Invest less, travel more … right?! If you like to make your holiday travel dollar stretch, then like us, you might discover yourself thinking about a getaway plan promotional offer. Know that these promotional holiday bundle business are not at all equivalent.
After the pulled down of our recent stay at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I just left the phone from attempting to book the remainder of our vacation bundle with them (a long time in Florida). Let’s just state that will not be taking place. We are just going to eat the cost and forget about it.
From here on out, we will be scheduling getaway plans through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Certainly, you have actually seen the Facebook sponsored posts. You will see that it is full of the most inexpensive vacation bundles to some of the most popular destinations 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 fantastic. Possibly the Dreams spoiled us.
One fast note … We have only utilized BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Reasoning tells me that not every resort getaway bundle is going to provide a similar experience. It truly is all going to come down to the research you put in.
Is booking Very Important Person a timeshare?
They do not promote the real name of the resorts. If you truly want to sleuth out the place you will be remaining a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the images will reveal the true identity of the home you are considering. There was plenty of info on the BookVIP site to help us feel comfy with making our appointment.
You know ahead of time if the dates you desire to take a trip are offered. There is time to compare the amenities and restaurants. This is a big contrast to the marketing vacation bundle sales calls I will talk about in the next section.
When you are prepared to make your reservation with BookVIP, simply be prepared for a couple of additional resort fees 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 Cancun
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the best. We extremely likely would not have actually taken part in another marketing offer if this had been our first experience. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first advertising resort stay, we began getting phone calls using trip packages to various locations. That is how we wound up with a vacation bundle including our most recent Cancun all inclusive plus a couple short stays in Florida and somewhere else.
These travel sales calls are constantly a high-pressure situation unless you just hang up. Say no adequate times and they will keep dropping the rate to where it in fact sounds like a good deal. It is required that you do so prior to the end of the phone call if they capture your interest and you choose to purchase. There isn’t much time to investigate the getaway residential or commercial properties they are providing. You may have a couple of seconds to rapidly pull up some photos however that has to do with it. A picture is worth a thousand words, but unworthy nearly as much as being able to check out a couple of reviews.
They drew us in with a stay in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the distance to Belize) and a long time in Florida (hey there, sailboat shopping!). So we shot and purchased a bundle. However using it, that is an entire various story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it easy to really utilize the vacation time. There is a lot of small print that makes travel planning really difficult and possibly a lot more costly. They don’t reveal these information during the sales call.
IF YOU ACQUIRE A VACATION PLAN WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS, THIS IS WHAT YOU MUST BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only book your dates 45-90 days ahead of time. Okay, fair enough.
However, when you call to request for your preferred dates, they require you to complete a long type requiring all the details that they currently 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 remain at their resort, this makes planning the rest of your travel extremely inconvenient.
Planning affordable flights, or available Airbnb remains in combination with your Premier Travel Resorts vacation package is very challenging. In our case, the Airbnb we wanted to stay at after our remain at the resort was booked by the time Premier Travel Resorts returned to us.
Our package included a remain in Orlando and a stay in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts requires that those stays be back to back or thirty days apart. So, in our case, using them on either end of a service journey we had actually prepared was not permitted.
We used the Cancun part of our trip plan, however we won’t be using the rest of it.
THE BAIT AND SWITCH CANCUN ‘ALL INCLUSIVE’ THROUGH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS
The space was unclean, the toilet was chipped, the lights flickered, which is simply the beginning. You see, they put us up, not in one of the high-end residential or commercial properties that they wished to offer us on, but rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the people at the nice home informed us they called it. For real.
Now, to be fair, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one dining establishment that was included in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you ignore the a/c leaking into our food) was in fact a great experience. They changed up the menu every night, featuring foods from various parts of Mexico. And the personnel was fantastic. Really friendly and accommodating. And very happy to assist us with our Spanish.
Twice the shock of the distinction in the sort of place we thought we would be remaining, we maximized it. We satisfied some great individuals. Consumed some fantastic food. Took some good walks on the golf course. And got our rental cars and truck a couple days early to go off and check out 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 rates. No biggie. We feel like that deserves it.
Premier Travel Resorts, however, requires that you go to a promotional presentation during each stay. This is different from what we were told when they offered us the package.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY TIRADE