This already reads like a 'love in' thread .... I'm gonna wait for a few more kissy posts and let 'em have it.
Bring it on PwrDog!
I'll help you out here. Most everyone knows that I have great things to say about High Country Club so I'll try to exaggerate a few "gripes" (a.k.a. areas for improvement potential) to balance out my hundreds of extremely pro-HCC posts.
Rosemary Beach - Waz up wit dat? This is the ONLY HCC location that I don't get. I know that Bill and others have made good points why the location is good and other DCs have properties there BUT I still don't get it. I guess you have to experience it first hand.
Vegas and South Beach - Everyone has different opinions on properties they should add but, IMHO, these are the only two MUST HAVES that they don't have. I understand why HCC doesn't have them due to market conditions and I would do exactly the same thing if I ran HCC.
Beach Front - I believe that everything that HCC buys should be as close to breaking waves as possible. I understand this will mean smaller units with the HCC budget but I don't care. I'm a hardcore beach bum and closer is better. Remember, if you can't taste the salt, you're not at the surf. (
The preceding has been a public service announcement for PwrShift)
Advanced Reservations - I want all my reservations to be two year advanced reservations. I don't care if I take all the availability from other members. I believe in survival of the travel fittest.
What's with all the Niceness? - My experience with everyone at HCC, both in-person and on the phone, has been that they are extremely nice, friendly and responsive. Then, after I get a warm and fuzzy feel from my HCC experience, I call HGVC or Marriott and get crushed by the typical travel industry indifference and incompetence. Is HCC intentionally setting me up to be emotionally vulnerable? Do they get a kick out of raising my customer service expectations so I'll get decimated by the reality that other travel professionals are cold, heartless and uncaring? Oh the inhumanity!! Why do they subject us the the Niceness when the world is so cruel?? Why???
Sorry, I've collected myself and I see that my sarcastic rant has gotten out of control so I'll stop now.
PwrHat ... it's all yours.