Doug said:
At any given location, for a given room type, the silver, gold, and platnium are the same maintance fee price per year. The only difference is the initial cost of the unit. So for long term I personally would recomend only buying platnium weeks, but that is just me.
Doug
I tend to base my timeshare purchase over 10 years.
purchase price + 10 years maint fee/10 = annual cost/# points=10 year cost per point
Every time I run this number the gold weeks come out better.
If you run the numbers for 20 years than platinum comes out better
I dont mind planning a vacation two years out but I dont want to count on owning the same time share for more than 10 years
based on my purchase price + closing costs and my maint fee's for 2005 the cost per point was .2426 per hgvc point.
I would be interested if i can get this lower by buying a plat. week.
If I was lucky and got a 2 bedroom plat week for 11,000.00 and maint fee as low as 650.00 I would still have a cost per hgvc point of .25