What's does everyone think about owning this timeshare. Basically, it comes out to 7000 points a year. Maintenance fees come out to 1450/year, why are maintenance fees so much higher than Vegas, which are around 800 for same points?
I It’s what works for you.
There is a cost to the “security” of the Home Week. One may be the MF cost. But the other is the time cost. My home week is a 2-BR Oceanfront in the Lagoon Tower in Waikiki. I recently used points to reserve a trip for next May and I can go Wed to the following Fri, 9 days, for the same points as my 7-day Home Week. Depending on your travel days, points go further than Home Week. (Plus mid-week air is typically lower.)Pretty much. If you would use Home Week and need specialized unit sizes, may be worth the higher MFs. In other cases, there is no advantage to paying more, especially the Home Week part.
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If I had a vegas one could I use the points in hawaii even though mf are different?MFs are high because it is Hawaii. Why are you thinking about purchasing in HI? Are you planning on using Home Week advantage every (most every) year and traveling to HI?
If I had a vegas one could I use the points in hawaii even though mf are different?
There is a cost to the “security” of the Home Week. One may be the MF cost. But the other is the time cost. My home week is a 2-BR Oceanfront in the Lagoon Tower in Waikiki. I recently used points to reserve a trip for next May and I can go Wed to the following Fri, 9 days, for the same points as my 7-day Home Week. Depending on your travel days, points go further than Home Week. (Plus mid-week air is typically lower.)
So it's more ideal to get one with lower maintenance fees, and that's why those ones are more valuable...
So it's more ideal to get one with lower maintenance fees, and that's why those ones are more valuable...
Certain properties in HI book very quickly (like exactly when the club season booking window opens). It is best for club season to book exactly when the club booking window opens at most properties.
I will say, based on a reasonable amount of experience, that this is not true at Bay Club and Kohala. I don't know about availability trends at Kings Land as we don't stay there.
I just booked 9 days in the Lagoon Tower (Oahu) in the week leading up to Memorial weekend next year, 2-BR Oceanfront. I had to “walk” the reservation. I started about two weeks ahead, well before the holiday weekend. Grabbed three days. Then patiently added a night every night, and sliced off reservation at the front end, until I had the Wed - Fri (9 days) I wanted. At the same time I also booked a 1-BR ocean view, which was less in demand. But, the point is, even a relatively challenging high-demand location and room was available with points, by doing a bit of work.I will say, based on a reasonable amount of experience, that this is not true at Bay Club and Kohala. I don't know about availability trends at Kings Land as we don't stay there. I've read here that Oah'u can be tougher, but we don't stay there either. But definitely pretty cush (in a bit more than half a dozen experiences at various times of year) at the first two.
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I just booked 9 days in the Lagoon Tower (Oahu) in the week leading up to Memorial weekend next year, 2-BR Oceanfront. I had to “walk” the reservation. I started about two weeks ahead, well before the holiday weekend. Grabbed three days. Then patiently added a night every night, and sliced off reservation at the front end, until I had the Wed - Fri (9 days) I wanted. At the same time I also booked a 1-BR ocean view, which was less in demand. But, the point is, even a relatively challenging high-demand location and room was available with points, by doing a bit of work.
Agree completely. If you have school restrictions/limitations, then that’s what you have and you have to deal with it. That may mean buying at Lagoon (or another Oahu location) and paying the higher MF to ensure your home week availability. My youngest is transitioning from high school to college, and it opens everything up!Late April through early June is doable on points with diligence like this because there is a lull between spring and summer break. However, the same feat would be very difficult/low odds to reserve consistently Mid June to mid Aug at LT unless you own an OF week and use 12 month window.
I just booked 9 days in the Lagoon Tower (Oahu) in the week leading up to Memorial weekend next year, 2-BR Oceanfront. I had to “walk” the reservation. I started about two weeks ahead, well before the holiday weekend. Grabbed three days. Then patiently added a night every night, and sliced off reservation at the front end, until I had the Wed - Fri (9 days) I wanted. At the same time I also booked a 1-BR ocean view, which was less in demand. But, the point is, even a relatively challenging high-demand location and room was available with points, by doing a bit of work.
I too had heard of it, but didn't fully get it until now. This was my first go-round. <g> The HGVC website actually makes it quite easy to do once you get that initial 3-day block. You just choose "My Reservations," click on the one you are walking, adjust the slider one day forward, then click on the highlighted block. If it's too soon (not midnight EST) you get a message that you are outside the reservation window. At the right moment it will instead say, "Book Now." You click that, check a couple of boxes to confirm and it updates your reservation to add another night. (And cuts off one at the start if you also want that. I didn't slick off the ones at the start until I got to my last night.)Oh, so THATS what it means to walk a reservation??? I kept hearing the terminology but didn’t know what it meant. Now I know. And knowing is half the battle
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When I walk my reservation, I do it for like a month. Of course, that depends upon season and availability. When our son was a kid, we used to have vacations in the third week of March. Only one time I made a reservation in the middle of August. These days I make reservation in October or November.
That will only be true if inventory is available. If one is booking LT and need specific dates, then I would start earlier.There really is no reason to start a month early, I have the same chance as you starting three days before the Saturday check in of the week I want.
Maybe I'm confused, but by starting earlier, aren't you getting in AHEAD of all the points users that haven't started or reserved yet? It may not jump you ahead of a possible home week user, but it means you've shut out people that are going to do what you are doing... walk a points reservation.There really is no reason to start a month early, I have the same chance as you starting three days before the Saturday check in of the week I want.
Think about how the inventory is loaded into the database, full home weeks with Saturday check-ins. All home week owners have to reserve the full week. Its only at nine months when the weeks get broken up. Walking the week or month before the week you want does nothing, if home resort owners booked all the available units for the week you want your walking reservation will hit a wall.
The optimal start of a walking res is to grab the Thur-Sat of the week you want, that breaks up the Sat-Sat week so you can pick off the remaining days.
Maybe I'm confused, but by starting earlier, aren't you getting in AHEAD of all the points users that haven't started or reserved yet? It may not jump you ahead of a possible home week user, but it means you've shut out people that are going to do what you are doing... walk a points reservation.
unless there are say only 5 and there are 5 people like you starting a month before.