Anyone know what happens when HGVC points change?

[ljmiii]

It may have happened elsewhere, but I'm looking at the HHV Grand Islander. Mountain View Platinum 1BR deeds originally sold as 7000 points (now 11,200) and Resort View Platinum 1BR as 7,200 (now 11,520). But somewhere along the way HGVC changed MV rooms to cost the same as RV - the published point chart no longer lists MV separate from RV and though you can choose MV or RV when you book on the website they both cost the same RV price.

My question is what happens if you buy the deed of a room on which HGVC changed the points cost. Can you still make a Home Week reservation for 7 nights even though you don't have enough points to book it?

 

[rjp123]

Deeded owners own a room type for a week during a season, which converts into points.

So if they change the value of your season/room type, the number of points you get would change as well.

That's my guess.

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[Nomad420]

I think this point change had to do with the merger with I believe RCI where we adopted there point schedule. Someone will correct me on this if I am wrong. But I have been told numerous times that they cannot change the point value on your purchase. As above, if you bought a week of points you'll always have a week (or the equivalent points). Don't know if this makes sense but bottom line your home week reservation stands.

 

[RX8]

Are you sure that the mountain view used to be 7,000 points? Here is an old website (from 2016) in which mountain view and resort view are both listed as 7,200 points.

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[ljmiii]

Are you sure that the mountain view used to be 7,000 points? Here is an old website (from 2016) in which mountain view and resort view are both listed as 7,200 points.

I can tell you that the docs given to buyers of the GI shows Platinum MV 1BRs at 7000 Club Points. And that the listing I'm looking at is for a Platinum GI 1BR with 11,200 new (7000 old) points per year unlike another listing that shows 11,520 new (7200 old) points per year.

And I have a 2012 HGVC Guide that doesn't show GI and the 2016 one that just shows Platinum 1BRs at 7200...but I don't have the years in between.

 

[RX8]

I can tell you that the docs given to buyers of the GI shows Platinum MV 1BRs at 7000 Club Points. And that the listing I'm looking at is for a Platinum GI 1BR with 11,200 new (7000 old) points per year unlike another listing that shows 11,520 new (7200 old) points per year.

And I have a 2012 HGVC Guide that doesn't show GI and the 2016 one that just shows Platinum 1BRs at 7200...but I don't have the years in between.View attachment 88656

Grand Islander didn’t open until 2017 so you won’t find much, if anything, before 2016. Not sure what the doc is that you have posted above but my guess that the 7,000 Mountain View platinum is a typo and should be 7,200 to match the resort view. Notice that the gold week of 5,100 matches the resort view.

 

[Talent312]

Whatever.
If (or when) HGVC changes point requirements for your week, the annual point allotment for your week is similarly changed so you can continue to make home-week bookings with that week (if you wish).

 

[PigsDad]

I agree that it was most likely a typo on that pre-construction brochure. Related to the original question, the only point adjustment HGVC has done that I know of was many years back at Flamingo. As I recall, they used to have a few Bronze season weeks, and they were all bumped up to Silver season. The owners of those weeks got bumped up in points just as @Talent312 described. There may have been other adjustments; maybe others may know.

Kurt

 

[ljmiii]

I agree that it was most likely a typo on that pre-construction brochure....

It could well be. Though I am left with the mystery of the 11,200 1BR point contract offered for sale as there is are no other 11,200 (old 7,000) point weeks at GI. I have an email into the seller asking about it...I was just hoping for a non-biased confirmation that the deed could book the MV GI week.

 

[fys]

I agree that it was most likely a typo on that pre-construction brochure. Related to the original question, the only point adjustment HGVC has done that I know of was many years back at Flamingo. As I recall, they used to have a few Bronze season weeks, and they were all bumped up to Silver season. The owners of those weeks got bumped up in points just as @Talent312 described. There may have been other adjustments; maybe others may know.

Kurt

Ft Myers Beach Bronze got upgraded to Silver as well.

 

[ljmiii]

Mystery solved (sort of). The RE agent for the deed got back to me and without explanation described what he had for sale as a 11,520 point GI 1BR deed (w/no mention of view) and at the same time changed the listing from 11,200 to 11,520 points.

So either HGVC adjusted the GI Mountain View 1BR deeds early in the sales process to match the Resort View ones and the RE agent just put what was on the deed in the listing or the GI sales doc I have has a typo of 7,000 instead of 7,200 for MV and the RE agent mistakenly copied and pasted his listing from some other 11,200 point HGVC deed.