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Re: Hyatt Time Shares (by George G.):

We also just recently (19-28 January 2016) visited the Ka'anapali Hyatt Residence Club (HRC) and found it both beautiful and expensive. We are HRC owners at the Sedona Pinon Pointe Hyatt and exchanged into the Maui resort using points left over from 2015. The points needed to be used by the end of June 2016, or else we would have lost them! The Hyatt system has split week options for using points, and that is what we had to utilize to get 9 nights at Ka'anapali. We had 4 nights in a 2 bedroom unit on the 9th floor, followed by 5 nights in a 1 bedroom unit on the 2nd floor. All of the 2 bedroom and 3 bedroom units face the ocean, and if you can get the 7th floor or higher you have a spectacular view of the ocean, over the palm trees, with the island of Lanai in the distance. Since there were only two of us, we did not need a 2 bedroom unit, but that was our only choice to string together 9 nights. However, "spending" some extra points for the 2 bedroom unit was well worth it. Our visit was during the humpback whale breeding season and there were many whales spouting, rolling over, breaching, and apparently just enjoying themselves! One person we encountered described the scene as "whale soup." Bring binoculars! There are only a few 1 bedroom units, located on the east end of the HRC building, and not all have ocean views. Fortunately we did - and the ocean view under the palm trees was pretty good too - just a little harder to see all the whales.

We also attended a sales presentation while we were there, and found the prices as expected (high). We will be interested to see how the Ka'anapali HRC units price in the secondary market - but I am not expecting many to appear for some time. Please let us (on this topic) know if you find one.

donnah508 wrote:

We were invited to attend a sales presentation in Maui and are here now. Although the property is beautiful, but they are also very expensive. For a 2bd/2ba, middle floor, ocean view, it is $68,000 for the lowest fixed week and goes up to over a $100,000 for higher priority weeks. We will wait until they start hitting the resale market at a more reasonable rate.