Enclave Premium?

[theslice]

I am looking to purchase HGVC timeshare again after I lost prior one in a divorce. I never got to use the timeshare we had but was able to use a promotional package a year prior, stayed at Enclave. I have thought about what I want to do and see several trips over the years to Enclave in Myrtle Beach staying for a week ocean front. Prefer 3 bedroom. I know I will be taking kids during platinum weeks. I was reviewing resort information and if I read it right it appears I need 18,000 points for 3 bedroom ocean front platinum season for a week stay. While Ocean 22 is 9600 points. Looking for experienced users to verify I am correct in this understanding.
If this is true any suggestions on how to purchase enough points on resale market?

 

[dayooper]

I am looking to purchase HGVC timeshare again after I lost prior one in a divorce. I never got to use the timeshare we had but was able to use a promotional package a year prior, stayed at Enclave. I have thought about what I want to do and see several trips over the years to Enclave in Myrtle Beach staying for a week ocean front. Prefer 3 bedroom. I know I will be taking kids during platinum weeks. I was reviewing resort information and if I read it right it appears I need 18,000 points for 3 bedroom ocean front platinum season for a week stay. While Ocean 22 is 9600 points. Looking for experienced users to verify I am correct in this understanding.
If this is true any suggestions on how to purchase enough points on resale market?

There are 2 types of 3 bedrooms at Ocean Enclave. There’s the Plus (9600 points) and the Premiere (18000 points). The Premiere is considered ocean front and the Plus is ocean view. There are 2 Premiere and 1 Plus 3 bedroom units per floor. The Plus units are the xx12 and the Premiere are the xx05/xx06 lock offs.

Are you looking to go every year? Do you need to have the Premiere? If you want to own here, it will be expensive. The developer (Strand Capital) is exercising ROFR on most deeds right now. You will have to pay a premium for resale to get it to pass. If you can get by with the plus unit, it would be much easier (and cheaper) to purchase enough points for that booking resale. There are 9600 point units on the market, or you could just purchase 2 4800 point deeds from a place like Paradise or LV Boulevard. They would probably cost you around $3000 a piece upfront with total MF’s between $1300 and $1400. The 18000 points will be much more expensive in both upfront costs and MF’s.

You can start by looking at the Tug Marketplace and redweek.com. You could also contact Judi Kozlowski at judikoz.com. She’s a Tug member and full service broker who specializes in HGVC. You may pay a little more, but she will take care of you.

 

[theslice]

I would go there majority of years. 90% of the time as kids just really enjoy going to MB. What I have learned about beach vacations is that I really enjoy that full ocean front. I know it will cost more but it is what makes it a vacation for me.

I don’t think I would purchase a home week of Enclave due to limit of inventory and obnoxious pricing. I was thinking of figuring out a way to purchase that many points to book in the 9 month window. If anyone knows that this is one of those properties that is hard to book the premium room in that 9 month window would love to hear it.

I will reach out to Judi, I did reach out to Diane as well.

I suppose another option is to stick with buying 9600 points and borrowing from the next year to stay at Enclave on a bi-annual basis.

 

[dayooper]

I would go there majority of years. 90% of the time as kids just really enjoy going to MB. What I have learned about beach vacations is that I really enjoy that full ocean front. I know it will cost more but it is what makes it a vacation for me.

I don’t think I would purchase a home week of Enclave due to limit of inventory and obnoxious pricing. I was thinking of figuring out a way to purchase that many points to book in the 9 month window. If anyone knows that this is one of those properties that is hard to book the premium room in that 9 month window would love to hear it.

I will reach out to Judi, I did reach out to Diane as well.

I suppose another option is to stick with buying 9600 points and borrowing from the next year to stay at Enclave on a bi-annual basis.

The ocean view still has a great view of the ocean, it just sits back a bit more and doesn’t have the 180+ degree view the ocean front does. Ocean 22 has great rooms. They are very much so comparable to Ocean Enclave and the 3 bedrooms have a great view. If you haven’t stayed there, you might want to give it a try.

Generally speaking, the lower point rooms tend to fill up faster than the higher point rooms. My guess is that the plus rooms at Enclave will fill up faster than the premier rooms. I haven’t been looking at the premier rooms at Enclave so I’m not sure.

You can purchase a large 14,400 point (or larger, they run up to 28,000+) deed and just borrow until you run out of points in the following years. I think you would have to take off every 4th or 5th year in that scenario.

Before spending the cash to get that high point room, maybe you could rent one of the lower point rooms at Enclave or Ocean 22 and see if it would be to your liking?