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Comparison of HVC/DRI and HGV/Max

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What are the major differences between HVC/DRI and HGV/Max other than a higher cost?
 

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Do you mean The Club Legacy versus The Club with HGV Max?
 

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Do you mean The Club Legacy versus The Club with HGV Max?
I do not know the answer to your question.
My son owned 18,000 points @ DRI The Club at Hilton Vacation Club, Greensprings Resort, Williamsburg, Virginia and that is all I know.
A four bedroom unit every year.
 

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HGV Max is just a program that you add on to your ownership that gives you access to the HGVC properties and some other programmatic perks, not an ownership.
 

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The Club is DRI and HVC.
 

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Ok, Hilton Grand Vacation owns everything that you have listed above in your post correct.

Now what are the differences between DRI, HVC and HVC/Max ?
 

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You posted your answer before I posted.
Now my son owns 18,000 points in The Club under DRI. A four bedrooms unit that he can used every year.
At Greensprings Vacation Resort, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Hilton want him to upgrade to their Max program for additional dollars.
IMHO, I feel this is a bad move.

I feel he should purchase a resale with Marriott’s.
 

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DRI is the company that HGV bought out. Many of the properties there are still DRI but, if individual properties meet HGV standards or are updated to meet HGV standards, then they are rebranded HVC. They are all still part of The Club though ... The name of the DRI program.

HGV Max is a program that you can add to your ownership that gives you access to the HGVC properties
 

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You posted your answer before I posted.
Now my son owns 18,000 points in The Club under DRI. A four bedrooms unit that he can used every year.
At Greensprings Vacation Resort, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Hilton want him to upgrade to their Max program for additional dollars.
IMHO, I feel this is a bad move.
I would lean towards buying a HGVC resale deed instead of Max. Then you get longer booking windows in HGVC. The Club with HGV Max booking window into HGVC is 6 months so leftovers.

The downside is that he would have two separate ownerships and portals but that isn't very complicated
 

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I would lean towards buying a HGVC resale deed instead of Max. Then you get longer booking windows in HGVC. The Club with HGV Max booking window into HGVC is 6 months so leftovers.

The downside is that he would have two separate ownerships and portals but that isn't very complicated
Thanks you for your answers . I will suggest he should look at buying a cheap HGVC resale deed.
 

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What is Legacy HGVC ?
non-HGVMax owner on HGVC side. This thing is so confusing to owners that many don't understand the new terminology. HGV sales just sells them into this HGVMax w/o explaining that there is still a HGVC side and HVC/DRI side to their ownership. (and I am even leaving out the Embarc Club in this discussion).
 

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legacy HGVC usually refers to someone who owned HGVC before DRI acquisition, and has not bought into HGVMax since then.

if your son bought a resale HGVC property, he would also be HGVC legacy, in a sense, because be would not get Max with a resale purchase.

but owning both a DRI/HVC property and an HGVC property has advantages over Max anyway, in terms of best booking window. but the points don't combine until 6 months out.
 

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legacy HGVC usually refers to someone who owned HGVC before DRI acquisition, and has not bought into HGVMax since then.
Or, someone who buys resale HGVC/HC, assuming that they aren't already in Max. They will also be considered Legacy unless they are accidentally get put into Max.
 

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This was helpful to understand what all of the acronyms mean.

 
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