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 deal. Know that these marketing holiday plan business are not at all equal.
After the pulled down of our recent remain at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I just got off the phone from attempting to reserve the remainder of our trip package with them (some time in Florida). Let’s simply state that will not be taking place. We are just going to forget and eat the expense 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 least expensive getaway bundles to some of the most popular destinations.
Our first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was remarkable. Possibly the Dreams spoiled us. This place was off-hook. It was whatever we had actually wished for and after that some.
One fast note … We have just utilized BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Reasoning tells me that not every resort vacation bundle 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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They don’t promote the actual name of the resorts. If you really want to sleuth out the location you will be staying a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the photos will expose the real identity of the property you are thinking about. There was plenty of information on the BookVIP website to assist us feel comfy with making our reservation.
What we like about scheduling with BookVIP? You are on your own schedule. No sales calls, no pressure. Schedule when you have actually done your research study and you are ready. You will know what you are getting. You know ahead of time if the dates you want to take a trip are available. There is time to compare the features and dining establishments. This is a big contrast to the promotional holiday plan sales calls I will discuss in the next section.
When you are ready to make your booking with BookVIP, simply be gotten ready for a couple of additional resort costs and taxes. Our $599 for 5 days/4 nights at a Cancun all inclusive expense around $720 after whatever was said and done. In our case, part of the added fee was to cover suggestions for the resort personnel. After the experience we had, we discovered this to be well worth it.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Busch Garden
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the best. We really likely would not have gotten involved in another promotional deal if this had been our first experience. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our very first promotional resort stay, we started getting phone calls using trip bundles to numerous locations. That is how we wound up with a vacation package including our newest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple brief stays in Florida and somewhere else.
These travel sales calls are constantly a high-pressure scenario unless you simply hang up. State no enough times and they will keep dropping the cost to where it really sounds like a great deal. There isn’t much time to investigate the getaway properties they are providing.
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 (hey there, sailboat shopping!). We pulled the trigger and bought a bundle. Using it, that is an entire various story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to actually utilize the trip time. There is a lot of small print that makes travel planning very hard and potentially a lot more expensive. They do not reveal these details during the sales call.
IF YOU ACQUIRE A VACATION BUNDLE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS, THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR …
You can just book your dates 45-90 days ahead of time. Okay, fair enough.
When you call to ask for your preferred dates, they need you to fill out a long kind requiring all the information that they currently 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 really inconvenient.
Planning budget-friendly 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 stay at after our remain at the resort was reserved by the time Premier Travel Resorts got back to us.
Our package consisted of a stay in Orlando and a remain in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts requires that those stays be back to back or one month apart. So, in our case, using them on either end of a company journey we had prepared was not permitted.
We utilized the Cancun part of our holiday plan, but we will not be using the rest of it.
THE BAIT AND SWITCH CANCUN ‘ALL INCLUSIVE’ THROUGH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS
The room was filthy, the toilet was cracked, 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, however rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the people at the great home told us they called it. For real.
Now, to be reasonable, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one dining establishment that was consisted of in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you neglect the a/c leaking into our food) was in fact a nice experience. They altered the menu every night, including foods from different parts of Mexico. And the personnel was amazing. Very friendly and accommodating. And extremely ready to assist us with our Spanish.
Once over the shock of the difference in the kind of location we believed we would be remaining, we made the most of it. We fulfilled some good people. Consumed some great food. Took some good walks on the golf course. And got our rental vehicle a couple days early to go off and explore the area.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts require that you go to a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their discounted costs. No biggie. We seem like that deserves it.
Premier Travel Resorts, however, requires that you participate in a marketing discussion throughout each stay. This is different from what we were informed when they offered us the bundle.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY RANT