Reddart
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ELARA
W57th
Back door “Max”
Came to NYC for a weekend getaway, one night at the Conrad NYC and one night at W57th in a 1BR+. I always anticipate an owners meeting, and depending on the timing and what they offer, we will sometimes take it.
This offer came late, we were having a late lunch before check in when they texted…$250 off of MF, or 200,000 HH points….yeah, this is a pretty good offer. While maybe cash for MF is king, we are currently hoarding HH points for a future Japan trip where we will Hilton brand hotel the whole vacation, so we took the points.
This is the first meeting where we have been resale owners (for W57th no less). Was definitely wondering what the angle was going to be for a resale owner.
“Joe B” was friendly, and also fairly to the point. We could trade in our resale 8400 studio+ for a 11400(?) 1 Br at the “newer” Central at 5th, “for about the same MF” (not really, ~$400 more a year), for $13K, and a couple thousand bonus points (he tried to pass off the 11400 points as “bonus”, and we don’t have to pay MF until 2025 , yeah nice try).
I said we were fine with what we had. In the past, this is where there would be some additional attempts to sell us something, either with more bonus points, or a cheaper deed, but I guess since we are resale, he immediately shut the sales presentation down and sent us in our way to the closer (where we of course also declined).
We were out the door on W57th in under 45 minutes, with 200,000HH points already in our account.
This offer came late, we were having a late lunch before check in when they texted…$250 off of MF, or 200,000 HH points….yeah, this is a pretty good offer. While maybe cash for MF is king, we are currently hoarding HH points for a future Japan trip where we will Hilton brand hotel the whole vacation, so we took the points.
This is the first meeting where we have been resale owners (for W57th no less). Was definitely wondering what the angle was going to be for a resale owner.
“Joe B” was friendly, and also fairly to the point. We could trade in our resale 8400 studio+ for a 11400(?) 1 Br at the “newer” Central at 5th, “for about the same MF” (not really, ~$400 more a year), for $13K, and a couple thousand bonus points (he tried to pass off the 11400 points as “bonus”, and we don’t have to pay MF until 2025 , yeah nice try).
I said we were fine with what we had. In the past, this is where there would be some additional attempts to sell us something, either with more bonus points, or a cheaper deed, but I guess since we are resale, he immediately shut the sales presentation down and sent us in our way to the closer (where we of course also declined).
We were out the door on W57th in under 45 minutes, with 200,000HH points already in our account.