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I am a HGVC owner who knows little about Diamond and only what I have heard about joining HVC. We have a friend who owns at Polo Towers and never uses the timeshare that she owns. However, she told me that she called up the other day and was told she could now book Hilton resorts. I tried to explain that for her to do that she needed to pay some money and upgrade to HVC. She said no she already has that privilege.
 

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Using Destination Xchange, one can book Hilton branded properties with a deposit of Polo Towers into the exchange, good for 5 years.
I agree and have always felt that DEX is not a good deal, too expensive and a little bit complicated with their tier levels, but if you need a place to park some credits/weeks, it's one way to do it.
 

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Using Destination Xchange, one can book Hilton branded properties with a deposit of Polo Towers into the exchange, good for 5 years.
I don't think she meant that. At first I thought that since Polo Towers is part of Diamond which s now part of HVC that is what she was talking about and missed the point that she had to pay to join HVC. Earlier today I started to think about the possibility that Polo Towers was an II resort so she couldn't exchange thru RCI. Now that Diamond was under the Hilton umbrella was Polo now an RCI resort so it could exchange thru RCI to get Hilton Timeshares without joining HVC?
 

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I agree and have always felt that DEX is not a good deal, too expensive and a little bit complicated with their tier levels, but if you need a place to park some credits/weeks, it's one way to do it.
My one bedroom Polo Towers suite gets me a tier 5 (the highest tier is 6) with Destination Xchange. When in the past, I would bank with II the LV week, I could get Grand Luxxe and Marriott exchanges. Those Grand Luxxe exchanges ended for me with the Vidanta 1 in X rules and high resort fees. In addition I used to get 2 for 1 year membership offers from II, but have not for the past couple of years. So I banked my last two Polo Towers with DEX which doesn't charge me additionally for the membership and gives me 5 years to use the deposit. Used it for the first time for next February getting a two bedroom Palm Springs golf resort unit with the exchange fee from DEX cheaper than II. The tiers, so far, don't concern me because the level 5 covers most all the exchanges I have looked at to trade. And if I wanted to go tier 6, the upcharge isn't unreasonable.

Lately, the searches on II had been showing mostly AI required units in Mexico or Marriotts that are only studios. So for me, II is not going to work, and I'll let my membership lapse this year (maybe, unless the 2 for 1 shows up again).

I do agree that using DEX is somewhat cumbersome to use, but with a little practice works for me, so far.

Ron
 

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My one bedroom Polo Towers suite gets me a tier 5 (the highest tier is 6) with Destination Xchange. When in the past, I would bank with II the LV week, I could get Grand Luxxe and Marriott exchanges. Those Grand Luxxe exchanges ended for me with the Vidanta 1 in X rules and high resort fees. In addition I used to get 2 for 1 year membership offers from II, but have not for the past couple of years. So I banked my last two Polo Towers with DEX which doesn't charge me additionally for the membership and gives me 5 years to use the deposit. Used it for the first time for next February getting a two bedroom Palm Springs golf resort unit with the exchange fee from DEX cheaper than II. The tiers, so far, don't concern me because the level 5 covers most all the exchanges I have looked at to trade. And if I wanted to go tier 6, the upcharge isn't unreasonable.

Lately, the searches on II had been showing mostly AI required units in Mexico or Marriotts that are only studios. So for me, II is not going to work, and I'll let my membership lapse this year (maybe, unless the 2 for 1 shows up again).

I do agree that using DEX is somewhat cumbersome to use, but with a little practice works for me, so far.

Ron
Great info
 

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To the OP

Your friend may think she is booking a HGVC resort " a Hilton Resort" with her points BUT may actually booking a DRI resort which the branding has changed to Hilton Vacation club - HVC.

I'm an Embarc owner and can use my points to reserve the HGVC at Whistler. Wow!! BUT it turns out that HGVC at Whistler is just a rebranded Embarc resort.
 

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To the OP

Your friend may think she is booking a HGVC resort " a Hilton Resort" with her points BUT may actually booking a DRI resort which the branding has changed to Hilton Vacation club - HVC.

I'm an Embarc owner and can use my points to reserve the HGVC at Whistler. Wow!! BUT it turns out that HGVC at Whistler is just a rebranded Embarc resort.
That's what I meant in my earlier post that DEX can get you DRI resorts that have been rebranded as Hilton Vacation Club.
 

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ask your friend to visit and show you the reservation system she is using?
 

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that is a great real world example of DEX, thank you for posting!
 
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