Spend less, take a trip more … right?! If you like to make your trip travel dollar stretch, then like us, you may discover yourself considering a trip package marketing offer. Know that these advertising vacation plan business are not at all equivalent.
After the let down of our current remain at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I simply got off the phone from attempting to schedule the remainder of our holiday package with them (some time in Florida). Let’s simply say that will not be happening. We are simply going to forget and consume the cost about it.
From here on out, we will be scheduling getaway bundles through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Certainly, you’ve seen the Facebook sponsored posts. You will see that it is full of the most inexpensive vacation plans 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 insane excellent rates.
Our very first all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was fantastic. Possibly the Dreams ruined us. This location was off-hook. It was whatever we had actually wished for and then some.
One fast note … We have only utilized BookVIP one time, at one luxury resort in Cancun. Reasoning tells me that not every resort trip plan is going to provide a similar experience. It really is all going to boil down to the research you put in.
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Looking into the homes offered on BookVIP can be a little a challenge. They don’t promote the actual name of the resorts. Rather, they use fake names. If you really desire to sleuth out the place you will be remaining a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the images will reveal the real identity of the residential or commercial property you are considering. We didn’t trouble going that far. There was a lot of information on the BookVIP website to help us feel comfy with making our reservation.
What we enjoy about scheduling with BookVIP? You are on your own schedule. No sales calls, no pressure. Book 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 want to travel are readily available. There is time to compare the dining establishments and facilities. This is a huge contrast to the advertising getaway package sales calls I will talk about in the next area.
When you are ready to make your booking with BookVIP, simply be gotten ready for a few extra resort costs and taxes. Our $599 for 5 days/4 nights at a Cancun all inclusive cost around $720 after everything was said and done. In our case, part of the surcharge was to cover ideas for the resort personnel. After the experience we had, we found this to be well worth it.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Desire Riviera Maya
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the very best. We really likely would not have participated in another advertising offer 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 started getting call providing vacation plans to numerous destinations. That is how we ended up with a getaway package including our most recent Cancun all inclusive plus a couple brief stays in Florida and somewhere else.
These travel sales calls are always a high-pressure situation unless you simply hang up. State no adequate times and they will keep dropping the rate to where it actually sounds like an excellent deal. There isn’t much time to investigate the trip homes they are using.
They drew us in with a remain 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 bought a bundle. 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 lot of fine print that makes travel planning really hard and potentially a lot more costly. They don’t expose these information throughout the sales call.
THIS IS WHAT YOU MUST BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only just schedule dates 45-90 days ahead of time if YOU PURCHASE A GETAWAY PACKAGE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS. Okay, fair enough.
However, when you call to request for your favored dates, they require you to submit a long kind needing all the details that they currently have. You then have to wait about a week to see if your dates are even offered. Unless your travel plans will only include your stay at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel extremely bothersome.
Preparation affordable flights, or readily available Airbnb remains in combination with your Premier Travel Resorts vacation plan is really difficult. In our case, the Airbnb we wanted to stay at after our remain at the resort was reserved by the time Premier Travel Resorts got back to us.
Our plan consisted of a remain in Orlando and a remain in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts needs that those stays be back to back or one month apart. So, in our case, using them on either end of a service trip we had prepared was not allowed.
We used the Cancun portion of our vacation plan, however we will not be using the rest of it.
THE BAIT AND SWITCH CANCUN ‘ALL INCLUSIVE’ THROUGH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS
The space was filthy, the toilet was broken, the lights flickered, and that is just the beginning. You see, they put us up, not in one of the high-end residential or commercial properties that they wished to sell us on, however rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the guys at the great 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 overlook the air conditioning unit leaking into our food) was actually a good experience. They altered the menu every night, featuring foods from various parts of Mexico. And the staff was incredible. Very friendly and accommodating. And extremely happy to help us with our Spanish.
Once over the shock of the distinction in the kind of location we thought we would be staying, we took advantage of it. We met some good people. Ate some excellent food. Took some good strolls on the golf course. And picked up our rental automobile 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 affordable costs. No biggie. We seem like that is worth it.
Premier Travel Resorts, however, needs that you attend a promotional presentation throughout each stay. When they offered us the bundle, this is various from what we were told. A two-hour sales pitch when you are remaining somewhere for just two nights is a substantial portion of time. They offered us four different stays, that suggests up to 8 hours of moderately high-pressure sales! No thanks.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY RANT