r/HiltonGrandVacation

I booked a HGV reservation for two nights in NYC to attend a timeshare presentation.

I would also like to separately book my own reservation, for an extra night in NYC, at the same hotel. Also with the exact same room type (King Bed). (Booking through Hilton myself is cheaper than the "discounted deal" the rep had when adding an additional night not covered by the timeshare presentation promotion.)

Thus, I have two nights through HGV, and a third night through Hilton directly.

Doing some research, HGV and Hilton are two separate companies. So I'm not sure if merging my two reservations could be done.

Does anyone have any experience with having Hilton combining the two reservations into one? Could this be done?

EDIT 1: I called the Hilton hotel directly. I provided the confirmation number an HGV rep provided to me over the phone. However, the hotel could not find my reservation. So I do not seem to have any means to provide a confirmation/reservation number for the hotel to look up. I'm not sure how to move forward but to hope for the best during check-in...

My mother is in her late 80’s. She owns a number of HGVC points across three deeds I believe. She doesn’t travel much anymore. My parents added me to one of the deeds way back to facilitate me using the points if I ever wanted.

I occasionally use the points but not very often. My mother doesn’t really want the points anymore. I’m potentially going to take them all over, but her home resorts are in Orlando and Las Vegas. If I wanted to get the home resorts changed to either Park City or Breckenridge, is that possible. Even if it meant reduced points, I’d be okay with that. Any thoughts or advice on how to do that. Thanks

My parents bought HGV timeshare back when in 2023 in Oahu, but no longer find it worth it. What are their best options to get out from it?

Hello,

I went to a presentation yesterday and swore I wouldn’t buy anything but they were going to honor the pricing from 2024 and they offered me 50k hgvc bonus points that I can use over like 6 years.

The package price worked out to be 14.7k roughly + with closing costs, maintenance fee for the first year and some other fee it was like 18k roughly.

The package is 6500 points every other year and the 50k bonus points. The annual maintenance fee is $1200 roughly per year.

Is this a good deal? They were saying they have never seen pricing like this and bonus points offered like this, and they said it would be the equivalent of like 70 nights in a 1 bedroom place during “gold” season in Hawaii which it looks like prices are about 500-700 a night. Doing the math it seems like it would be a great value but I’m skeptical and have 7 days to cancel.

They said 5k points would get a week in a one bedroom or 14 days in a studio.

Can anyone give insight on their experience and if this is really a good deal? Is it even a good experience to be an owner?

I am just looking for best value and if they were telling the truth about the experience in their presentation.

Thanks in advance!

I have worked in the industry for a while and also own with Hilton. Currently in a role with HGV. Happy to answer any questions that anyone has about HGV ownership or that you don’t feel comfortable asking in sales presentations.

I was sold a resort in Vegas for $150 3N and 4days and 25k points and listen to their 2 hour timeshare presentation. When booking the actual dates for the stay, the salesperson said for those days you want we only have a one bedroom suite available so you would need to upgrade and that’s $150 more. So now I’m in for paying $300. Then 3 weeks before the stay I broke my foot pretty badly. I didn’t want to go to Vegas in a wheelchair so I called to rebook. Every resort in a 500 mile radius was completely full for the next 6 months, so they claimed. Long story short, they booked me in one place acceptable and sent me a confirmation to a different place. Hilton Garden Inn of motel 6 quality, next to an airplane runway. They would not refund me the $150 upgrade I paid for the suite. It was the total run around for a week. Bogus phone numbers to call, Hang ups, Etc. I felt so scammed on this why would I possibly buy their timeshare. Still haven’t received my bonus points of 25k.

Does anyone know if the way you are able to book things online has changed recently?? I usually book random 4 night trips at the clubs in Florida, and suddenly it just shows absolutely nothing available at any of the Florida clubs-- even all throughout the year, which seems very unlikely. It gives me an option to "get notified" but thats it....does anyone know if something has changed???

Thanks in advance for any insight!

Recent buyer here (December 2025) at my presentation I was a hard no until the sales rep told me that I could use the RCI exchange to use points to were I wanted to go if Hilton did not provide. Specifically I told them that I would like to get as close to Duval Street in Key West and they pulled up the RCI Exchange and showed 2 properties that fit the bill. So I decided to buy in.

After getting home and getting my paperwork I have been going through the website and no properties show up on the map and when I type in Key West the properties that do show up come up as no availability without even indicating dates. I have a training session scheduled for a trip over July 4th and will bring it up then along with my paperwork where I specifically put that I was buying in for the option to get a place near Duval in Key West and if they can’t verify that it’s possible then I will attempt to get out of this thing. If anyone has any success stories with the exchange please lmk. Meanwhile maybe I will try and find Key West specific time shares…

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

Edit thanks for the replies and the PMs. I am not selling the timeshare at this time.

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?

I recently participated for a Timeshare Presentation in January 2026 in Orlando. 4 days and 3 nights, 200ish dollars, and 50k points.

Got a call from the Hilton 5 million Sweepstakes number (per caller ID). Needless to say I did not win the sweepstakes but offered me

4 days 3 nights

$246.38 (229 plus taxes)

$229 rebate after Presentation

$200 certificate to any Hilton Brand

15k points if I book (not stay) within 45days

Accepted on Principle

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 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?