Spend less, take a trip more … right?! If you like to make your getaway travel dollar stretch, then like us, you might discover yourself considering a trip package promotional offer. Know that these marketing vacation package companies are not at all equivalent.
After the pulled down of our recent remain at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I simply got off the phone from trying to book the remainder of our getaway package with them (a long time in Florida). Let’s simply 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 booking getaway bundles through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Surely, you have actually seen the Facebook sponsored posts. You will see that it is full of the most inexpensive trip packages to some of the most popular destinations if you click over to their site. They have some seriously elegant looking stays all over the world at some crazy great costs.
Our very first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was incredible. Maybe the Dreams spoiled us.
One quick note … We have only used BookVIP one time, at one luxury resort in Cancun. Reasoning informs me that not every resort vacation bundle is going to provide a similar experience. It really is all going to boil down to the research study you put in.
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They do not market the actual name of the resorts. If you truly want to sleuth out the place you will be staying 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 thinking about. There was plenty of info on the BookVIP site to assist us feel comfy with making our reservation.
What we love about booking with BookVIP? You are on your own schedule. No sales calls, no pressure. When you have done your research study and you are all set, schedule. You will know what you are getting. If the dates you want to take a trip are readily available, you know ahead of time. There is time to compare the restaurants and facilities. This is a huge contrast to the advertising holiday package sales calls I will speak about in the next section.
When you are ready to make your booking with BookVIP, just be prepared for a couple of extra resort charges and taxes. In our case, part of the additional charge was to cover ideas for the resort staff.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Greece
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the very best. If this had been our very first experience, we highly likely would not have actually participated in another advertising offer. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our very first advertising resort stay, we started getting phone calls providing vacation plans to various locations. That is how we ended up with a holiday bundle including our most recent Cancun all inclusive plus a couple brief remain in Florida and elsewhere.
These travel sales calls are always a high-pressure situation unless you just hang up. Say no adequate times and they will keep dropping the cost to where it really seems 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 buy. There isn’t much time to look into the trip homes they are using. You may have a few seconds to rapidly bring up some pictures however that is about it. A photo deserves a thousand words, but unworthy almost as much as being able to read a couple of evaluations.
They drew us in with a stay in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the proximity to Belize) and a long time in Florida (hi, sailboat shopping!). We pulled the trigger and purchased a plan. Utilizing it, that is a whole different story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to actually use the holiday time. There is a lot of small print that makes travel planning very hard and potentially a lot more costly. They do not reveal these information throughout the sales call.
THIS IS WHAT YOU OUGHT TO BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only reserve your dates 45-90 days ahead of time if YOU BUY A HOLIDAY BUNDLE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS. Okay, fair enough.
However, when you call to ask for your preferred dates, they need you to submit a long type needing all the information that they currently have. You then need to wait about a week to see if your dates are even offered. Unless your itinerary will just include your stay at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel really bothersome.
Preparation economical flights, or offered Airbnb remains in combination with your Premier Travel Resorts holiday plan is very tough. In our case, the Airbnb we wished to stay at after our remain at the resort was booked by the time Premier Travel Resorts got back to us.
Our bundle 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, using them on either end of a service journey we had actually prepared was not enabled.
We utilized the Cancun part of our holiday bundle, but 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 cracked, the lights flickered, and that is just the beginning. You see, they put us up, not in among the luxury properties that they wanted to offer us on, however rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the people at the great home told us they called it. For real.
The one dining establishment that was consisted of in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you overlook the air conditioner leaking into our food) was in fact a good experience. They altered up the menu every night, including foods from various parts of Mexico. And very ready to assist us with our Spanish.
As soon as over the shock of the distinction in the kind of place we believed we would be remaining, we made the many of it. And picked up our rental cars and truck a couple days early to go off and check out the location.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts require that you attend a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their affordable rates. No biggie. We feel like that is worth it.
Premier Travel Resorts, nevertheless, requires that you participate in a marketing presentation during each stay. This is different from what we were told when they offered us the bundle.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY RANT