r/HiltonGrandVacation

So, I'm 19 and I bought this vacation thing for 4 days and 3 nights after trying to book a stay for my family and was transferred to another agent. I know I have to attend a 2 hour presentation which is fine butttt I was under the impression that these presentations are simply just presentations about timeshares NOT private presentations in which they harass you to buy something (from what I have read). This trip (this Hilton package deal and another one I have after it) is really important for me and I am just trying to figure out if I totally messed up. What am I walking into and if I say no (which I will) to the timeshare, will they take back the vacation package and will I have to pay? The guy I was on the phone with did say that I'd be able to get my money back if I wanted to. Should I just try to get my money? Thoughts?

11,200 Annual Point Platinum Season 1 bdrm for Elara Las Vegas with $1,035 maintenance fee in 2026.

I got a timeshare recently and booked a trip to Blvd in Las Vegas in June. This person from HGVC called and I didn't have time to chat that much... so I said to email me. This is what she wrote

For your next trip in June, we have dinner from 5:30-7:30pm in the Miracle Mile and I can take up to 6 people. It is open bar at Gen Korean BBQ, so kids love it! All you can eat including sushi!

You can call me as soon as you know or you will be assigned an agent for that trip. Whatever works for you!

Nice to meet you!

-- is this a sales pitch ?

So last night i was calling to ask about a hotel, then i got transferred who sells time share presentation things, i decided to do it in my home city NY, they said after i do the presentation i get a gift. I am looking foward very much to this gift. It is a gift certificate for a free cruise. Now I know its not free bcuz of tax and gratuitys, but how can i get it like on paper that they will give me that certificate for the cruise when i say no and the 2 hours is up. I am only worried about that part.
Thanks

Found the offer online last year. Couldn’t fill it in as required US citizen details (I’m from Europe). Rang up and they let me complete the promotion.

$199 for 2 nights in a NY Vacation Club + 50k HH points - steal (some tax applied on top took it to something like $220! Just required a 2hr timeshare presentation.

Attended the presentation alone today. I’m 22 and work in finance. Sat down and after 5 mins of chatting and answering q’s from the sales associate (Steve) about what I do and how long I’ve done it for (only 1.5 yrs as I recently graduated), he just turned around and said ‘I don’t want to waste your time and I don’t want you to waste mine - are you even interested in purchasing today?’… I replied with potentially and that I wanted to learn more (I didn’t care just didn’t want them to think I hadn’t fulfilled the requirements of my presentation and then charge me full price for the stay and not credit the points…). He went away and 30 secs later came back and said ‘it’s your lucky day, no need for the presentation - we are overbooked’. I was then handed off twice, no goodbye and out the door after a total of 15ish mins.

Hopefully don’t need to pay full rate for the room, but they said I had met my requirements and they’d ‘give me everything they had promised’. 50k points had credited 15mins later…

No complaints for not having to do the presentation and getting a bargain for 2 nights + points, but extremely rude manner the sales associate went about it and basically called me poor lol…

Just accepted a 3 night/4 day offer at Myrtle beach, curious if anyone had any experiences here? Are the hotels decent, the salespeople tolerable or notably worse? Thank you so much for any info!

So the wife and I bought into this recently and paid in full... but were told we had to deposit $99 for what I thought was a simple phone call to get our account set up... which we did have. Then the story changed to now it was actually for a New Member Vacation Orientation. As part of this offer, you receive a three night/four day stay, and at that point you get a $100 Visa card.

Sounds like this 'orientation' is basically another sales pitch - which we literally just bought into and have nothing to show for it until our points arrive in the account.

I'm on the fence of just losing out on the $99 and not dealing with that - or maybe taking advantage of it and sitting through the pitch with no intent to purchase.

What have other owners done in this scenario? Take advantage of it or skip it?

Just curious- for owners of HGV max (not resale) - what do you consider the perks of ownership if you paid up front for your property (so you’re now only paying maintenance fees per year)? I just wonder what the actual benefits of ownership are beyond the “home week” perks.

I paid out of pocket for a stay at a Hilton Grand Club property in Destin, FL. I've never stayed at a resort before and my friend said they usually stay at these for timeshare presentations and get discounted stays. I've already paid for my vacation, so I was wondering if it's possible to attend these presentations for other offers? Will there be an opportunity to sign up once I checkin?

I got one of those 3-day trips for 169 and would like to use it at Park City in early January, but the rep said they don't yet have availability for anything past Dec 31, and to wait until October.

Does it usually take that long for them to open availability? I'm worried the hotel will be fully booked for January by then, or that flights will be $$$.

Also having a mandatory $99 fee during the whole ski season is annoying, but still worth it.

Do you tip the staff for bringing you pillows and such?

Hi all! In January, we purchased a deeded contract. We were happy, felt confident in our purchase. It was 5440/EOY, and that was fine. I started doing further research after the fact and we were cautiously optimistic.
They offered us another free stay/new member orientation. The first thing the agent tells us is he would never have offered us that contract and said it was worthless. We grew angrier with every minute and filed a complaint while in office.
As soon as we got home, we decided to pursue getting out of the contract. I looked at TUG, Reddit, etc for advice. I used GPT to help refine my letters.
I sent two certified letters within a month, as well as sent a barrage of emails.
We had a phone call yesterday with someone in management, and today I got an email saying we would begin the process of getting out of our contract as well as our money back.

Persistence, people.

Never again.