terces
TUG Member
- Joined
- Feb 18, 2013
- Messages
- 311
- Reaction score
- 84
- Points
- 238
- Location
- Alberta
- Resorts Owned
- HGVC LVB x3, Sandos Mexico for RCI points
The Timeshare world is like a quote I heard about golf "deceptively simple and endlessly complicated". We were owners of a tiny Mexican RCI timeshare - in fact we were blowing off the RCI points and only going to the Mexican resort. At the same time we had a motor home and came to a point in our lives that we would need a bigger one or find a different way to travel so we sold it and made a decision to give time sharing a fair shake. A friend hated his TS but had over 200,000 RCI points stockpiled, so we acquired them from him, subsequently we bought another 200,000 on the open market and when we added in our own points we had over 500,000 RCI points to use without sticking our heads any further into the noose of the timeshare ownership world. This was perfect. We were able to book 13 different weeks over a year and a half long period. During this "test" period we were able to try out 3 different HGVC properties and we also happily went to a number of presentations. I also spent the time following all the relevant threads on TUG and asking lots of questions. I will not go into all of the reasons we decided on HGVC as they have been repeated often here. The reason I am posting this is to encourage people considering this or any system is to find a way to give it a try before buying.