Originally Posted by
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I got the same offer described above: $798 for 5 nights. I'm not planning a trip to Hawaii, but could take a few days off work for this. It seems like a good value - you can't get a decent room in HI for that price. And I could always use a beach vacation.
So should I book and make a trip out of it? I could pay $498 as a deposit and try and find an airfare sale. What do those of you who have stayed there think? Is there a lot of sales pressure? I'm not going to buy a time share, and I'd rather not spend my time convincing them of that.
I got the offer back in February, and just returned from the trip a couple of weeks ago. It is great value, and there were no "catches". it was a straight forward $185 off of an Avis rental, no matter what you rented or for how long. The resort itself is great, not one complaint. They only asked once if we would like to do a 90 minute timeshare presentation for 7000 points, which we decided to do. The presentation was great - they noticed we had two young kids and I was already a starwood member, so skipped over the complete presentation, showed us a room, told us prices, and we were gone in 30 minutes.
I was also upgraded to an ocean view room at check in as well!