After the closing and you get in the system, you will be up-to-date with your maintenance fees. You will be able to make a reservation immediately. You do not need to pre-pay maintenance fees to use a future year's points in HGVC -- you only need to pay your maintenance fees by the due date (Jan 31?) of each year.One more question...
once you go through closing (60 days average) and get in the system, when can you book your first reservation? I assume that maintenance fees must be paid in full for the year you wish to book for before you can make a reservation..
Not sure what you are asking here... The only way you would have "another set of maintenance fees" is if you owned another property. If you have 7000 points, you can use those however you wish -- you don't need to reserve what you "own".Say I purchase 7k points resale... that's enough for a 2bd/2bath for one week. If Hubby and I want to travel without the kids we'd need a studio or 1 bedroom. How do I purchase only the additional points I need via resale without having another set of maintenance fees? Or is that unavoidable?
Say I purchase 7k points resale... that's enough for a 2bd/2bath for one week. If Hubby and I want to travel without the kids we'd need a studio or 1 bedroom. How do I purchase only the additional points I need via resale without having another set of maintenance fees? Or is that unavoidable?
Say I purchase 7k points resale... that's enough for a 2bd/2bath for one week. If Hubby and I want to travel without the kids we'd need a studio or 1 bedroom. How do I purchase only the additional points I need via resale without having another set of maintenance fees? Or is that unavoidable?
HOWEVER, if purchased an affiliate this is not always the case. For instance the Bay Club requires prepayment of MFs before you have access to the points. So you can borrow next year points, but you must prepay MF for next year. You basically prepay at the current years rates, and then you must top up and pay the increased in the current years rates when they are known. Other Affilates may have the same restrictions.
Can someone clear this up for me. Let say you have 5000 points gold season at a resort. Can you reserve say a studio at 2200 points in platinum season or can you only reserve in gold season?
Points are points, so yes -- you can reserve any size in any season, as long as you have enough points available. With banking and borrowing, you can reserve a unit that "costs" more points that what you own, or for more than 7 days.Can someone clear this up for me. Let say you have 5000 points gold season at a resort. Can you reserve say a studio at 2200 points in platinum season or can you only reserve in gold season?
Ok, so if I buy 5800 pt's resale at Hilton HHV and I also buy say 5000 pt's at seaworld with a combine pt of 10,800. Can I reserve 9-12 months out in Hawaii and reserve a room for 9600 pt's for the platinum season?
I may not be clear on your question, but say you buy 5800 HHV & 5000 Seaworld. Total points = 10,800.
If you excercise your home resort at HHV (9-12 months out) you have then used your 5800 points for that resort. This only leaves you the 5000 points from Seaworld...so you are short 4600 points if you want to take that 9600 stay the same year.
HOWEVER, you may borrow points from the future year. So if you wanted to take 4600 points from your total next year, you could book the 9600 point week in addition to the home resort week at HHV.
Of course that leaves you with less points the following year, but again the calendar rolls on and you can borrow ahead from future years as you go along. In fact, borrowing ahead is a strategy some use with HGVC to ensure that you don't end up with a surplus of unused points at the end of the year to either loose or "rescue" (salvage for a fee). Again, while a little complicated, it illustrates the flexibility of the HGVC system.