We are bargain hunters. Invest less, take a trip more … right?!Book Vip Family… If you like to make your getaway travel dollar stretch, then like us, you may find yourself considering a vacation bundle marketing offer. You should be prepared. Know that these advertising vacation plan business are not equivalent.
After the let down of our current stay at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I simply got off the phone from trying to reserve the remainder of our vacation plan with them (a long time in Florida). Let’s just state that will not be occurring. We are just going to consume the expense and forget about it.
From here on out, we will be scheduling trip packages through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Surely, you’ve seen the Facebook sponsored posts. You will see that it is complete of the most affordable getaway plans to some of the most popular locations if you click over to their website. They have some seriously glamorous looking stays all over the world at some crazy great prices.
Our very first all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was amazing. Perhaps the Dreams spoiled us. This place was off-hook. It was whatever we had actually wished for and then some.
One quick note … We have only used BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Reasoning tells me that not every resort holiday plan is going to supply a comparable experience. It really is all going to boil down to the research study you put in.
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Researching the homes used on BookVIP can be a little a challenge. They do not promote the real name of the resorts. Rather, they utilize phony names. However if you truly want to sleuth out the place you will be remaining a little bit of investigative work on Google to compare the images will reveal the true identity of the property you are considering. We didn’t bother going that far. There was a lot of info on the BookVIP website to assist us feel comfortable with making our booking.
What we enjoy about booking with BookVIP? You are on your own schedule. No sales calls, no pressure. When you have actually done your research and you are all set, book. You will know what you are getting. If the dates you want to travel are readily available, you understand ahead of time. There is time to compare the restaurants and facilities. This is a big contrast to the advertising getaway bundle sales calls I will discuss in the next area.
Simply be prepared for a few additional resort fees and taxes when you are ready to make your booking with BookVIP. Our $599 for 5 days/4 nights at a Cancun all inclusive expense around $720 after whatever was stated and done. In our case, part of the additional charge was to cover tips for the resort staff. After the experience we had, we discovered this to be well worth it.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Book Vip Family
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the very best. If this had actually been our first experience, we highly likely would not have participated in another advertising deal. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first marketing resort stay, we started getting phone calls providing trip packages to numerous destinations. That is how we ended up with a trip plan including our latest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple brief stays in Florida and in other places.
These travel sales calls are constantly a high-pressure circumstance unless you simply hang up. Say no sufficient times and they will keep dropping the price to where it really sounds like a good deal. It is needed that you do so before the end of the phone call if they capture your interest and you decide to buy. There isn’t much time to research the getaway residential or commercial properties they are using. You might have a few seconds to rapidly pull up some pictures however that is about it. A picture is worth a thousand words, but not worth almost as much as being able to read a couple of reviews.
They drew us in with a remain in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the proximity to Belize) and some time in Florida (hi, sailboat shopping!). So we pulled the trigger and purchased a plan. Using it, that is an entire various story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to actually utilize the holiday time. There is a great deal of small print that makes travel preparation really challenging and possibly a lot more expensive. They do not expose these details during the sales call.
THIS IS WHAT YOU OUGHT TO BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only reserve book dates 45-90 days ahead of time if YOU BUY A GETAWAY BUNDLE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS. Okay, reasonable enough.
When you call to ask for your preferred dates, they need you to fill out a long form needing all the information that they already have. You then need to wait about a week to see if your dates are even offered. Unless your itinerary will just include your stay at their resort, this makes planning the rest of your travel extremely bothersome.
Preparation budget-friendly flights, or available Airbnb remains in combination with your Premier Travel Resorts vacation plan is very difficult. In our case, the Airbnb we wished to remain at after our remain at the resort was booked by the time Premier Travel Resorts returned to us.
Our bundle consisted of a remain in Orlando and a stay in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts needs that those stays be back to back or one month apart. So, in our case, utilizing them on either end of a company journey we had prepared was not allowed.
We used the Cancun part of our trip bundle, but we will not be using the rest of it.
THE BAIT AND SWITCH CANCUN ‘ALL INCLUSIVE’ THROUGH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS
You see, they put us up, not in one of the high-end properties that they desired to sell us on, but rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the guys at the good residential or commercial property told us they called it.
Now, to be fair, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one restaurant that was consisted of in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you overlook the a/c dripping into our food) was actually a great experience. They changed up the menu every night, including foods from different parts of Mexico. And the personnel was incredible. Really friendly and accommodating. And extremely going to help us with our Spanish.
When over the shock of the difference in the kind of location we believed we would be staying, we made the many of it. And selected up our rental automobile a couple days early to go off and explore the area.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts require that you participate in a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their reduced prices. No biggie. We seem like that is worth it.
Premier Travel Resorts, nevertheless, requires that you attend a promotional discussion throughout each stay. This is different from what we were informed when they offered us the package.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY RANT