We are deal hunters. Invest less, travel more … right?!Bookvip Maggie Valley… If you like to make your getaway travel dollar stretch, then like us, you might find yourself thinking about a holiday plan advertising offer. You ought to be prepared. Know that these promotional holiday bundle companies are not at all equal.
After the pulled down of our current remain at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I just got off the phone from trying to schedule the remainder of our vacation package with them (some time in Florida). Let’s simply say that will not be taking place. We are simply going to forget and consume the cost about it.
From here on out, we will be booking trip bundles through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Definitely, you’ve seen the Facebook sponsored posts. If you click over to their website, you will see that it has lots of the cheapest vacation plans to a few of the most popular locations. They have some seriously elegant looking stays all over the world at some insane great prices.
Our very first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was incredible. Perhaps the Dreams spoiled us.
One quick note … We have actually just used BookVIP one time, at one luxury resort in Cancun. Reasoning informs me that not every resort vacation bundle is going to provide a comparable experience. It really is all going to boil down to the research you put in.
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They don’t promote the real name of the resorts. If you actually want 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 property you are considering. There was plenty of information on the BookVIP website to help us feel comfy with making our appointment.
You understand ahead of time if the dates you desire to travel are offered. There is time to compare the amenities and restaurants. This is a huge contrast to the promotional holiday plan sales calls I will talk about in the next area.
When you are ready to make your appointment with BookVIP, simply be gotten ready for a couple of extra resort charges and taxes. 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 suggestions for the resort staff. After the experience we had, we found this to be well worth it.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Maggie Valley
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the best. If this had actually been our very first experience, we most likely would not have actually taken part in another advertising deal. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first promotional resort stay, we began getting call offering vacation plans to numerous locations. That is how we ended up with a trip plan including our most recent Cancun all inclusive plus a couple brief stays in Florida and in other places.
These travel sales calls are constantly a high-pressure scenario unless you simply hang up. Say no sufficient times and they will keep dropping the price to where it actually seems like a good deal. If they capture your interest and you choose to acquire, it is needed that you do so prior to completion of the phone call. There isn’t much time to investigate the trip properties they are offering. You might have a few seconds to quickly pull up some photos however that is about it. An image is worth a thousand words, but unworthy almost as much as having the ability to check out a few reviews.
They drew us in with a remain in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the proximity to Belize) and a long time in Florida (hi, sailboat shopping!). So we shot and bought a bundle. However using it, that is a whole different story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to in fact use the vacation time. There is a lot of small print that makes travel preparation really tough and possibly a lot more pricey. They do not expose these details during the sales call.
IF YOU PURCHASE A TRIP PACKAGE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS, THIS IS WHAT YOU OUGHT TO BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only reserve your dates 45-90 days ahead of time. Okay, reasonable enough.
However, when you contact us to request for your favored dates, they need you to complete a long type needing all the details that they already have. You then need to wait about a week to see if your dates are even available. Unless your travel plans will only consist of your remain at their resort, this makes planning the rest of your travel very troublesome.
Planning cost effective flights, or offered Airbnb remains in conjunction with your Premier Travel Resorts vacation bundle is very challenging. In our case, the Airbnb we wanted to remain at after our stay at the resort was scheduled by the time Premier Travel Resorts returned to us.
Our plan consisted of a stay in Orlando and a stay 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 business journey we had actually prepared was not allowed.
We utilized the Cancun part of our getaway plan, however we won’t be utilizing the rest of it.
THE BAIT AND SWITCH CANCUN ‘ALL INCLUSIVE’ THROUGH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS
You see, they put us up, not in one of the luxury homes that they desired to sell us on, but rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the guys at the great home informed us they called it.
Now, to be reasonable, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one restaurant that was consisted of in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you overlook the a/c unit dripping into our food) was actually a great experience. They altered the menu every night, featuring foods from different parts of Mexico. And the personnel was incredible. Very friendly and accommodating. And extremely going to assist us with our Spanish.
Once over the shock of the distinction in the kind of location 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 area.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts need that you participate in a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their affordable rates. No biggie. We seem like that is worth it.
Premier Travel Resorts, nevertheless, needs that you participate in an advertising presentation throughout each stay. This is various from what we were informed when they sold us the package. When you are remaining someplace for only 2 nights is a substantial chunk of time, a two-hour sales pitch. They sold us four various stays, that indicates approximately eight hours of moderately high-pressure sales! No thanks.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY RANT