posted 10-22-2004 18:11            

Also there's a 6 night max on bookings using club points so 6 nights in a cat 4 hotel would be $49 booking fee plus 7830 club points. I don't think it's worth it.

posted 10-23-2004 15:25               

Convert your next year's HGVC Clubpoints to HHonors Points this year, paying $69 conversion fee. These points don't expire as the HGVC Cubpoints.

Choose the Hilton hotel that you want to stay at, look at the category assgined to that hotel and go to the Hhonors website to look up the reward certificate chart. Or, if you prefer, just click thru the screen (pretending that you are making the reservation), you will evetualy see how many thousand points you need to "pay' for that stay.

I found the 6-free nights certificate is the best deal as far as points per night go.

Category 6 requires certficate GLONP2 = 175,000 HhonorPoints
If you stay 5 nights at the Category 6 hotel, it would cost 40,000 x 5 = 200,00 HhonorPoints.

Cat. 1 - 5 requires certficate GLONP = 150,000 HhonorPoints.

posted 10-23-2004 20:38               

I go to the HH site and put in my city area of interest and then clock on each hotel - then click under "Hilton Honors" and that will give the information of the "level" - required needed ponts, BUT it will also tell whether or not there are some dates for POint Stretchers. Then you call HGVC (not Hilton) and request a certificate for that number of points and then make your reservation at the hotel of choice (with those particular point stretcher dates.) The certificate is good for a year and even though you may need to cancel your reservation (as we just had to for a hotel in St Louis we had reserved for point strecther dates ) we can use the certificate again (until the certificate expires) at some other hotel with the eligible pt strecher.

It does take some searching.

Also, an Hilton person (VC) found other hotels in the area (in another case for me in Atlanta) with point strechers for my needed date that I had not found on the Web site. So you may also wnat to call.

Even though the "exchange" of points is not always the best, we do use the Hilton hotels for the single stays we need to make when traveling where there are no timeshares to use. After all, we have already paid for them and that does reduce the further cash outlay.

We even used them for a convention in Baltimore when it would have been over $120/day and I found a point strecher hotel there for the dates!

posted 12-18-2004 07:01               

I though ALL HGVC members were automatically Silver status. Well at least we are and they just gave it to us.