Spend less, travel more … right?! If you like to make your getaway travel dollar stretch, then like us, you might discover yourself thinking about a getaway package promotional offer. Know that these marketing vacation 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 just left the phone from trying to schedule the rest of our trip plan with them (some time in Florida). Let’s simply state that will not be taking place. We are simply going to forget and consume the cost about it.
From here on out, we will be reserving holiday bundles through BookVIP. If you click over to their site, you will see that it is full of the most inexpensive trip packages to some of the most popular destinations.
Our first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was fantastic. Maybe the Dreams ruined us.
One fast note … We have only used BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Reasoning informs me that not every resort trip package is going to provide a similar experience. It really is all going to boil down to the research study you put in.
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Investigating the properties used on BookVIP can be a bit of an obstacle. They don’t promote the real name of the resorts. Instead, they use phony names. But if you truly want to sleuth out the location you will be remaining a little bit of investigative deal with Google to compare the photos will reveal the true identity of the home you are considering. We didn’t trouble going that far. There was lots of details on the BookVIP website to help us feel comfortable with making our appointment.
What we enjoy about scheduling with BookVIP? You are on your own schedule. No sales calls, no pressure. When you have done your research study and you are ready, book. You will know what you are getting. If the dates you desire to take a trip are available, you know ahead of time. There is time to compare the amenities and restaurants. This is a big contrast to the promotional getaway plan sales calls I will discuss in the next area.
Simply be prepared for a few additional resort charges and taxes when you are prepared to make your appointment with BookVIP. Our $599 for 5 days/4 nights at a Cancun all inclusive cost around $720 after everything was stated and done. In our case, part of the added fee was to cover pointers for the resort staff. After the experience we had, we found this to be well worth it.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Birth Certifiate
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the best. If this had been our very first experience, we highly likely would not have actually participated in another marketing deal. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first promotional resort stay, we started getting telephone call providing trip plans to different destinations. That is how we ended up with a holiday plan including our latest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple brief remain in Florida and somewhere else.
These travel sales calls are always a high-pressure situation unless you simply hang up. Say no enough times and they will keep dropping the rate to where it actually seems like a good deal. If they capture your interest and you choose to acquire, it is needed that you do so before completion of the phone call. There isn’t much time to look into the trip residential or commercial properties they are offering. You may have a few seconds to rapidly pull up some pictures however that has to do with it. A picture deserves a thousand words, but not worth nearly as much as having the ability to check out a couple of reviews.
They drew us in with a stay in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the distance to Belize) and some time in Florida (hi, sailboat shopping!). We pulled the trigger and bought a bundle. However using it, that is a whole different story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to actually use the trip time. There is a lot of small print that makes travel planning extremely tough and potentially a lot more costly. They do not reveal these details throughout the sales call.
THIS IS WHAT YOU MUST BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only just your dates 45-90 days ahead of time if YOU PURCHASE A GETAWAY PACKAGE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS. Okay, reasonable enough.
When you call to ask for your preferred dates, they require you to fill out a long type requiring all the details 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 just consist of your remain at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel really troublesome.
Preparation cost effective flights, or offered Airbnb remains in conjunction with your Premier Travel Resorts vacation plan is very tough. In our case, the Airbnb we wished to remain at after our remain at the resort was scheduled by the time Premier Travel Resorts got back to us.
Our package consisted of a remain in Orlando and a stay in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts needs that those stays be back to back or thirty days apart. In our case, utilizing them on either end of a service journey we had planned was not enabled.
We utilized the Cancun portion of our holiday plan, however we won’t be utilizing the rest of it.
THE BAIT AND SWITCH CANCUN ‘ALL INCLUSIVE’ THROUGH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS
The room was filthy, the toilet was chipped, the lights flickered, which is simply the beginning. You see, they put us up, not in one of the luxury residential or commercial properties that they wished to offer us on, but rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the men at the nice property informed us they called it. Genuine.
The one dining establishment that was consisted of in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you overlook the air conditioner leaking into our food) was actually a good experience. They changed up the menu every night, including foods from different parts of Mexico. And extremely ready to assist us with our Spanish.
As soon as over the shock of the distinction in the kind of place we believed we would be remaining, we made the most of it. And picked up our rental car 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 prices. No biggie. We seem like that deserves it.
Premier Travel Resorts, nevertheless, needs that you participate in a marketing presentation throughout each stay. When they sold us the package, this is different from what we were told. When you are remaining someplace for only two nights is a substantial chunk of time, a two-hour sales pitch. They sold us four various stays, that means approximately eight hours of moderately high-pressure sales! No thanks.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY RANT