Spend less, travel more … right?! If you like to make your holiday travel dollar stretch, then like us, you may discover yourself thinking about a trip plan marketing offer. Know that these promotional holiday plan companies are not at all equal.
After the let down of our recent remain at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I simply got off the phone from attempting to book the remainder of our vacation plan with them (a long time in Florida). Let’s simply state that will not be occurring. We are simply going to consume the cost and forget about it.
From here on out, we will be booking vacation plans through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Definitely, you’ve seen the Facebook sponsored posts. If you click over to their site, you will see that it has plenty of the least expensive vacation packages to some of the most popular locations. They have some seriously elegant looking stays all over the world at some crazy great prices.
Our very first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was incredible. Perhaps the Dreams ruined us.
One quick note … We have actually only used BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Reasoning informs me that not every resort getaway bundle is going to supply a comparable experience. It actually is all going to come down to the research you put in.
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Investigating the properties offered on BookVIP can be a little bit of a difficulty. They do not promote the actual name of the resorts. Instead, they use fake names. But if you actually wish to sleuth out the location you will be staying a little bit of investigative deal with Google to compare the pictures will reveal the true identity of the residential or commercial property you are thinking about. We didn’t bother going that far. There was plenty of information on the BookVIP site to help us feel comfy with making our appointment.
What we enjoy about reserving with BookVIP? You are on your own schedule. No sales calls, no pressure. Book when you have actually done your research and you are ready. You will know what you are getting. If the dates you desire to take a trip are offered, you understand ahead of time. There is time to compare the facilities and restaurants. This is a big contrast to the marketing trip bundle sales calls I will discuss in the next area.
Simply be prepared for a few extra resort fees and taxes when you are all set to make your reservation with BookVIP. Our $599 for 5 days/4 nights at a Cancun all inclusive expense around $720 after everything was said and done. In our case, part of the added fee was to cover ideas for the resort staff. After the experience we had, we discovered this to be well worth it.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip 975 North Miami Beach
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the best. If this had actually been our very first experience, we most likely would not have taken part in another marketing offer. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first marketing resort stay, we began getting phone calls offering holiday packages to different destinations. That is how we ended up with a trip plan including our most recent Cancun all inclusive plus a couple short remain in Florida and somewhere else.
These travel sales calls are constantly a high-pressure situation unless you just hang up. Say no sufficient times and they will keep dropping the cost to where it in fact sounds like an excellent offer. There isn’t much time to investigate the trip properties they are offering.
They drew us in with a stay in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the proximity to Belize) and some time in Florida (hello, sailboat shopping!). So we shot and purchased a bundle. However using it, that is a whole different story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it easy to in fact use the getaway time. There is a lot of small print that makes travel preparation very challenging and possibly a lot more costly. They don’t reveal these information during the sales call.
IF YOU PURCHASE A GETAWAY PACKAGE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS, THIS IS WHAT YOU OUGHT TO BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only reserve your dates 45-90 days ahead of time. Okay, fair enough.
However, when you call to ask for your preferred dates, they need you to fill out a long kind requiring all the info that they currently have. You then have to wait about a week to see if your dates are even readily available. Unless your travel plans will only include your remain at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel very inconvenient.
Preparation affordable flights, or offered Airbnb stays in combination with your Premier Travel Resorts vacation bundle is really hard. In our case, the Airbnb we wished to remain at after our stay at the resort was scheduled by the time Premier Travel Resorts got back to us.
Our plan included a stay in Orlando and a remain in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts needs that those stays be back to back or 30 days apart. In our case, using them on either end of a business journey we had actually prepared was not allowed.
We utilized the Cancun portion of our holiday plan, however 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 luxury homes that they wanted to offer us on, however rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the people at the good property told us they called it.
The one dining establishment that was consisted of in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you overlook the air conditioner leaking into our food) was in fact a good experience. They changed up the menu every night, including foods from different parts of Mexico. And very willing to help us with our Spanish.
As soon as over the shock of the difference in the kind of location we believed we would be staying, we made the most of it. And picked up our rental automobile a couple days early to go off and check out the location.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts need that you go to a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their reduced rates. No biggie. We seem like that is worth it.
Premier Travel Resorts, however, requires that you attend a promotional presentation throughout each stay. This is various from what we were informed when they sold us the package. A two-hour sales pitch when you are staying someplace for just 2 nights is a substantial chunk of time. They sold us 4 various stays, that indicates up to 8 hours of moderately high-pressure sales! No thanks.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY TIRADE