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Holiday Inn Club Vacations?

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Can someone please help me out with this term? Is there a difference between HICV and HIVC? (or would that be a typo). I'm interested in buying a resale and have been told the points will transfer to the buyer. Also, what is a 10,000 point contract worth? If I look at the HICV membership guide that translates to one night? That can't be right... Help!

Here is the membership guide I looked at: http://holidayinnclub.com/pdf/2017_Member_Guide.pdf

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HICV is correct. HIVC is the typo not to be confused with Hilton- HGVC.
10,000 points contracts at Lake Geneva really have no value. It really is much less than a week. Those contracts were sold to some extent as paid retail contracts sold for a few thousand dollars in order to convert weeks at resorts that did not transfer as points as resale. If you are buying a resale points contract you want to buy at least 100,000 to make it useful to use for more than RCI rental weeks.
 

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Thanks for the info. If I was to purchase one of these smaller contracts, would it be easier to book Lake Geneva for a week through some kind of HICV benefit? Perhaps a last minute rental through Holiday Inn.

Are there any benefits at all to owning a smaller contract such as this? (especially if I'm only interested in Lake Geneva right now).
 
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HICV is correct BUT many folks here and elsewhere online often use HIVC. I did so myself at first when I joined. When I searched HICV I found that I was missing many posts because the poster had used HIVC. Thus, I began to use both terms whenever I posted something on TUG so that Tuggers could find all of the posts.
 

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Thanks for the info. If I was to purchase one of these smaller contracts, would it be easier to book Lake Geneva for a week through some kind of HICV benefit? Perhaps a last minute rental through Holiday Inn.

Are there any benefits at all to owning a smaller contract such as this? (especially if I'm only interested in Lake Geneva right now).

You can check HICV availability - that's about it. It really is about 1 night. Owning this will trigger an annual Lake Geneva membership fee of $29 and an annual HICV club fee of $126.

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Is there any owner that used to own at summer bay dessert club that purchased with hivc?
 

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How can I get ahold of the board members still at the summer bay Vegas property
 

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Is there any owner that used to own at summer bay dessert club that purchased with hivc?
I owned at Summer Bay, and at the time of conversion to HICV, we were able to buy in for only $104. We had to commit for 3 years. I got 98,000 points for my 1BR
 

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Do you know how much holiday inn will give you for your unit if you decide to trade it in and upgrade?
 

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Do you know how much holiday inn will give you for your unit if you decide to trade it in and upgrade?

I think if you bought it from the developer they will give you close to full credit towards an upgrade. If you bought it resale, they will give you a fraction (something like 1/3) towards an upgrade. Generally speaking, you are better off buying resale weeks and then buying a small unit from HICV to do a onetime conversion to points and get status.

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I owned at Summer Bay before it became affiliated with HIVC HICV. I was fortunate that I was able to buy into the system for about $104 and convert all of my weeks into the HIVC HICV system. There was another fee, I can't remember. But it was only about $200 or so. All in all, it was a good deal because I was able to convert all of my three weeks/units for the one price and get the points.

Hope this helps.
 

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The offer for the Vegas owners was a limited time offer and only if you already owned prior to the time HICV took over. If you chose not to enroll at that time or if you purchase after the transfer to HICV than the $200 offer is off the table. You would need to purchase a points package with HICV and the cost is going to be in the ball park of $8000 in order to convert/enroll your current week into points. If you were purchasing a new retail purchase of $20,000+ of new money they might give you a couple thousand toward the total new purchase.
 

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I heard someone say on this site that if you buy resale for south beach you get the points. What if it's a fixed week 29. It doesn't say it's a points based property on ebay.
 
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