I have mentioned in other posts over the years, my parents bought into HGVC over 25 years ago and have since passed. My sister and I were on the deeds and successfully got rid of one contract by handing it back (Bay Club) without any costs. We just do not use the points to justify the annual maintenance fees and have found HGV policies re booking very restrictive (I am DVC owner and have to say their system is much better - you don't pay each time to use points, can cancel up to 31 days and automatically get the points back without any cost, can easily merge (see below), etc.). We have tried a few places -those that are consistently ranked as the better HGV properties- but as I am sure everyone knows, it is hard to get the dates we want.
With that, I have two questions:
1) many have the 3 night minimum. I see pockets where 2 nights are available. Assume there is no way to book those 2 nights regardless of the fact that it is available?
2) If the window states it goes through Sept 6 for example, you can only book Sept 6 not several days starting on Sept 6, correct? If so, do you book day by day to try to get a week? As a side, I actually found use last month for the points for a quick trip to NYC. Got the one night and then decided to stay an extra day and looked and saw it was later available and booked it. Same unit type, etc. I reached out to HGV to merge the reservation and they said they do not do that. I spoke to W 57th and they noted it in their system so I would not have to check out and re check in but curious how the other properties are with that? Again, with DVC it is a simple chat function request to merge the reservations when the units are the same and it is done immediately.
Just trying to get any use out of the many points we now have for 2026 and most likely will turn it back into HGV (for a cost) at the end of this year. Thanks for any guidance!
With that, I have two questions:
1) many have the 3 night minimum. I see pockets where 2 nights are available. Assume there is no way to book those 2 nights regardless of the fact that it is available?
2) If the window states it goes through Sept 6 for example, you can only book Sept 6 not several days starting on Sept 6, correct? If so, do you book day by day to try to get a week? As a side, I actually found use last month for the points for a quick trip to NYC. Got the one night and then decided to stay an extra day and looked and saw it was later available and booked it. Same unit type, etc. I reached out to HGV to merge the reservation and they said they do not do that. I spoke to W 57th and they noted it in their system so I would not have to check out and re check in but curious how the other properties are with that? Again, with DVC it is a simple chat function request to merge the reservations when the units are the same and it is done immediately.
Just trying to get any use out of the many points we now have for 2026 and most likely will turn it back into HGV (for a cost) at the end of this year. Thanks for any guidance!
