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Re: Hilton Grand Vacations Club - is it all that? (by Ryan G.):
My wife and I purchased a resale at the HGVC in Orlando back in 2006. We too were told (by Hilton) that we could could not upgrade and that we would lose all sorts of privileges if we did not buy through them. We paid less than half of what Hilton wanted for the same 7,000 points. And two years later we have yet to be treated any differently than anyone else. We still get our yearly guides (which hilton told us we would not get). Don't believe the developers when they say they you don't get the same privileges. Our only complaint about Hilton in general is that you can only book 9 months in advance for a resort that is not your home resort. That was not a big deal (since everyone at HGVC was in the same boat), until they created an "elite" membership (which costs more). Those people can book a year out while we have to wait until 9 months out. It costs us a trip we were going to send our parents on to Cabo this winter, but otherwise we have had no problems. The resorts are spectacular.