The Grand Vacation Club (GVC)

We owed with Sunterra/GVC/LSI for about 12 years before selling a couple of years ago, on the whole we were happy with our purchase and got to a good many places in the world we could otherwise not have visited.

However I would say when you come to sell you may not realise anything like the value feel they may be worth. But if you feel you have used them to their full potential then you may feel you have had your monies worth as we did, but the 2k we got was not what we expected to have at the end.

Finally the management fees were increasing year on year at an alarming rate and some resorts looked a bit 'frayed around the edges.

We just received our "free" holiday vouchers after a 2.5hr presentation. There are 3 options as follows (1) free accommodation plus 2 free flights & free hire car (2) free accom, buy one flight get one free, (3) free accom, book own flights. You need to state 3 different travel dates, 3 different airports (manchester, gatwick, luton or Glasgow) and 3 destinations (baleriacs, canaries, algarve). Also send £34.50 admin fee per person. They will tell you accom/destination about 30 days prior to travel, and then might offer you flights from Luton but say you can pay an extra fee to get the flights from Manchester (about £50 - £150 per extra flight). ...

All I can say is BEWARE! BEWARE! BEWARE! We paid $11,000.00 for 3,500 points. Well, 3,500 points is barely enough to get a 2-bedroom resort. The one we did get to stay at was all worn down and dirty. Other times when we wanted to plan a vacation, there was no availability. There are sooooooooo many rules - the one I particularly like is the one where if you don't roll over your points in time, YOU LOSE THEM! We got so sick of the bull crap that we sold our points for a mear $950.00. The sales people are very high pressure and basically won't let you out of the room until you buy - and they fill you with champagne after you agree so when you go to sign all the ...