We are bargain hunters. Invest less, take a trip more … right?!Bookvip Cancun All Inclusive… If you like to make your holiday travel dollar stretch, then like us, you may find yourself thinking about a trip package marketing deal. But you should be prepared. Know that these advertising getaway package business are not at all equivalent.
After the let down of our current remain at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I just got off the phone from attempting to book the remainder of our getaway plan with them (some time in Florida). Let’s simply say that will not be occurring. We are just going to consume the cost and forget about it.
From here on out, we will be booking holiday packages through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Certainly, you’ve seen the Facebook sponsored posts. If you click over to their site, you will see that it is full of the least expensive holiday plans to some of the most popular destinations. They have some seriously luxurious looking stays all over the world at some crazy excellent rates.
Our first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was fantastic. Possibly the Dreams ruined us.
One fast note … We have just utilized BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Logic tells me that not every resort vacation bundle is going to supply a comparable experience. It truly is all going to come down to the research study you put in.
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Researching the properties provided on BookVIP can be a bit of an obstacle. They do not advertise the real name of the resorts. Instead, they utilize phony 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 photos will reveal the true identity of the property you are thinking about. We didn’t trouble going that far. There was a lot of details on the BookVIP website to help 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 understand 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 dining establishments and amenities. This is a big contrast to the advertising vacation package sales calls I will speak about in the next area.
When you are prepared to make your reservation with BookVIP, simply be prepared for a few extra resort charges and taxes. In our case, part of the extra charge was to cover ideas for the resort personnel.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Cancun All Inclusive
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the very best. If this had actually been our first experience, we most likely would not have actually participated in another advertising deal. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first promotional resort stay, we began getting telephone call offering getaway plans to different destinations. That is how we wound up with a trip package including our latest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple brief remain in Florida and in other places.
These travel sales calls are always a high-pressure scenario unless you just hang up. State no adequate times and they will keep dropping the rate to where it really sounds like a great deal. There isn’t much time to look into the trip 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 some time in Florida (hi, sailboat shopping!). We pulled the trigger and purchased a plan. Using it, that is an entire various story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to actually utilize the holiday time. There is a lot of fine print that makes travel preparation very challenging and possibly a lot more expensive. They don’t reveal these details throughout the sales call.
IF YOU ACQUIRE A TRIP BUNDLE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS, THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only schedule your dates 45-90 days ahead of time. Okay, reasonable enough.
When you call to ask for your preferred dates, they need you to fill out a long kind needing all the information 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 consist of your remain at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel very troublesome.
Planning budget friendly flights, or offered Airbnb stays in combination with your Premier Travel Resorts vacation plan is extremely hard. In our case, the Airbnb we wanted to remain at after our stay at the resort was reserved by the time Premier Travel Resorts got back to us.
Our bundle consisted of a remain in Orlando and a remain in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts requires that those stays be back to back or one month apart. In our case, using them on either end of a business trip we had planned was not allowed.
We used the Cancun portion of our trip bundle, however we will not 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 guys at the nice residential or commercial property told us they called it.
Now, to be fair, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one dining establishment that was consisted of in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you ignore the ac system leaking into our food) was in fact a nice experience. They altered the menu every night, featuring foods from different parts of Mexico. And the personnel was remarkable. Extremely friendly and accommodating. And really willing to assist us with our Spanish.
Once over the shock of the difference in the kind of place we thought we would be remaining, we made the most of it. And chose up our rental cars and truck a couple days early to go off and explore the area.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts require that you participate in a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their reduced prices. No biggie. We seem like that deserves it.
Premier Travel Resorts, nevertheless, requires that you attend a marketing presentation during each stay. When they sold us the package, this is various from what we were told. A two-hour sales pitch when you are staying somewhere for just two nights is a huge chunk of time. They sold us four various stays, that suggests approximately 8 hours of reasonably high-pressure sales! No thanks.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY RANT