Spend less, travel more … right?! If you like to make your trip travel dollar stretch, then like us, you may find yourself thinking about a getaway plan marketing offer. Know that these marketing vacation plan companies are not at all equal.
After the let down of our recent stay at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I just left the phone from attempting to schedule the rest of our getaway bundle with them (some time in Florida). Let’s simply state that will not be occurring. We are just going to forget and eat the expense about it.
From here on out, we will be scheduling getaway plans through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Surely, you have actually seen the Facebook sponsored posts. If you click over to their site, you will see that it has lots of the most inexpensive trip packages to some of the most popular locations. They have some seriously elegant looking stays all over the world at some insane good prices.
Our very first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was amazing. Maybe the Dreams spoiled us.
One quick note … We have only used BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Reasoning tells me that not every resort trip plan is going to offer a comparable experience. It really is all going to come down to the research study you put in.
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They don’t advertise the actual name of the resorts. If you actually desire to sleuth out the location you will be remaining a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the pictures will reveal the true identity of the residential or commercial property you are thinking about. There was plenty of info on the BookVIP website to help us feel comfortable with making our booking.
What we like about reserving with BookVIP? You are on your own schedule. No sales calls, no pressure. Reserve when you have done your research and you are ready. You will know what you are getting. If the dates you desire to travel are readily available, you understand ahead of time. There is time to compare the dining establishments and amenities. This is a huge contrast to the advertising holiday bundle sales calls I will speak about in the next section.
When you are prepared to make your booking with BookVIP, just be prepared for a few additional resort costs and taxes. In our case, part of the extra charge was to cover ideas for the resort personnel.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Krystal Resort
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the very best. If this had been our first experience, we most likely would not have participated in another promotional offer. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our very first marketing resort stay, we began getting phone calls providing getaway bundles to numerous locations. That is how we wound up with a holiday bundle including our newest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple brief stays in Florida and in other places.
These travel sales calls are constantly a high-pressure circumstance unless you just hang up. Say no adequate times and they will keep dropping the cost to where it really sounds like a good deal. If they catch your interest and you decide to buy, it is needed that you do so prior to the end of the phone call. There isn’t much time to investigate the holiday properties they are using. You might have a couple of seconds to rapidly pull up some photos but that is about it. A picture is worth a thousand words, but not worth almost as much as being able to read a couple of evaluations.
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 (hey there, sailboat shopping!). So we pulled the trigger and bought a bundle. But utilizing it, that is an entire various story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to actually utilize the trip time. There is a lot of fine print that makes travel preparation really tough and potentially a lot more pricey. They do not expose these details during the sales call.
IF YOU BUY A GETAWAY PACKAGE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS, THIS IS WHAT YOU OUGHT TO BE PREPARED FOR …
You can just reserve your dates 45-90 days ahead of time. Okay, reasonable enough.
However, when you call to request your favored dates, they require you to complete a long kind needing all the details 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 just include your remain at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel extremely bothersome.
Preparation budget friendly flights, or available Airbnb remains in combination with your Premier Travel Resorts getaway plan is extremely challenging. In our case, the Airbnb we wished to stay at after our stay at the resort was scheduled by the time Premier Travel Resorts returned to us.
Our plan included a stay in Orlando and a remain in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts requires that those stays be back to back or thirty days apart. In our case, using them on either end of an organization trip we had actually planned was not permitted.
We utilized the Cancun part of our vacation package, however we won’t be using the rest of it.
THE BAIT AND SWITCH CANCUN ‘ALL INCLUSIVE’ THROUGH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS
The space was dirty, the toilet was cracked, the lights flickered, which is simply the start. You see, they put us up, not in one of the high-end residential or commercial properties that they wanted to offer us on, but rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the men at the good home told 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 neglect the air conditioner leaking into our food) was actually a great experience. They altered the menu every night, including foods from different parts of Mexico. And the staff was remarkable. Extremely friendly and accommodating. And very going to assist us with our Spanish.
Twice the shock of the difference in the type of location we believed we would be remaining, we took advantage of it. We satisfied some nice individuals. Ate some terrific food. Took some nice walks on the golf course. And picked up our rental cars and truck a couple days early to go off and check out the area.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts need that you attend a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their reduced costs. No biggie. We feel like that deserves it.
Premier Travel Resorts, however, requires that you participate in a marketing presentation throughout each stay. When they sold us the package, this is various from what we were informed. When you are remaining somewhere for just two nights is a huge portion of time, a two-hour sales pitch. They offered us 4 various stays, that indicates up to eight hours of reasonably high-pressure sales! No thanks.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY TIRADE