Spend less, travel more … right?! If you like to make your trip travel dollar stretch, then like us, you might find yourself considering a trip bundle marketing offer. Know that these promotional trip package business are not at all equal.
After the pulled down of our recent stay at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I simply left the phone from trying to schedule the remainder of our holiday bundle with them (a long time in Florida). Let’s just state that will not be taking place. We are simply going to consume the expense and forget about it.
From here on out, we will be booking holiday plans through BookVIP. If you click over to their site, you will see that it is full of the least expensive getaway packages to some of the most popular locations.
Our very first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was fantastic. Maybe the Dreams spoiled us.
One quick note … We have only utilized BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Logic tells me that not every resort holiday plan is going to supply 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 little bit of a challenge. They don’t market the actual name of the resorts. Instead, they utilize phony names. If you truly 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 bother going that far. There was lots of details on the BookVIP site to help us feel comfortable with making our appointment.
What we enjoy about scheduling with BookVIP? You are on your own schedule. No sales calls, no pressure. Schedule when you have done your research study and you are ready. You will know what you are getting. You know ahead of time if the dates you wish to travel are offered. There is time to compare the dining establishments and features. This is a big contrast to the advertising trip bundle sales calls I will speak about in the next area.
When you are all set to make your booking with BookVIP, just be prepared for a few extra resort charges and taxes. In our case, part of the extra charge was to cover suggestions for the resort staff.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip.Cpm
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the best. We really likely would not have gotten involved in another promotional offer if this had been our first experience. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our very first advertising resort stay, we began getting call using holiday bundles to different destinations. That is how we wound up with a trip package including our latest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple short stays in Florida and elsewhere.
These travel sales calls are constantly a high-pressure situation unless you simply hang up. Say no sufficient times and they will keep dropping the rate to where it in fact sounds like a bargain. It is required that you do so prior to the end of the phone call if they record your interest and you choose to purchase. There isn’t much time to investigate the vacation properties they are providing. You might have a few seconds to rapidly bring up some images but that is about it. A photo deserves a thousand words, however unworthy nearly as much as having the ability to read a couple of reviews.
They drew us in with a remain in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the proximity to Belize) and some time in Florida (hello, sailboat shopping!). So we pulled the trigger and purchased a plan. But utilizing it, that is an entire different story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to really utilize the trip time. There is a lot of fine print that makes travel planning very tough and potentially a lot more expensive. They do not reveal these details throughout the sales call.
THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only reserve book dates 45-90 days ahead of time if YOU PURCHASE A TRIP PACKAGE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS. Okay, reasonable enough.
When you call to ask for your favored dates, they need you to fill out a long type needing all the information that they currently have. You then have to wait about a week to see if your dates are even offered. Unless your itinerary will only include your stay at their resort, this makes planning the rest of your travel really bothersome.
Preparation economical flights, or readily available Airbnb stays in conjunction with your Premier Travel Resorts vacation bundle is really challenging. In our case, the Airbnb we wished to stay at after our remain at the resort was booked by the time Premier Travel Resorts returned to us.
Our bundle included a remain in Orlando and a remain 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 business journey we had actually planned was not permitted.
We utilized the Cancun part of our getaway 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 high-end residential or commercial properties that they wanted to sell us on, but rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the people at the good home told us they called it.
The one dining establishment that was included in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you overlook the air conditioner leaking into our food) was really a nice experience. They altered up the menu every night, including foods from different parts of Mexico. And extremely prepared to assist us with our Spanish.
Once over the shock of the distinction in the kind of place we believed we would be staying, we made the many of it. And chose up our rental vehicle a couple days early to go off and explore the area.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts need that you attend a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their discounted prices. No biggie. We seem like that deserves it.
Premier Travel Resorts, nevertheless, requires that you attend an advertising discussion throughout each stay. This is various from what we were informed when they sold us the plan.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY RANT