We are bargain hunters. Spend less, travel more … right?!Bookvip Daytona Beach… If you like to make your getaway travel dollar stretch, then like us, you might find yourself thinking about a holiday package marketing offer. You ought to be prepared. Know that these promotional holiday bundle companies are not at all equal.
After the let down of our recent remain at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I simply left the phone from attempting to reserve the remainder of our vacation bundle with them (a long time in Florida). Let’s simply state that will not be taking place. We are simply going to eat the expense and forget about it.
From here on out, we will be reserving holiday plans through BookVIP. If you click over to their site, you will see that it is complete of the most inexpensive vacation bundles to some of the most popular locations.
Our very first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was fantastic. Maybe the Dreams ruined us.
One quick note … We have actually only used BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Reasoning tells me that not every resort getaway bundle is going to provide a comparable experience. It really is all going to boil down to the research you put in.
Is booking Very Important Person a timeshare?
They don’t advertise the actual name of the resorts. If you actually want to sleuth out the place you will be staying a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the images will expose the real identity of the home you are thinking about. There was plenty of information on the BookVIP website to assist us feel comfy with making our reservation.
You understand ahead of time if the dates you desire to take a trip are available. There is time to compare the restaurants and amenities. This is a huge contrast to the advertising holiday package sales calls I will talk about in the next section.
Simply be prepared for a couple of extra resort charges and taxes when you are prepared to make your reservation with BookVIP. Our $599 for 5 days/4 nights at a Cancun all inclusive expense around $720 after whatever was stated and done. In our case, part of the added fee 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 Daytona Beach
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the best. If this had actually been our first experience, we most likely would not have participated in another marketing offer. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first advertising resort stay, we started getting call using getaway plans to numerous locations. That is how we ended up with a holiday package including our latest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple brief stays in Florida and in other places.
These travel sales calls are always a high-pressure scenario unless you just hang up. Say no sufficient times and they will keep dropping the cost to where it in fact sounds like a good deal. There isn’t much time to look into the holiday properties they are using.
They drew us in with a stay in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the distance to Belize) and some time in Florida (hey there, sailboat shopping!). So we pulled the trigger and bought a bundle. Using it, that is an entire various story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to actually utilize the vacation time. There is a great deal of small print that makes travel planning really tough and potentially a lot more costly. They do not expose these details during the sales call.
IF YOU BUY A TRIP PLAN WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS, THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only schedule your dates 45-90 days ahead of time. Okay, reasonable enough.
However, when you contact us to request for your preferred dates, they need you to fill out a long kind requiring all the info that they already have. You then need to wait about a week to see if your dates are even readily available. Unless your itinerary will only include your stay at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel very inconvenient.
Preparation inexpensive flights, or readily available Airbnb stays in combination with your Premier Travel Resorts vacation bundle is very 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 got back to us.
Our bundle consisted of a remain in Orlando and a remain in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts needs that those stays be back to back or 30 days apart. So, in our case, utilizing them on either end of a business trip we had actually prepared was not enabled.
We used the Cancun part of our trip package, however we will not 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, and that is just the start. 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 guys at the good property told us they called it. Genuine.
Now, to be reasonable, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one dining establishment that was included in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you ignore the a/c unit leaking into our food) was really a nice experience. They changed up the menu every night, featuring foods from various parts of Mexico. And the personnel was remarkable. Very friendly and accommodating. And extremely ready to help us with our Spanish.
Once over the shock of the difference in the type of location we thought we would be remaining, we took advantage of it. We satisfied some great people. Ate some terrific food. Took some nice strolls on the golf course. And picked up our rental vehicle a couple days early to go off and check out the location.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts require that you go to a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their reduced rates. No biggie. We feel like that deserves it.
Premier Travel Resorts, however, requires that you participate in a promotional discussion throughout each stay. This is various from what we were told when they offered us the bundle.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY TIRADE