Spend less, travel more … right?! If you like to make your holiday travel dollar stretch, then like us, you may discover yourself considering a trip package promotional offer. Know that these promotional trip plan companies are not at all equal.
After the pulled down of our current remain at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I simply got off the phone from attempting to schedule the remainder of our holiday plan with them (some time in Florida). Let’s simply say that will not be happening. We are just going to forget and consume the cost about it.
From here on out, we will be reserving holiday plans through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Undoubtedly, you have actually seen the Facebook sponsored posts. You will see that it is full of the most affordable trip packages to some of the most popular locations if you click over to their website. They have some seriously elegant looking stays all over the world at some crazy good costs.
Our first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was fantastic. Maybe the Dreams ruined us.
One quick note … We have actually just utilized BookVIP one time, at one luxury resort in Cancun. Logic tells me that not every resort vacation package is going to supply a comparable experience. It truly is all going to boil down to the research you put in.
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They do not advertise the real 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 pictures will expose the true identity of the property you are considering. There was plenty of info on the BookVIP site to assist us feel comfy with making our reservation.
You understand ahead of time if the dates you want to take a trip are offered. There is time to compare the restaurants and facilities. This is a big contrast to the marketing getaway plan sales calls I will talk about in the next section.
When you are ready to make your appointment with BookVIP, simply be prepared for a couple of extra resort costs and taxes. In our case, part of the extra charge was to cover ideas for the resort staff.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Cabo All Inclusive
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the very best. If this had been our first experience, we highly likely would not have taken part in another advertising deal. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our very first advertising resort stay, we started getting telephone call using getaway bundles to various locations. That is how we ended up with a getaway plan including our newest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple short remain in Florida and somewhere else.
These travel sales calls are always a high-pressure circumstance unless you just hang up. Say no enough times and they will keep dropping the cost to where it really sounds like a good offer. There isn’t much time to look into the vacation properties they are using.
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!). So we shot and purchased a plan. However utilizing it, that is an entire different story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to in fact use the getaway time. There is a lot of small print that makes travel planning very challenging and potentially a lot more pricey. They don’t reveal these details during the sales call.
IF YOU PURCHASE A TRIP BUNDLE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS, THIS IS WHAT YOU OUGHT TO BE PREPARED FOR …
You can just schedule your dates 45-90 days ahead of time. Okay, reasonable enough.
When you call to ask for your preferred dates, they require you to fill out a long kind needing all the information that they currently have. You then need to wait about a week to see if your dates are even available. Unless your itinerary will just consist of your remain at their resort, this makes planning the rest of your travel extremely inconvenient.
Planning inexpensive flights, or offered Airbnb stays in combination with your Premier Travel Resorts vacation plan is very hard. In our case, the Airbnb we wanted to remain at after our remain at the resort was booked by the time Premier Travel Resorts returned 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 thirty days apart. In our case, utilizing them on either end of a company journey we had planned was not allowed.
We utilized the Cancun portion of our trip plan, but we won’t be using the rest of it.
THE BAIT AND SWITCH CANCUN ‘ALL INCLUSIVE’ THROUGH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS
The room was unclean, the toilet was broken, the lights flickered, which is just the beginning. You see, they put us up, not in one of the high-end residential or commercial properties that they wished to sell us on, however rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the men at the good residential or commercial property informed us they called it. For real.
The one dining establishment that was consisted of in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you overlook the air conditioner leaking into our food) was really a great experience. They changed up the menu every night, featuring foods from various parts of Mexico. And extremely ready to help us with our Spanish.
Twice the shock of the distinction in the type of place we thought we would be staying, we made the most of it. We fulfilled some good people. Ate some fantastic food. Took some nice walks on the golf course. And picked up our rental automobile a couple days early to go off and check out the area.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts need that you participate in a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their discounted prices. No biggie. We feel like that is worth it.
Premier Travel Resorts, however, needs that you attend a promotional presentation throughout each stay. This is different from what we were told when they sold us the bundle.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY TIRADE