Invest less, travel more … right?! If you like to make your getaway travel dollar stretch, then like us, you might find yourself considering a vacation bundle marketing deal. Know that these advertising trip plan business are not at all equivalent.
After the let down of our current stay at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I simply got off the phone from trying to schedule the rest of our vacation package with them (some time in Florida). Let’s just say that will not be occurring. We are just going to eat the expense and forget about it.
From here on out, we will be scheduling vacation packages through BookVIP. If you click over to their website, you will see that it is full of the most inexpensive trip plans to some of the most popular locations.
Our very first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was fantastic. Perhaps the Dreams ruined us.
One quick note … We have actually just used BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Logic tells me that not every resort getaway plan is going to offer a similar experience. It really is all going to boil down to the research study you put in.
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Researching the residential or commercial properties offered on BookVIP can be a little a difficulty. They don’t promote the real name of the resorts. Rather, they utilize phony names. If you truly want to sleuth out the place you will be remaining a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the photos will reveal the true identity of the home you are thinking about. We didn’t bother going that far. There was lots of information on the BookVIP site to help us feel comfortable with making our booking.
What we enjoy about reserving with BookVIP? You are on your own schedule. No sales calls, no pressure. When you have actually done your research study and you are prepared, reserve. You will understand what you are getting. You know ahead of time if the dates you want to take a trip are available. There is time to compare the restaurants and features. This is a huge contrast to the promotional holiday plan sales calls I will talk about in the next area.
When you are all set to make your booking with BookVIP, simply be prepared for a few additional resort costs and taxes. In our case, part of the extra charge was to cover pointers for the resort staff.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Cruise Packages
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the very best. We really likely would not have actually gotten involved in another advertising offer if this had been our very first experience. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first marketing resort stay, we began getting telephone call offering holiday packages to numerous destinations. That is how we ended up with a getaway bundle including our newest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple short stays in Florida and in other places.
These travel sales calls are constantly a high-pressure circumstance unless you just hang up. Say no enough times and they will keep dropping the price to where it in fact sounds like a bargain. It is needed 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 trip residential or commercial properties they are offering. You may have a few seconds to quickly bring up some images but that has to do with it. An image deserves a thousand words, however not worth almost as much as having the ability to check out a few evaluations.
They drew us in with a remain in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the proximity to Belize) and a long time in Florida (hi, sailboat shopping!). So we shot and purchased a bundle. Using it, that is an entire various story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to really utilize the vacation time. There is a great deal of fine print that makes travel preparation really tough and potentially a lot more pricey. They don’t reveal these details throughout the sales call.
THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only just your dates 45-90 days ahead of time if YOU BUY A VACATION PLAN WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS. Okay, reasonable enough.
When you call to ask for your favored dates, they need you to fill out a long form needing 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 only consist of your stay at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel very inconvenient.
Preparation economical flights, or available Airbnb stays in combination with your Premier Travel Resorts holiday bundle is extremely hard. In our case, the Airbnb we wanted to remain 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 stay in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts needs that those stays be back to back or thirty days apart. So, in our case, utilizing them on either end of an organization trip we had planned was not enabled.
We used the Cancun portion of our trip package, however we won’t be using 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 luxury properties that they desired to sell us on, but rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the people at the nice property told us they called it.
Now, to be fair, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one restaurant that was consisted of in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you neglect the a/c unit dripping into our food) was actually a nice experience. They changed up the menu every night, featuring foods from various parts of Mexico. And the personnel was remarkable. Extremely friendly and accommodating. And extremely ready to assist us with our Spanish.
Twice the shock of the distinction in the type of place we believed we would be staying, we made the most of it. We satisfied some great people. Consumed some terrific food. Took some nice walks on the golf course. And picked up our rental vehicle a couple days early to go off and check out the area.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts require that you go to a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their reduced prices. No biggie. We feel like that is worth it.
Premier Travel Resorts, however, requires that you go to a marketing presentation during each stay. This is various from what we were informed when they offered us the package.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY RANT