Hi, this is my first time playing and I'm 12 days in. Town hall 17 with some t3 units. My alliance is crumbling to a stronger one. It might be over. I have no idea what happens after this? Like do we all have to start over at level one? Does my city just sit there without an alliance and if I want to keep playing I have to join a new one? Ty
Hey guys, I figured since I just attended a presentation today, I'd present the most recent experience so anyone considering it would know what to expect.
TLDR: The benefits were WELL worth attending the presentation IMO. 2 hours at the presentation, 100k points, rebate, and cheap stay.
Long version: I saw a post on this sub advertising 150k points for attending the presentation. I will note, nowhere online could I find this offer, only a reddit post. I had not done one with HGVC before. I called, they offered me 15k points. I said I saw an offer for 150. Mid phone call, the rep asks that I email a screenshot of the offer. I sent it, she said I'm not sure where that came from, but I can do 100k. I said that's fine.
I signed up, I paid $229 for three nights in Orlando. After signing up, the email still said 15k points. I called again and asked for an email verification that it would be 100k. I got it, she said she input it as 100k but the website would still say 15.
I arrived and got a studio room, a solid room that's bigger than a typical hotel room. Fine hotel with a good pool and stuff. Right across from SeaWorld.
I drove 10 min to the hotel where the presentation was taking place. I checked in to the sales presentation at 8:30 this morning. A rep comes and meets me, asks a few questions about what I do, how I usually travel. We get funneled in to watch a presentation that was about 20-25 minutes. I get back with my rep, he shows me a few suites and rooms at the hotel.
He then talks about some different tiers, how to redeem points, shows me room/point conversion options.
I told him my budget and he recommended a lower tier where I'd pay 12k that I could finance or pay up front. Then there's a yearly fee of roughly 1200-2500 depending how high of a tier you go with. So for a lower tier about 12k til you pay that off and then 1200 a year. I said no thanks
A second guy comes and starts slashing prices, telling me I could have the first year of the yearly fee waived, offered me a free week somewhere up front. I said no
The last guy comes, talks about a trial year and gives a 3 minute spiel. I say no again. First guy comes back, shakes my hand, and sends me on my way.
I go downstairs to check out. Within a minute, the 100k points reflected in my account, I got a 200 dollar rebate to any Doubletree, and a choice of cheap park tickets or gift cards. I already have annual passes to the parks, so I got a 100 dollar gift card to a pizza place (I live 2.5 hours away).
Total time was exactly two hours. I was in at 830 and checking out at 1030.
For me, a cheap three night stay, 100k points, hotel rebate, and gift card were easily worth sitting through a two hour presentation for. I had done one other presentation with a different company that kept me there for 3 hours and ten minutes and the only reward was a free week somewhere that I had 3 months to use. This experience was so much smoother. Even to literally just get a cheap 3 night stay for a few days to be near the parks, that would have been worth it to me.
If you have any questions lmk.
Hey all, if you're a fan of the Florida theme parks you may know that some hotels still count towards being "official Disney hotels" or "official universal studios hotels", therefore still giving you the early park entry perk that the on-site hotels would.
It looks like the three options under that criteria for universal includes Hilton Orlando, DoubleTree at entrance to universal, home2suites orlando. Anyone tried any of these before? Ty
Awesome stuff
Of all the posts I've seen and the few YouTube videos I've watched, I had never seen much about the rum selection at strong water. As a rum lover I'm so excited
Was absolutely terrible. It's basically like they just warmed up a lean cuisine in the back. School cafeteria level of food. Anyone know if Bob Marley is any better? Cowfish? Still haven't been to either of those. Looking for something that you'd actually go to if it existed outside of a theme park area instead of "this is fine for theme park food"