Spend less, take a trip more … right?! If you like to make your holiday travel dollar stretch, then like us, you might discover yourself thinking about a holiday bundle promotional offer. 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 left the phone from trying to book the rest of our getaway package with them (some time in Florida). Let’s simply say that will not be taking place. We are just going to forget and eat the cost about it.
From here on out, we will be reserving trip bundles through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Undoubtedly, you have actually seen the Facebook sponsored posts. If you click over to their site, you will see that it has lots of the most affordable vacation plans to a few of the most popular destinations. They have some seriously luxurious looking stays all over the world at some insane excellent costs.
Our very first all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was amazing. Possibly the Dreams ruined us. This place was off-hook. It was everything we had wished for and after that some.
One fast note … We have only used BookVIP one time, at one luxury resort in Cancun. Logic informs me that not every resort holiday plan is going to supply a similar experience. It really is all going to come down to the research study you put in.
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They do not market the actual name of the resorts. If you actually desire to sleuth out the location you will be staying a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the photos will reveal the real identity of the home you are thinking about. There was plenty of info on the BookVIP site to assist us feel comfy with making our reservation.
What we love about booking with BookVIP? You are on your own schedule. No sales calls, no pressure. Book when you have actually done your research study and you are ready. You will understand what you are getting. You understand ahead of time if the dates you want to travel are offered. There is time to compare the restaurants and features. This is a big contrast to the promotional holiday plan sales calls I will talk about in the next section.
When you are all set to make your booking with BookVIP, simply be prepared for a couple of 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 San Lucas Review
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 likely would not have taken part in another promotional offer. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first marketing resort stay, we began getting phone calls using getaway plans to various locations. That is how we wound up with a trip bundle including our newest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple brief remain in Florida and somewhere else.
These travel sales calls are constantly a high-pressure scenario unless you simply hang up. Say no adequate times and they will keep dropping the price to where it really sounds like a good deal. There isn’t much time to investigate the vacation properties they are offering.
They drew us in with a remain in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the proximity to Belize) and a long time in Florida (hi, sailboat shopping!). So we pulled the trigger and purchased a bundle. But utilizing it, that is an entire various story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to in fact utilize the trip time. There is a lot of fine print that makes travel planning extremely hard and possibly a lot more costly. They do not expose these details throughout the sales call.
IF YOU ACQUIRE A VACATION PLAN WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS, THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR …
You can just reserve your dates 45-90 days ahead of time. Okay, fair enough.
When you call to ask for your preferred dates, they require you to fill out a long kind requiring all the info that they already have. You then have to wait about a week to see if your dates are even available. Unless your itinerary will just include your stay at their resort, this makes planning the rest of your travel extremely inconvenient.
Planning budget-friendly flights, or offered Airbnb stays in conjunction with your Premier Travel Resorts holiday bundle is very hard. In our case, the Airbnb we wanted to stay at after our stay at the resort was booked by the time Premier Travel Resorts got back to us.
Our plan consisted of a stay 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, using them on either end of a business trip we had actually prepared was not permitted.
We utilized the Cancun portion of our holiday package, however 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 luxury residential or commercial properties that they wanted to sell us on, however rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the people at the nice residential or commercial property informed us they called it.
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 air conditioning system leaking into our food) was in fact a great experience. They changed up the menu every night, including foods from different parts of Mexico. And the personnel was remarkable. Extremely friendly and accommodating. And extremely going to help us with our Spanish.
As soon as over the shock of the distinction in the kind of location we believed we would be staying, we made the most of it. And picked up our rental cars and truck a couple days early to go off and explore the location.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts need that you participate in a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their affordable costs. No biggie. We feel like that deserves it.
Premier Travel Resorts, however, needs that you go to a marketing presentation throughout each stay. This is different from what we were told when they sold us the plan.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY TIRADE