HGVC contradicts timsharing 101?????

[Zac495]

A little advise please.


I Live two hours from Orlando. My wife and I love Orlando, but we also love to travel to other places. In your opinions, if I were to get a good buy on HGVC week at International Drive or at Sea World, would I have the same trading power as other HGVC owners with the same point level? Would I have same or lower trading power with RCI? Or should I look to buy elsewhere?

I'll repeat what someone else said on this thread - if you want to go to Hawaii on a particular week in the summer, buy Hawaii. You can book 12 months out. You will likely get what you want. If you're flexible, I'd buy something with lowe maintenance fees. Call Seth Nock. He's a fabulous broker (I totally trust him - bought 2 timeshares from him - and he's well known on TUG).

Good luck.

 

[luv2vacation]

I've also bought 2 TS's from Seth. He's very knowledgeable and wonderful to work with.

 

[benjaminb13]

3 from seth- do I hear 4?

 

[CatLovers]

We ignored the BUY WHERE YOU WANT TO GO rule!

At one point in time we owned 5 traders that we had never EVER been to ... bought them purely to trade and we have done REALLY well!

For more info, see my post #14 in this thread:
http://www.tugbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?p=561958#post561958

 

[Troopers]

At one point in time we owned 5 traders that we had never EVER been to ... bought them purely to trade and we have done REALLY well!

For more info, see my post #14 in this thread:
http://www.tugbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?p=561958#post561958

Thanks Catlovers.

I started both threads, this one in the Hilton forum as well as the one on the Starwood forum. I've been looking into buying a Hilton TS and found that most here suggest buy where it's cheap (i.e. LV) and not where they want to go. I don't think that's generally true with Starwood owners. I'm not sure why because both system are very similar.

 

[Bill4728]

Thanks Catlovers.

I started both threads, this one in the Hilton forum as well as the one on the Starwood forum. I've been looking into buying a Hilton TS and found that most here suggest buy where it's cheap (i.e. LV) and not where they want to go. I don't think that's generally true with Starwood owners. I'm not sure why because both system are very similar.

It true for HGVC and not for Starwood because, most of the time, HGVC owners have little problem reserving a week at almost all the different HGVC resorts ( except for the affiliate resort locations) where Starwood owners report that they have a difficult time using their points (staroptions) at the high demand starwood resorts.