. in advance?
For the most part No.

7) Can you vacation for a full week at a time?
We usually only do 2-4 days

8) What level of accommodations do you prefer on a scale of 1 to 5 stars?
3-5 stars. We usually stay at Marriott or Hilton properties, but holiday inns have been nice because of their family suites as well.

9) How much can you afford to spend upfront, without financing?
20k. But I would prefer it to be much lower.

10) How much can you afford to spend every year for a maintenance fee that will come due right after Christmas, and increase each year?
5k is my absolute max comfort level. I won't go broke if it is more than that, but would prefer not to spend that.

11) Are you a detail oriented planner?
I can be, as long as the kids leave me alone for a couple of hours

12) Do you understand that once you buy a timeshare, it may be very difficult to sell or give away, and you are responsible for all fees, until you do?
Yes I understand

 

[TolmiePeak]

I've stayed at W57th 3 times this year already. I have contracts at the Las Vegas properties as the maintenance fees are far lower. No problem making reservations in New York though. The studio units are 2 person max so you are going to run into problems with 3 kids.

 

[broadwaylover]

I've stayed at W57th 3 times this year already. I have contracts at the Las Vegas properties as the maintenance fees are far lower. No problem making reservations in New York though. The studio units are 2 person max so you are going to run into problems with 3 kids.

ooh I hadn't considered just buying a different property. We did a presentation at New York Hilton Midtown and their 1 bedroom suites had a pullout couch that would have worked great for our family. But still not sure if Hilton vacation club is actually right for our family. The presentation really wasn't very informative at all, even though it was three hours long. She mostly just talked about how we needed this but not about what it actually was and how to use it.

 

[TolmiePeak]

ooh I hadn't considered just buying a different property. We did a presentation at New York Hilton Midtown and their 1 bedroom suites had a pullout couch that would have worked great for our family. But still not sure if Hilton vacation club is actually right for our family. The presentation really wasn't very informative at all, even though it was three hours long. She mostly just talked about how we needed this but not about what it actually was and how to use it.

I have found HGVC is easy to use and understand. There is plenty of availability in the places I would like to go, Las Vegas, Hawaii, New York, Orlando. Easy to make reservations at those places if you are not too picky. Where you run into problems is if you are tied to certain dates like school vacation breaks. Or if you want larger units in places like New York where the vast majority of the units I believe are studios that have a max occupancy of 2 people. Still that worked fine for us at W 57th when we had 4 people. We just book 2 studios. Still cheaper than booking hotel rooms.