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I’ve sat through those before. Usually let them know upfront that I’m not interested in buying and just take a hard stance on no. Whatever you do, don’t buy
I did this earlier this year. Did they specify if it’s the Lagunamar or the other Westin property?
I went to the one at the non-Lagunamar property. I actually didn’t have to go to the timeshare presentation to get the discounted rate, but chose to do it anyway since it came with a discount off all food at the hotel as well as a good amount of Starpoints. They put you in a meh room, but then when you go to the presentation they show you the nice, renovated room you could have if you buy in and stay there in the future. They tried a few different tactics to get us to bite, but took no for an answer pretty well. It was honestly interesting to see the different tactics and tricks they use. My SO and I caught all of them and politely spun it around on them and ended up showing that based on our situation, timeshares actually wouldn’t make sense for us.
They are super super high pressure and some will scream and might make people cry. At your risk.
It's the non-Lagunamar property unfortunately. On this one, attendance of the presentation is required, though it comes with 15K points.
Try and see if you can get more points. You should be assigned a concierge person, and without even asking they increased my offer from 5000 starpoints to 11500 starpoints (once we sat down with them when we got there)
There’s no strings attached to those offers but those sales guys are very persistent. Go in with a stance.