Invest less, travel more … right?! If you like to make your holiday travel dollar stretch, then like us, you may find yourself considering a getaway bundle marketing deal. Know that these promotional vacation bundle companies are not at all equivalent.
After the let down of our recent stay at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I just got off the phone from trying to schedule the rest of our trip bundle with them (some time in Florida). Let’s just state that will not be happening. We are simply going to forget and eat the expense about it.
From here on out, we will be reserving vacation packages through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Certainly, you have actually seen the Facebook sponsored posts. You will see that it is full of the cheapest holiday bundles 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 excellent prices.
Our first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was incredible. Perhaps the Dreams spoiled us. This place was off-hook. It was everything we had wished for and then some.
One quick note … We have just utilized BookVIP one time, at one luxury resort in Cancun. Reasoning tells me that not every resort vacation package is going to supply a similar experience. It actually is all going to boil down to the research study you put in.
Is booking Very Important Person a timeshare?
They do not promote the actual name of the resorts. If you truly want to sleuth out the place you will be staying a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the photos will reveal the real identity of the property you are considering. There was plenty of details on the BookVIP website 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. When you have done your research study and you are prepared, schedule. You will understand what you are getting. If the dates you want to travel are offered, you know ahead of time. There is time to compare the restaurants and facilities. This is a big contrast to the marketing vacation plan sales calls I will talk about in the next area.
When you are all set to make your reservation with BookVIP, simply be prepared for a few additional resort charges and taxes. In our case, part of the additional charge was to cover ideas for the resort personnel.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip.Com/Activate
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the best. We very likely would not have participated in another promotional deal if this had actually been our very first experience. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first promotional resort stay, we started getting phone calls offering holiday plans to various destinations. That is how we ended up with a holiday package including our latest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple brief remain in Florida and elsewhere.
These travel sales calls are always a high-pressure circumstance unless you simply hang up. Say no adequate times and they will keep dropping the rate to where it actually sounds like a good deal. It is needed that you do so before the end of the phone call if they record your interest and you decide to buy. There isn’t much time to investigate the trip homes they are offering. You might have a couple of seconds to quickly pull up some photos but that has to do with it. A photo deserves a thousand words, but not worth almost as much as being able to read a couple of evaluations.
They drew us in with a stay in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the proximity to Belize) and a long time in Florida (hey there, sailboat shopping!). So we pulled the trigger and purchased a bundle. Using it, that is an entire different story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it easy to in fact utilize the trip time. There is a lot of small print that makes travel planning extremely challenging and possibly a lot more costly. They don’t expose these details during 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 TRIP PACKAGE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS. Okay, fair enough.
When you call to ask for your preferred dates, they need you to fill out a long form needing all the information 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 just consist of your stay at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel really bothersome.
Planning economical flights, or available Airbnb stays in combination with your Premier Travel Resorts holiday bundle is really tough. In our case, the Airbnb we wanted to stay at after our remain at the resort was scheduled by the time Premier Travel Resorts returned to us.
Our bundle consisted of a stay in Orlando and a remain in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts requires that those stays be back to back or 30 days apart. In our case, using them on either end of a company journey we had actually planned was not enabled.
We utilized the Cancun part of our vacation plan, 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 high-end homes that they wanted to sell us on, but rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the people at the great home informed us they called it.
The one dining establishment that was consisted of in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you overlook the air conditioner dripping into our food) was actually a nice experience. They altered up the menu every night, including foods from various parts of Mexico. And extremely willing to assist us with our Spanish.
Twice the shock of the distinction in the type of place we thought we would be remaining, we took advantage of it. We met some good people. Consumed some fantastic food. Took some good strolls on the golf course. And picked up our rental cars and truck 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 affordable costs. No biggie. We feel like that is worth it.
Premier Travel Resorts, however, requires that you participate in a promotional discussion throughout each stay. This is various from what we were told when they offered us the bundle.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY TIRADE