Spend less, take a trip more … right?! If you like to make your vacation travel dollar stretch, then like us, you might discover yourself thinking about a trip package promotional offer. Know that these advertising getaway bundle business are not at all equivalent.
After the pulled down of our recent remain at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I just left the phone from trying to reserve the rest of our getaway plan with them (a long time in Florida). Let’s simply state that will not be happening. We are just going to forget and consume the expense about it.
From here on out, we will be reserving vacation plans through BookVIP. If you click over to their site, you will see that it is complete of the most inexpensive getaway bundles to some of the most popular locations.
Our very first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was remarkable. Perhaps the Dreams ruined us.
One fast note … We have actually just utilized BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Reasoning tells me that not every resort holiday bundle is going to provide a comparable experience. It actually is all going to come down to the research study you put in.
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Researching the homes offered on BookVIP can be a bit of a difficulty. They do not market the real name of the resorts. Rather, they use fake names. However if you really wish to sleuth out the place you will be staying a little investigative deal with Google to match up the pictures will reveal the true identity of the residential or commercial property you are considering. We didn’t bother going that far. There was lots of info on the BookVIP website to assist us feel comfortable with making our appointment.
You understand ahead of time if the dates you want to travel are readily available. There is time to compare the dining establishments and features. This is a huge contrast to the advertising getaway bundle sales calls I will talk about in the next section.
Simply be prepared for a few additional resort fees and taxes when you are ready to make your reservation with BookVIP. Our $599 for 5 days/4 nights at a Cancun all inclusive expense around $720 after everything was said and done. In our case, part of the surcharge was to cover ideas 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 Florida
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the best. We very likely would not have gotten involved in another advertising deal if this had actually been our very first experience. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first advertising resort stay, we began getting call using getaway bundles to different destinations. That is how we ended up with a getaway plan 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 scenario unless you simply hang up. State no adequate times and they will keep dropping the price to where it actually sounds like a great deal. There isn’t much time to research the vacation homes they are using.
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!). We pulled the trigger and bought a package. However utilizing it, that is an entire various story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it easy to really utilize the vacation time. There is a great deal of fine print that makes travel planning extremely difficult and possibly a lot more pricey. They don’t expose these information throughout the sales call.
IF YOU PURCHASE A HOLIDAY PLAN WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS, THIS IS WHAT YOU OUGHT TO BE PREPARED FOR …
You can just schedule your dates 45-90 days ahead of time. Okay, fair enough.
When you call to ask for your preferred dates, they need you to fill out 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 include your stay at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel extremely inconvenient.
Preparation budget friendly flights, or readily available Airbnb stays in conjunction with your Premier Travel Resorts getaway package is extremely hard. In our case, the Airbnb we wished to stay at after our stay at the resort was booked by the time Premier Travel Resorts got back to us.
Our bundle consisted of a remain in Orlando and a stay in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts requires that those stays be back to back or one month apart. In our case, utilizing them on either end of a business journey we had actually prepared was not enabled.
We utilized the Cancun part 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
The room was unclean, the toilet was broken, the lights flickered, which is just the start. You see, they put us up, not in one of the luxury properties that they wished to offer us on, however rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the guys at the nice home told us they called it. Genuine.
Now, to be reasonable, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one dining establishment that was consisted of in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you neglect the air conditioning system dripping into our food) was in fact a good experience. They altered the menu every night, including foods from various parts of Mexico. And the staff was incredible. Very friendly and accommodating. And extremely going to assist us with our Spanish.
Once over the shock of the distinction in the sort of location we believed we would be staying, we maximized it. We satisfied some great individuals. Consumed some fantastic food. Took some good walks on the golf course. And got our rental vehicle a couple days early to go off and explore the location.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts require 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, needs that you go to a promotional discussion throughout each stay. When they sold us the plan, this is different from what we were informed. A two-hour sales pitch when you are remaining somewhere for just two nights is a substantial chunk of time. They offered us four different stays, that means up to eight hours of moderately high-pressure sales! No thanks.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY TIRADE