Hi Sandy,
Ok, if I understand it right, the Home and club reservation start period are all different for everyone that owns a HGVC TS , correct ?
So you are saying that my home period start 12 months as soon as I check out and 9 months is about 90 days after I check out... correct ?
Considering I do not own a HGVC at this time and decide to buy from resale, what determines my Home and club date ?
What happen if one year I decide not booking anything, what are the consequence on the home and club start date ?
Many thanks for your help
Bo
Your not understanding this, or at least I am not thinking you are getting this based on how your phrasing of your statements.
The 12 months and 9 months windows are not based on your last checkout date, but are 12 and 9 months forward from today. The catch is that 12 and 9 month forward window have to include the entire duration of your stay, up to your checkout day.
So let me try this again, with an example.
Home and club booking window dates have nothing to do with what you OWN, and everything to do with WHEN you want to travel. WHEN you want to travel and book something, that DATE dictates the 12 month and 9 month window. It is a rolling window, not a fixed window.
The dates are different for every day of the year. Your use year is based on ownership, what year you use the point from is based on ownership. You either use the points to book something in your use year, or you pay to rescue them (during the current use year into the next use year), or your borrow them for free (from a future use year), or you pay to deposit them (prior to the start of a use year, into the next use year). Rescue and Deposit come with a cost. Borrowing is always free.
You are confusing use year, with booking window. Two different things. Use year in HGVC is always a calendar year. Booking windows, well with 365 days in a year, there are 365 different dates, depending on the dates you want to book.
HOME resort booking window opens at the 12 month mark for 3 a month period, thus allowing owners at that resort first dibs on booking what exactly they own at their resort. So lets say if I own in Hawaii, and I wanted to book March 3rd, 2015 for a week stay in what I owned. I could that today. I'd be using my 2015 points to do it. You can only use regular points for HOME resort bookings, you can't use Rescued or Deposited points. So I would have to use next years points during home season. If I had point remaining for this year but did NOT intend to use them this year, then I'd have to rescue them and pay for that option.
You only have 1 HOME opportunity to book a week for each week you own in HGVC. Obviously you can't use the same home priority twice in the same year, because you will use those points up when you book the home week.
If I wanted to book Hawaii during CLUB season, and you have 2014 points remaining or you want to borrow from 2015 (and you don't need your home priority for next year), today I would be able to book a stay from now to a check out of Dec 10, 2014, obviously provided there is availability. Right now there is availability during the first 10 days of December.
I think you need to read (or reread) through the new files that explain HGVC that just got posted.
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