My wife and I have been looking at timeshares for years. We have been to the Bonnet Creek Resort Timeshare and their sales pitch. DVC at Disneyworld about 5 times. We have been to Worldmark in seaside Oregon and most recently at Hilton in Vegas.
We know we will never care to purchase one of these at full price. They are just way too expensive. But, we are finally at a place where we are going to purchase but we don't know which we want.
It seems to me that the Worldmark, Bonnet Creek and Hilton presentations, we were lied to, in different ways, each time. This makes it even tougher to pick. Because if they are lying, well, what's wrong that they need to lie? As an example, at Hilton in Vegas they told us after we asked, right at the beginning, that the bottom, 5000 annual points, would be approximately $550 a year maintenance. We said, wow. That's cheap. By the end, they were offering us 1,100 annual points for over $800 a year maintenance. Ummm, huh?
At Bonnet Creek they told us that through RCI, we could actually get more time at a DVC resort than at a Wyndham resort through point exchange. I've never confirmed this is a lie, but I don't believe them.
One of the things they said at Hilton was, you can get a 1 bedroom for a week for $150, 2 bedroom for a week for $200, and a 3 bedroom for a week for $300 if you book through RCI with less than 30 days to go. They said HGVC is the only Timeshare that offers this.
I suspect there is a lie here and an omission of truth. The lie, I bet, is that this is unique to Hilton. Is it? The omission, I would guess, is that you can actually hope to find an opening anywhere at those prices with only 30 days or less to book.
So, my question(s) to you all.
1) Is this true? Can we actually book, and only through Hilton via RCI, for that low of cost? Are those available?
2) Were they snowing us at Bonnet Creek? Or can we get a good exchange via RCI for DVC?
3) Finally, if we just want to use RCI, or a timeshare, to take last minute, cheap, vacations, is it best to buy very little points in some Timeshare (for access to their website and RCI and pay low maintenance fees) and avoid the rest?
More questions to come based off answers to these questions. Thank you for your time and patience.
We know we will never care to purchase one of these at full price. They are just way too expensive. But, we are finally at a place where we are going to purchase but we don't know which we want.
It seems to me that the Worldmark, Bonnet Creek and Hilton presentations, we were lied to, in different ways, each time. This makes it even tougher to pick. Because if they are lying, well, what's wrong that they need to lie? As an example, at Hilton in Vegas they told us after we asked, right at the beginning, that the bottom, 5000 annual points, would be approximately $550 a year maintenance. We said, wow. That's cheap. By the end, they were offering us 1,100 annual points for over $800 a year maintenance. Ummm, huh?
At Bonnet Creek they told us that through RCI, we could actually get more time at a DVC resort than at a Wyndham resort through point exchange. I've never confirmed this is a lie, but I don't believe them.
One of the things they said at Hilton was, you can get a 1 bedroom for a week for $150, 2 bedroom for a week for $200, and a 3 bedroom for a week for $300 if you book through RCI with less than 30 days to go. They said HGVC is the only Timeshare that offers this.
I suspect there is a lie here and an omission of truth. The lie, I bet, is that this is unique to Hilton. Is it? The omission, I would guess, is that you can actually hope to find an opening anywhere at those prices with only 30 days or less to book.
So, my question(s) to you all.
1) Is this true? Can we actually book, and only through Hilton via RCI, for that low of cost? Are those available?
2) Were they snowing us at Bonnet Creek? Or can we get a good exchange via RCI for DVC?
3) Finally, if we just want to use RCI, or a timeshare, to take last minute, cheap, vacations, is it best to buy very little points in some Timeshare (for access to their website and RCI and pay low maintenance fees) and avoid the rest?
More questions to come based off answers to these questions. Thank you for your time and patience.