I used to own Bluegreen but I got out a couple years ago. Some of the resorts are ok, others not so much. To me the MFs were really high for what you get. And I hear they have recently been cracking down really hard on renters.
What is actually funny is that some bg owners think that the bg resorts are the best in the business and they would not lower their standards to trade
Don't get me wrong, some are pretty nice. I really liked the Club at Big Bear Village, for example. But the Sheratons, Westins and Marriotts I've been to so far have been at least as good, if not better than any of the Bluegreens I went to. And the average cost per night I paid via MFs was actually more with Bluegreen than what I'm paying through Vistana.
I think the owners remarks that no resorts are as good as Bluegreen just demonstrate they haven’t traveled much. Yes some are great. I own at Christmas mountain. I have two weeks booked in a row. Some woman asked if anyone had anything available for these two weeks. I offered them to her for $300 a week. She drove around and said she and her mother would just stay in a hotel. Must look pretty bad to turn down a two bedroom place for a hotel room.
We have stayed at several BG resorts that have been filthy, dumpy and terrible. And their Choice Hotels are junk, too.
You might want to check your facts. Bluegreen doesn't own Choice Hotels. Choice Hotels is a major hotel chain that is buying out Wyndham (so I have been told). Just like many chains there are nice hotels and some lower end hotels. Bluegreen allows you to convert your vacation club points to Choice Hotels points as an added option - so they have an agreement with them. Choice has many high end options such as Cambria Hotels and Ascend Collection. Also, curious what BG properties you consider to be filthy and dumpy? We own with several timeshare companies - one of which is Bluegreen - we have not found this to be the case. In fact, they have bought out multiple properties over the years to add to their collection and have done a great job of renovating those that needed work. They also bought some million dollar condo units and turned them into a vacation club property in Savannah. What we like about Bluegreen is they have some unique properties that are not cookie cutter, large resort style. They have cabins, and yurts, and boutique city properties.
It doesn't make many BG owners feel good that HGVC bought them either. There is a definite fear of what changes lie ahead.
I think that both sides of this deal are concerned about change.
Certainly agree with that statement.
This "offer" was actually made to both HGVC and DRI members. But the "offer" wasn't actually $7K, it was actually an additional developer purchase or upgrade of either DRI or HGVC (which appears to be much more than the $7K). If someone owned both DRI and HGVC, then only the membership where the additional developer purchase was made was upgraded to HgvMax (unless owner made upgrades to both sides).
Thanks for the additional Information - I could see how a developer purchase could be much more than $7,000. As a HGVC owner, I don’t imagine you saw much value in having access to lower quality DRI resorts ( and certainly not BG) unless it was location driven.
Very good question and the answer to that question is the reason which most TUG members haven't "upgraded", IMO.
With BG, you can reserve your PUP priority use period 13-11 month 1 day out - and any/all point reservations at 11 months.
I've owned 10,000 Bluegreen Points at the Lodge Alley Inn (Spring) since 2001. Since we live in CHS, we don't stay at the Lodge Alley Inn. There was a time I could trade back into Blue Green resorts via RCI. These were resorts that I did not have enough points to use to reserve through Bluegreen. However, Bluegreen closed that "back door." And as they have acquired more properties, the points required for the new have risen greatly. There is not much I can do but trade through RCI for something outside of the Bluegreen system or reserve with BG for less than a week close to home. However, there are two Manhattan Hilton hotel room properties that I can trade into for 10,000 points a week through RCI. I'm just afraid that Hilton is going to close that "back door" too. I'm finally seriously considering getting out of Bluegreen.
lol... We just bought into The Club with HGV Max which means we have Diamond Resorts trust points in the US Collection with access to Hilton Grand Vacation Resorts through HGV Max. They informed us during our purchase about the new Diamond and Bluegreen acquisitions. I didn't know anything about Diamond but had been to a sales presentation for Bluegreen maybe back in 2016 or so? I didn't purchase because I couldn't afford it at the time. Now, buying in to Hilton Grand Vacations and having them add on Bluegreen, and I guess Diamond Resorts... I see it as a bonus, although I see we already have access to some Bluegreen resorts through our exchange program with Destination Xchange.
This doesn’t mean that you will have access to the BG resorts. The last message that I saw from HGV on the subject was that they are still evaluating it.
