As a longtime Royal Resorts owner (20 years or so) I can only be sad, very sad, that Holiday Inn Club Vacations bought these resorts. For 20 or so years you could call Royal Resorts and get a week whenever you wanted one with your excess points. Last week we called to get a mid-November week. The same week you could rent for money on-line thru the resort web-site. Probably the same week you could rent for a "reduced price" thru Holiday Inn Club Vacations. Nothing was available. They could get me two days. Sure, we are going to fly to Cancun for two days. The on-phone agent could say nothing except "We have different inventory." Three times she said that. Yeah, you record the calls, listen to that one.
HIVC is, IMO, nothing short of a scam. They take the points and the weeks that are supposed to cover them and rent them for money. Leaving nothing left for points owners. Doesn't affect me/us personally as much as many of you: we traded in most of our points last year for another fixed week when we were at one of our resorts. Run, do not walk, away from anything to do with HIVC points. Again, IMO. It is too bad this is a timeshare issue or some federal agency could investigate what is going on. I mean, do a real deep dive: look at what is being done with points versus rental properties. How many points have already been sold versus what inventory is being allocated to cover them. They would probably find Mexico points are being covered by Orlando or Williamsburg properties. Maybe. Or maybe no properties at all?
HIVC is, IMO, nothing short of a scam. They take the points and the weeks that are supposed to cover them and rent them for money. Leaving nothing left for points owners. Doesn't affect me/us personally as much as many of you: we traded in most of our points last year for another fixed week when we were at one of our resorts. Run, do not walk, away from anything to do with HIVC points. Again, IMO. It is too bad this is a timeshare issue or some federal agency could investigate what is going on. I mean, do a real deep dive: look at what is being done with points versus rental properties. How many points have already been sold versus what inventory is being allocated to cover them. They would probably find Mexico points are being covered by Orlando or Williamsburg properties. Maybe. Or maybe no properties at all?