Invest less, travel more … right?! If you like to make your vacation travel dollar stretch, then like us, you might find yourself considering a getaway package promotional offer. Know that these marketing getaway plan business are not at all equivalent.
After the pulled down of our current remain at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I just got off the phone from trying to reserve the rest of our getaway bundle with them (some time in Florida). Let’s just state that will not be taking place. We are just going to forget and consume the expense about it.
From here on out, we will be reserving vacation packages through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Undoubtedly, you’ve seen the Facebook sponsored posts. You will see that it is full of the least expensive holiday bundles to some of the most popular destinations if you click over to their website. They have some seriously glamorous looking stays all over the world at some insane excellent rates.
Our first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was fantastic. Perhaps the Dreams spoiled us.
One fast note … We have actually just utilized BookVIP one time, at one luxury resort in Cancun. Reasoning tells me that not every resort trip plan is going to supply a comparable experience. It truly is all going to come down to the research study you put in.
Is booking Very Important Person a timeshare?
They do not promote the actual name of the resorts. If you actually want to sleuth out the location you will be remaining a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the images will reveal the true identity of the property you are thinking about. There was plenty of information on the BookVIP site to help us feel comfy with making our booking.
What we enjoy about reserving with BookVIP? You are on your own schedule. No sales calls, no pressure. Book when you have done your research study and you are ready. You will understand what you are getting. If the dates you want to travel are available, you understand ahead of time. There is time to compare the features and dining establishments. This is a huge contrast to the advertising getaway bundle sales calls I will discuss in the next area.
When you are prepared to make your reservation with BookVIP, just be prepared for a couple of additional resort charges and taxes. In our case, part of the additional charge was to cover tips for the resort personnel.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Affliate
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the very best. If this had been our very first experience, we highly likely would not have participated in another advertising offer. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our very first advertising resort stay, we began getting call offering trip packages to numerous locations. That is how we ended up with a holiday plan including our newest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple short stays in Florida and somewhere else.
These travel sales calls are constantly a high-pressure situation unless you simply hang up. State no enough times and they will keep dropping the cost to where it actually sounds like a great deal. There isn’t much time to research the getaway residential or commercial properties they are providing.
They drew us in with a stay in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the proximity to Belize) and a long time in Florida (hi, sailboat shopping!). So we shot and purchased a package. However utilizing it, that is an entire various story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to really use the vacation time. There is a great deal of fine print that makes travel planning really tough and potentially a lot more expensive. They don’t expose these information during the sales call.
THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only just your dates 45-90 days ahead of time if YOU ACQUIRE A GETAWAY BUNDLE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS. Okay, fair enough.
Nevertheless, when you contact us to ask for your favored dates, they require you to complete a long kind needing all the details that they already have. You then have to wait about a week to see if your dates are even readily available. Unless your itinerary will only consist of your stay at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel very bothersome.
Preparation economical flights, or readily available Airbnb remains in combination with your Premier Travel Resorts vacation bundle is extremely difficult. In our case, the Airbnb we wished to remain at after our stay at the resort was reserved by the time Premier Travel Resorts got back to us.
Our bundle consisted of a stay in Orlando and a stay in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts requires that those stays be back to back or thirty days 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 getaway bundle, however we won’t be utilizing 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 properties that they wanted to sell us on, however rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the people at the good residential or commercial property told us they called it.
The one dining establishment that was consisted of in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you neglect the air conditioner dripping into our food) was in fact a nice experience. They changed up the menu every night, including foods from various parts of Mexico. And extremely ready to help us with our Spanish.
Once over the shock of the distinction in the kind of location we believed we would be staying, we made the most of it. We fulfilled some great people. Ate some fantastic food. Took some great strolls on the golf course. And got our rental cars and truck a couple days early to go off and check out the location.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts require that you participate in a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their reduced costs. No biggie. We feel like that is worth it.
Premier Travel Resorts, however, requires that you go to an advertising discussion during each stay. When they sold us the plan, this is different from what we were told. A two-hour sales pitch when you are staying somewhere for just 2 nights is a huge piece of time. They offered us four different stays, that suggests as much as 8 hours of reasonably high-pressure sales! No thanks.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY RANT