We are deal hunters. Invest less, take a trip more … right?!Bookvip.Com Blackout Dates… If you like to make your getaway travel dollar stretch, then like us, you might find yourself considering a trip bundle promotional deal. You should be prepared. Know that these promotional vacation package companies are not equal.
After the pulled down of our current remain at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I just left the phone from attempting to schedule the remainder of our getaway bundle 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 trip plans through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Undoubtedly, you’ve seen the Facebook sponsored posts. If you click over to their website, you will see that it has lots of the most inexpensive trip packages to some of the most popular destinations. They have some seriously elegant looking stays all over the world at some insane good prices.
Our very first all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was amazing. Possibly the Dreams spoiled us. This location was off-hook. It was everything we had expected and after that some.
One fast note … We have actually only used BookVIP one time, at one luxury resort in Cancun. Logic informs me that not every resort holiday package is going to supply a similar experience. It truly is all going to come down to the research you put in.
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Looking into the residential or commercial properties offered on BookVIP can be a bit of an obstacle. They do not market the actual name of the resorts. Instead, they use fake names. If you actually desire to sleuth out the place you will be staying a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the photos will reveal the true identity of the property you are considering. We didn’t trouble going that far. There was plenty of info on the BookVIP website to assist us feel comfortable with making our appointment.
What we enjoy about booking with BookVIP? You are on your own schedule. No sales calls, no pressure. When you have actually done your research study and you are ready, schedule. You will understand what you are getting. You understand ahead of time if the dates you wish to take a trip are readily available. There is time to compare the dining establishments and facilities. This is a big contrast to the marketing getaway package sales calls I will discuss in the next area.
When you are ready to make your booking with BookVIP, simply be gotten ready for a couple of additional resort charges and taxes. Our $599 for 5 days/4 nights at a Cancun all inclusive cost around $720 after everything was said and done. In our case, part of the surcharge was to cover tips for the resort staff. After the experience we had, we discovered this to be well worth it.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip.Com Blackout Dates
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the very best. We extremely likely would not have actually gotten involved in another promotional offer if this had actually been our very first experience. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our very first promotional resort stay, we started getting telephone call offering getaway plans to different locations. That is how we ended up with a trip package including our most recent Cancun all inclusive plus a couple brief stays in Florida and somewhere else.
These travel sales calls are constantly a high-pressure situation unless you simply hang up. Say no adequate times and they will keep dropping the rate to where it in fact seems like a bargain. If they record your interest and you decide to acquire, it is needed that you do so prior to the end of the call. There isn’t much time to research the holiday homes they are using. You may have a few seconds to rapidly bring up some photos however that has to do with it. A picture deserves a thousand words, however unworthy nearly as much as being able to read a couple of reviews.
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 (hey there, sailboat shopping!). We pulled the trigger and bought a package. However using it, that is a whole different story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it easy to really utilize the trip time. There is a lot of fine print that makes travel planning very challenging and potentially a lot more pricey. They don’t reveal these information 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 ACQUIRE A VACATION PLAN WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS. Okay, fair enough.
Nevertheless, when you contact us to ask for your favored dates, they need you to submit a long type needing all the information that they already have. You then need to wait about a week to see if your dates are even offered. Unless your travel plans will just consist of your remain at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel extremely bothersome.
Planning cost effective flights, or offered Airbnb remains in conjunction with your Premier Travel Resorts getaway plan is extremely tough. In our case, the Airbnb we wanted to stay at after our stay at the resort was scheduled by the time Premier Travel Resorts returned 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 1 month apart. So, in our case, utilizing them on either end of a service trip we had actually prepared was not enabled.
We utilized the Cancun part of our vacation package, but we won’t be using the rest of it.
THE BAIT AND SWITCH CANCUN ‘ALL INCLUSIVE’ THROUGH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS
The room was dirty, the toilet was chipped, the lights flickered, which is simply the start. You see, they put us up, not in one of the luxury properties that they wanted to sell us on, but rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the guys at the nice residential or commercial property informed us they called it. Genuine.
The one dining establishment that was included in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you neglect the air conditioner leaking into our food) was really a nice experience. They altered up the menu every night, featuring foods from various parts of Mexico. And extremely willing 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 chose up our rental vehicle 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 reduced costs. No biggie. We feel like that deserves it.
Premier Travel Resorts, however, requires that you go to a marketing presentation during each stay. This is different from what we were informed when they offered us the bundle.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY RANT