Originally Posted by Friendly Traveling Deathmerchant

The most important thing to know about staying at HGV:

TAKE. YOUR. PHONE. NUMBER. OFF. YOUR. PROFILE.




Seriously, I stayed at HGV in Vegas years back, and a month later my pretty-darn-private cell phone number started lighting up with tons of calls from Vegas timeshares (Hilton and others). I don't give my cell number out to almost anyone, so pretty easy to track back that this happened because a long time ago I had this number on my Hilton profile and stayed at HGV Vegas. Deleted it and went with a "555-5555" type number. Took a lot of call blocking, "Please add me to your do-not-call list" requests, but I've pretty much gotten rid of the sharks. This took quite a while to set in, at least a year.

Other than this, they're just hotels that also happen to sell timeshare arrangements. I love the Elara, had a good stay down in Orlando by Sea World, I'm sure some others. Usually bigger rooms, apartment style are available. Good for family stays.

TDM