I'm considering buying a HGVC property and have a few lingering questions I was hoping everyone could help me out with:
1) Platinum or Gold Season? I have young children and will be spending the next decade or so limited to vacationing while the children are on school breaks. I'm primarily interested in spring break (which tracks Easter in this part of the country) at one of the three Orlando HGVC resorts. In your experience, will the inventory still be there at nine months that I can reliably get a spring break holiday most years? Also, will a Gold contract give me enough points to reserve a high demand week? Or, should I really only be considering Platinum weeks?
2) Borrowing points? If I start off with an every other year contract, can I borrow against the future year although it's actually two years distant?
3) Disney. After perusing some of the threads in this group, it seems people have been pretty successful trading into DVC. Does the Hilton RCI membership confer some ability to evade Disney's Florida block? Or are these owners just trading using non-Orlando HGVC properties? Should I be looking at one of the non-Orlando resorts? Are the maintenance fees pretty constant across the board? Or do some resorts give more bang for the buck?
Thank you all for the feedback!
1) Platinum or Gold Season? I have young children and will be spending the next decade or so limited to vacationing while the children are on school breaks. I'm primarily interested in spring break (which tracks Easter in this part of the country) at one of the three Orlando HGVC resorts. In your experience, will the inventory still be there at nine months that I can reliably get a spring break holiday most years? Also, will a Gold contract give me enough points to reserve a high demand week? Or, should I really only be considering Platinum weeks?
2) Borrowing points? If I start off with an every other year contract, can I borrow against the future year although it's actually two years distant?
3) Disney. After perusing some of the threads in this group, it seems people have been pretty successful trading into DVC. Does the Hilton RCI membership confer some ability to evade Disney's Florida block? Or are these owners just trading using non-Orlando HGVC properties? Should I be looking at one of the non-Orlando resorts? Are the maintenance fees pretty constant across the board? Or do some resorts give more bang for the buck?
Thank you all for the feedback!