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Find a Location

WHV Resort Group Inc has 9 locations, listed below.

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    • WHV Resort Group Inc

      300 Rancheros Dr Ste 310 San Marcos, CA 92069-2969

      BBB Accredited Business
    • WHV Resort Group Inc

      8860 Lawrence Welk Dr Escondido, CA 92026-6403

      BBB Accredited Business
    • WHV Resort Group Inc

      34565 Cathedral Canyon Dr Cathedral City, CA 92234

    • Welk Resort Hotel

      1984 State Highway 165 Branson, MO 65616-8936

    • Welk Resorts

      970 Northstar Dr Truckee, CA 96161-4204

    Business ProfileforWHV Resort Group Inc

    Vacation Timeshare
    Multi Location Business
    BBB accredited business

    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    1.04/5stars

    Average of 95 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    331 complaints closed in last 3 years

    126 complaints closed in last 12 months

    BBB Rating & Accreditation

    Accredited Since: 10/1/2010

    Years in Business: 36

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    Overview

    This business offers vacation ownership and timeshare services.

    Business Details

    This is a multi-location business.

    Find a Location

    WHV Resort Group Inc has 9 locations, listed below.

    *This company may be headquartered in or have additional locations in another country. Please click on the country abbreviation in the search box below to change to a different country location.

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      • WHV Resort Group Inc

        300 Rancheros Dr Ste 310 San Marcos, CA 92069-2969

        BBB Accredited Business
      • WHV Resort Group Inc

        8860 Lawrence Welk Dr Escondido, CA 92026-6403

        BBB Accredited Business
      • WHV Resort Group Inc

        34565 Cathedral Canyon Dr Cathedral City, CA 92234

      • Welk Resort Hotel

        1984 State Highway 165 Branson, MO 65616-8936

      • Welk Resorts

        970 Northstar Dr Truckee, CA 96161-4204

      Location of This Business
      300 Rancheros Dr Ste 310, San Marcos, CA 92069-2969
      BBB File Opened:
      12/1/1987
      Years in Business:
      36
      Business Started:
      12/1/1987
      Business Incorporated:
      8/5/1999
      Accredited Since:
      10/1/2010
      Licensing Information:
      This business is in an industry that may require professional licensing, bonding or registration. BBB encourages you to check with the appropriate agency to be certain any requirements are currently being met.
      Type of Entity:
      Corporation
      Alternate Business Name
      • Welk Resort Group
      • Hyatt Vacation Ownership
      Business Management
      • Mr. Jon Fredricks, President
      • Ms. Carianne McLellan, Corporate Relations
      • Ms. Helen Denton, Director of Market Management
      • Mr. Hutch Farrell, Director of Customer Relations
      Contact Information

      Principal

      • Mr. Jon Fredricks, President
      • Mr. Hutch Farrell, Director of Customer Relations

      Customer Contact

      • Mr. Hutch Farrell, Director of Customer Relations
      Additional Contact Information

      Fax Numbers

      • (760) 749-2186
        Primary Fax

      Phone Numbers

      Email Addresses

      Industry Tip

      BBB Tip: Timeshares

      Customer Complaints

      331 Customer Complaints

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      Most Recent Customer Complaint

      05/30/2024

      Complaint Type:
      Service or Repair Issues
      Status:
      Answered
      BBB-We urgently require your assistance to cancel our timeshare with Hyatt. Since purchasing it, our circumstances have taken a toll on our home life. Financially, we are struggling due to my fixed income and the increasing costs of essentials like food, medical care, and housing, along with day-to-day expenses. Both my wife and I are dealing with health issues - I am battling cancer, heart problems, and diabetes, while my wife is coping with circulatory problems, diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis. Adding to our difficulties, we are unable to use the timeshare as we please. We are exhausted by the false promises made about booking stays at ****** Resort. Our only wish is to free ourselves from this predicament. Can you help us?
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      Customer Reviews

      95 Customer Reviews

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      Most Recent Customer Review

      Thomas J

      1 star

      05/23/2024

      For over a decade, my wife and I have owned a timeshare with **** Resorts. We have paid everything required by the contract. **** Resorts has not provided what they promised in the sales presentation. We cant withhold payment of maintenance payments until **** Resorts fulfills their part of the agreement, because **** Resorts says they will cancel our contract through foreclosure. The foreclosure would destroy our credit for a long time. In 2020, the Attorney General of California and the District Attorney of San Diego County sued **** Resorts in ********** Superior Court for misrepresentations and deceptive advertising. The Court issued a judgement against **** Resorts in September of 2020 requiring them to respond to owners claims of deceptive advertising and misrepresentations. My wife and I had two contracts eligible for a claim under the Judgement. The judgement required **** Resorts to provide notice that contract owners could make a claim. We never received notice and they cant prove they did. We know from the reminder letters and invoices that they know how to get a notice to us. In April 2021 **** Resorts was acquired by Marriot Vacation Club. At this point we still did not know about the judgement and no one at the rebranded Hyatt Vacation Club mentioned filing a claim when we complained about our unresolved differences with **** Resorts. In 2023, we emailed **** Services at Hyatt Vacation Club that we wanted to exit our contract because of the financial burden of a timeshare contract we could not use. **** services emailed us back that there was no exit option available from Hyatt Vacation Club, and none was planned. When we tried to sell our timeshare, it still didnt sell because people didnt want to pay the rapidly increasing maintenance payments which are higher than the cost of reservations on line.

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