hgvcowner88
TUG Member
- Joined
- Jul 12, 2019
- Messages
- 45
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- 37
- Points
- 79
- Location
- Bay Area, CA
- Resorts Owned
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HGVC Elara
HGVC Tuscany Village
HGVC Boulevard
I'm new and have been going through the forum and looking at all the posts as well as the discussions of elite status (and the points required to get there).
I currently own an EOY 3500 Platinum at the Elara and am in the process of getting more points. Ideally I was thinking about getting 7000 points EOY so I end up with 10500 points EOY. That seems like a crazy huge number of points that I could never possibly use if it was annually. But for the people who have that many points (or more) annually, what do you do with them? How do you spend them? I like the HGVC Resorts but it's not like they're everywhere I want to go. So in that case do you transfer to RCI? Or just plan an extra vacation cash? Do you let family members use them? With some of our bonus points (yes purchased direct from Hilton, I know better now), we're going to take the kids and go to Hawaii for a week in Gold season, get a massive suite (penthouse, 3 bedroom) for 7500 points. But realistically, we could stretch our points way farther if we wanted a smaller suite. So is that what everyone does? Gets massive suites all the time? Or takes a bunch of shorter vacations always during Platinum season instead of Gold season?
I'd love to have some inspiration on this, though maybe then I'll end up wanting to buy an annual contract
Looking forward to reading the responses!
I currently own an EOY 3500 Platinum at the Elara and am in the process of getting more points. Ideally I was thinking about getting 7000 points EOY so I end up with 10500 points EOY. That seems like a crazy huge number of points that I could never possibly use if it was annually. But for the people who have that many points (or more) annually, what do you do with them? How do you spend them? I like the HGVC Resorts but it's not like they're everywhere I want to go. So in that case do you transfer to RCI? Or just plan an extra vacation cash? Do you let family members use them? With some of our bonus points (yes purchased direct from Hilton, I know better now), we're going to take the kids and go to Hawaii for a week in Gold season, get a massive suite (penthouse, 3 bedroom) for 7500 points. But realistically, we could stretch our points way farther if we wanted a smaller suite. So is that what everyone does? Gets massive suites all the time? Or takes a bunch of shorter vacations always during Platinum season instead of Gold season?
I'd love to have some inspiration on this, though maybe then I'll end up wanting to buy an annual contract
Looking forward to reading the responses!