We are bargain hunters. Spend less, take a trip more … right?!Bookvip Breathless Punta Cana… If you like to make your vacation travel dollar stretch, then like us, you may find yourself considering a getaway plan marketing deal. You ought to be prepared. Know that these promotional getaway package business are not at all equivalent.
After the let down of our current stay at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I just got off the phone from trying to reserve the rest of our getaway package with them (some time in Florida). Let’s simply say that will not be occurring. We are just going to forget and eat the cost about it.
From here on out, we will be booking getaway plans through BookVIP. If you click over to their site, you will see that it is complete of the cheapest trip plans to some of the most popular destinations.
Our very first all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was fantastic. Possibly the Dreams ruined us. This place was off-hook. It was whatever we had actually expected and after that some.
One fast note … We have actually just used BookVIP one time, at one luxury resort in Cancun. Reasoning tells me that not every resort holiday plan is going to provide a similar experience. It really is all going to boil down to the research study you put in.
Is booking Very Important Person a timeshare?
They don’t market the real name of the resorts. If you actually want to sleuth out the place you will be staying a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the images will reveal the real identity of the residential or commercial property you are thinking about. There was plenty of information on the BookVIP site to help us feel comfy with making our appointment.
What we enjoy about booking with BookVIP? You are on your own schedule. No sales calls, no pressure. Schedule when you have done your research and you are ready. You will understand what you are getting. You understand ahead of time if the dates you wish to take a trip are available. There is time to compare the amenities and restaurants. This is a huge contrast to the marketing getaway bundle sales calls I will discuss in the next area.
Just be prepared for a couple of additional resort costs 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 surcharge was to cover suggestions for the resort personnel. After the experience we had, we found this to be well worth it.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Breathless Punta Cana
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 participated in another advertising offer. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our very first promotional resort stay, we started getting call offering holiday bundles to various locations. That is how we ended up with a getaway plan including our latest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple brief remain in Florida and elsewhere.
These travel sales calls are always a high-pressure situation unless you simply hang up. State no enough times and they will keep dropping the cost to where it in fact sounds like an excellent offer. There isn’t much time to look into the trip properties they are offering.
They drew us in with a remain in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the distance to Belize) and a long time in Florida (hello, sailboat shopping!). We pulled the trigger and bought a plan. Using it, that is an entire various story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it easy to really utilize the vacation time. There is a lot of small print that makes travel preparation very difficult and potentially a lot more expensive. They don’t reveal these information throughout the sales call.
THIS IS WHAT YOU OUGHT TO BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only reserve schedule dates 45-90 days ahead of time if YOU PURCHASE A TRIP PACKAGE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS. Okay, reasonable enough.
However, when you contact us to ask for your favored dates, they require you to fill out a long form requiring all the details that they currently have. You then have to wait about a week to see if your dates are even available. Unless your itinerary will just include your remain at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel really troublesome.
Preparation budget friendly flights, or available Airbnb stays in conjunction with your Premier Travel Resorts trip plan is extremely tough. In our case, the Airbnb we wanted to remain at after our remain at the resort was booked by the time Premier Travel Resorts got back to us.
Our plan included a remain in Orlando and a remain in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts requires that those stays be back to back or 30 days apart. So, in our case, utilizing them on either end of a business trip we had actually planned was not permitted.
We utilized the Cancun part of our holiday plan, but 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 high-end residential or commercial properties that they desired to sell us on, however rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the guys at the great home informed us they called it.
Now, to be fair, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one restaurant that was included in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you neglect the air conditioning system dripping into our food) was actually a great experience. They altered the menu every night, featuring foods from various parts of Mexico. And the staff was amazing. Very friendly and accommodating. And extremely happy to help us with our Spanish.
Once over the shock of the distinction in the kind of place we thought we would be remaining, we made the many of it. And picked up our rental cars and truck a couple days early to go off and check out the area.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts need that you attend a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their reduced prices. No biggie. We seem like that deserves it.
Premier Travel Resorts, however, requires that you participate in a promotional discussion during each stay. When they offered us the package, this is various from what we were informed. When you are staying someplace for only two nights is a substantial chunk of time, a two-hour sales pitch. They offered us 4 various stays, that means approximately eight hours of reasonably high-pressure sales! No thanks.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY RANT