Spend less, travel more … right?! If you like to make your trip travel dollar stretch, then like us, you may discover yourself considering a trip bundle advertising offer. Know that these marketing getaway bundle business are not at all 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 rest of our trip plan with them (some time in Florida). Let’s just state that will not be happening. We are just going to forget and eat the expense about it.
From here on out, we will be scheduling getaway plans through BookVIP. If you click over to their site, you will see that it is full of the most inexpensive vacation packages to some of the most popular locations.
Our very first all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was amazing. Perhaps the Dreams spoiled us. This location was off-hook. It was whatever we had wished for and after that some.
One quick note … We have actually only used BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Logic tells me that not every resort trip package is going to provide a similar experience. It truly is all going to come down to the research you put in.
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Researching the properties used on BookVIP can be a bit of an obstacle. They do not advertise the real name of the resorts. Instead, they use fake names. But if you actually wish to sleuth out the place you will be remaining a little bit of investigative work on Google to match up the pictures will expose the true identity of the home you are thinking about. We didn’t bother going that far. There was plenty of info on the BookVIP website to help 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. Reserve when you have done your research and you are ready. You will know what you are getting. If the dates you want to take a trip are offered, you understand ahead of time. There is time to compare the features and restaurants. This is a huge contrast to the marketing vacation plan sales calls I will speak about in the next area.
When you are all set to make your reservation with BookVIP, just be prepared for a couple of extra resort costs and taxes. In our case, part of the extra charge was to cover pointers for the resort personnel.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Palm Springs
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the very best. We very likely would not have taken part in another promotional deal if this had actually been our very first experience. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our very first promotional resort stay, we started getting call using getaway 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 elsewhere.
These travel sales calls are constantly a high-pressure circumstance unless you simply hang up. State no adequate times and they will keep dropping the cost to where it in fact sounds like a good offer. There isn’t much time to investigate the vacation homes they are using.
They drew us in with a stay in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the proximity to Belize) and some time in Florida (hey there, sailboat shopping!). We pulled the trigger and purchased a bundle. However using it, that is an entire different story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to in fact use the trip time. There is a lot of small print that makes travel planning extremely challenging and potentially a lot more costly. They don’t reveal these details during the sales call.
IF YOU PURCHASE A HOLIDAY PLAN WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS, THIS IS WHAT YOU OUGHT TO BE PREPARED FOR …
You can just schedule your dates 45-90 days ahead of time. Okay, fair enough.
Nevertheless, when you call to ask for your favored dates, they need you to complete a long form requiring all the information 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 consist of your remain at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel really inconvenient.
Preparation budget-friendly flights, or available Airbnb remains in combination with your Premier Travel Resorts vacation plan is really difficult. In our case, the Airbnb we wished to stay at after our stay at the resort was booked by the time Premier Travel Resorts got back to us.
Our bundle consisted of a remain in Orlando and a stay in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts needs that those stays be back to back or 30 days apart. In our case, using them on either end of an organization journey we had prepared was not enabled.
We utilized the Cancun part of our trip bundle, but we won’t be utilizing 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, which is just the start. You see, they put us up, not in one of the luxury properties that they wanted to sell us on, but rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the people at the good property told us they called it. Genuine.
Now, to be reasonable, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one dining establishment that was included in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you neglect the a/c unit leaking into our food) was in fact a good experience. They changed up the menu every night, including foods from different parts of Mexico. And the personnel was fantastic. Very friendly and accommodating. And very going to assist us with our Spanish.
Twice the shock of the difference in the sort of location we thought we would be staying, we maximized it. We satisfied some good people. Consumed some excellent food. Took some nice walks on the golf course. And picked up our rental automobile a couple days early to go off and explore 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 deserves it.
Premier Travel Resorts, however, requires that you participate in a marketing presentation during each stay. This is different from what we were informed when they offered us the package.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY RANT