Welcome to TUG,
If it makes you feel better, you may have received a better deal than we did, you certainly ended up way more bonus points than the 10K we received..
We did not plan to buy either, but really like the program after the presentation... I still love the HGVC program, just not thrilled by the 29K for 5000 annual points... But now i can look back and can honestly say the two HGVC timeshare vacations have been some our best trips..
I don't know how
, well I do but we were sucked in
not once but twice!!
Once in 2010 and then again in 2013. I didn't even remember the first go around but as I said, we got sucked in again.
http://www.tugbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127290
We were looking at buying an interest @ KL. 10,500 pts, 2BR every even year w/ 24k bonus points. cost is appx 25k, maint 1,500 every other year
http://www.tugbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=194117
We started out much higher but they wore us down and we ended up with this one...
Bay Club
it was appx $13,000 for 4800 pts EOY
Maint fees were appx $1,100 incl membership EOY, and $125 member fee EOY
Bonus pts of 14,400
We were also told some of the same *lies*...
They also mentioned that Hilton was considering no longer offering benefits such as resale buyers NOT being able to enjoy membership benefits, etc.
Also you could upgrade in the future as a direct owner and that maint fees would not go up vs buying multiple resale properties you would be saddled with multiple maint fees.
Really liked the cash price benefit of the membership, which seemed may not be available if you dont buy direct ??
Luckily, TUG was there for us both times!!
which reminds me, I will be upgrading to member status as a way of saying thank you to all who have helped us along the way, in all seriousness, many thanks everyone.