We are bargain hunters. Invest less, travel more … right?!Bookvip Cabo Palace… If you like to make your vacation travel dollar stretch, then like us, you may find yourself considering a getaway plan advertising offer. But you should be prepared. Know that these marketing trip package companies are not 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 trying to reserve the remainder of our trip package with them (some time in Florida). Let’s just state that will not be happening. We are just going to forget and consume the cost about it.
From here on out, we will be booking vacation plans through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Definitely, you have actually seen the Facebook sponsored posts. If you click over to their site, you will see that it is full of the most affordable vacation plans to some of the most popular locations. They have some seriously elegant looking stays all over the world at some insane great costs.
Our first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was incredible. Perhaps the Dreams spoiled us.
One fast note … We have actually just used BookVIP one time, at one luxury resort in Cancun. Logic tells me that not every resort trip package is going to provide a similar experience. It really is all going to come down to the research you put in.
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Looking into the residential or commercial properties provided on BookVIP can be a bit of an obstacle. They don’t market the actual name of the resorts. Instead, they utilize fake names. If you actually desire to sleuth out the location you will be remaining a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the pictures will expose the real identity of the residential or commercial property you are considering. We didn’t trouble going that far. There was plenty of info on the BookVIP site to assist us feel comfortable with making our booking.
You understand ahead of time if the dates you desire to take a trip are available. There is time to compare the restaurants and amenities. This is a big contrast to the promotional getaway bundle sales calls I will talk about in the next section.
When you are prepared to make your appointment with BookVIP, just be prepared for a few additional resort costs and taxes. In our case, part of the additional charge was to cover pointers for the resort personnel.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Cabo Palace
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 most likely would not have participated in another marketing deal. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first advertising resort stay, we started getting telephone call offering trip packages to numerous locations. That is how we wound up with a vacation package 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 scenario unless you just hang up. State no sufficient times and they will keep dropping the rate to where it in fact sounds like a good offer. There isn’t much time to investigate the holiday homes 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 (hello, sailboat shopping!). So we shot and bought a plan. Utilizing it, that is an entire different story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it easy to in fact utilize the vacation time. There is a great deal of fine print that makes travel preparation really tough and potentially a lot more pricey. They don’t expose these details throughout the sales call.
THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only reserve schedule dates 45-90 days ahead of time if YOU PURCHASE A VACATION BUNDLE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS. Okay, fair enough.
When you call to ask for your preferred dates, they require you to fill out a long type needing all the details that they already have. You then have to wait about a week to see if your dates are even available. Unless your travel plans will only include your remain at their resort, this makes planning the rest of your travel really troublesome.
Preparation budget friendly flights, or readily available Airbnb stays in conjunction with your Premier Travel Resorts getaway package is really tough. In our case, the Airbnb we wished to stay at after our stay at the resort was booked by the time Premier Travel Resorts returned to us.
Our bundle included a stay in Orlando and a remain in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts requires that those stays be back to back or thirty days apart. In our case, using them on either end of a business trip we had actually prepared was not allowed.
We utilized the Cancun part 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, and that is simply the start. You see, they put us up, not in one of the luxury residential or commercial properties that they wished to sell us on, however rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the guys at the good residential or commercial property informed us they called it. Genuine.
Now, to be reasonable, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one dining establishment that was included in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you ignore the ac system dripping into our food) was really a good experience. They altered the menu every night, featuring foods from various parts of Mexico. And the staff was fantastic. Extremely friendly and accommodating. And extremely going 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. And selected up our rental automobile a couple days early to go off and explore the location.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts need that you go to a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their discounted prices. No biggie. We feel like that deserves it.
Premier Travel Resorts, nevertheless, needs that you go to a marketing presentation during each stay. When they offered us the bundle, this is various from what we were told. When you are remaining somewhere for only two nights is a substantial portion of time, a two-hour sales pitch. They offered us 4 various stays, that suggests approximately eight hours of reasonably high-pressure sales! No thanks.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY TIRADE