We are deal hunters. Spend less, travel more … right?!Bookvip Ft Lauderdale… If you like to make your vacation travel dollar stretch, then like us, you may find yourself thinking about a holiday package advertising deal. You need to be prepared. Know that these marketing trip bundle business are not equivalent.
After the let down of our current stay at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I just left the phone from attempting to reserve the remainder of our vacation plan with them (some time in Florida). Let’s just state that will not be taking place. We are simply going to eat the cost and forget about it.
From here on out, we will be reserving trip packages through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Undoubtedly, you have actually seen the Facebook sponsored posts. If you click over to their site, you will see that it is full of the most affordable trip bundles to a few of the most popular destinations. They have some seriously luxurious looking stays all over the world at some crazy excellent prices.
Our very first all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was fantastic. Perhaps the Dreams ruined us. This place was off-hook. It was whatever we had actually expected and then some.
One quick note … We have just used BookVIP one time, at one luxury resort in Cancun. Logic informs me that not every resort holiday package is going to provide a similar experience. It actually is all going to boil down to the research study you put in.
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Researching the homes provided on BookVIP can be a little bit of a difficulty. They don’t promote the actual 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 pictures will reveal the real identity of the home you are considering. We didn’t bother going that far. There was lots of details on the BookVIP website to help us feel comfortable with making our appointment.
What we enjoy about booking 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. If the dates you desire to take a trip are readily available, you know ahead of time. There is time to compare the facilities and dining establishments. This is a huge contrast to the marketing getaway plan sales calls I will talk about in the next section.
When you are ready to make your booking with BookVIP, simply be prepared for a few extra resort costs and taxes. In our case, part of the extra charge was to cover suggestions for the resort personnel.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Ft Lauderdale
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the best. If this had been our very first experience, we likely would not have participated in another promotional deal. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first promotional resort stay, we started getting call using vacation bundles to numerous locations. That is how we ended up with a holiday plan including our latest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple short remain in Florida and in other places.
These travel sales calls are always a high-pressure circumstance unless you just hang up. State no adequate times and they will keep dropping the cost to where it in fact sounds like a great offer. There isn’t much time to investigate the vacation residential or commercial properties they are offering.
They drew us in with a remain in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the distance to Belize) and some time in Florida (hi, sailboat shopping!). So we shot and bought a bundle. Using it, that is a whole different story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to in fact utilize the vacation time. There is a lot of fine print that makes travel planning extremely tough and potentially a lot more expensive. They don’t expose these information throughout the sales call.
THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only just your dates 45-90 days ahead of time if YOU ACQUIRE A HOLIDAY 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 kind needing all the info that they currently have. You then need 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 very troublesome.
Planning budget-friendly flights, or available Airbnb remains in conjunction with your Premier Travel Resorts holiday plan is really tough. In our case, the Airbnb we wanted to stay at after our remain at the resort was booked by the time Premier Travel Resorts returned to us.
Our plan consisted of a stay in Orlando and a remain 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 a business journey we had actually prepared was not enabled.
We utilized the Cancun portion of our getaway package, however we won’t be using the rest of it.
THE BAIT AND SWITCH CANCUN ‘ALL INCLUSIVE’ THROUGH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS
The room was dirty, the toilet was broken, the lights flickered, and that is just the beginning. You see, they put us up, not in among the luxury homes that they wanted to offer us on, but rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the guys at the good home informed us they called it. Genuine.
Now, to be reasonable, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one restaurant that was consisted of in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you neglect the a/c dripping into our food) was actually a great experience. They changed up the menu every night, including foods from various parts of Mexico. And the staff was amazing. Extremely friendly and accommodating. And really willing to help us with our Spanish.
Once over the shock of the difference in the type of place we believed we would be remaining, we made the most of it. We met some great people. Consumed some great food. Took some nice walks on the golf course. And picked up our rental car a couple days early to go off and check out the location.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts need that you participate in a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their discounted rates. No biggie. We seem like that is worth it.
Premier Travel Resorts, however, needs that you go to an advertising discussion during each stay. This is different from what we were told when they offered us the bundle.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY RANT