We are deal hunters. Invest less, take a trip more … right?!Bookvip People Will Have Badges To Eat In Krystal Cancun… If you like to make your trip travel dollar stretch, then like us, you might find yourself considering a getaway package promotional deal. However you need to be prepared. Know that these marketing trip bundle companies are not at all equivalent.
After the let down of our recent stay at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I just got off the phone from trying to book the remainder of our trip plan with them (some time in Florida). Let’s simply state that will not be occurring. We are just going to forget and consume the expense about it.
From here on out, we will be scheduling holiday bundles through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Surely, you’ve seen the Facebook sponsored posts. If you click over to their website, you will see that it is full of the most inexpensive holiday plans to a few of the most popular destinations. They have some seriously glamorous looking stays all over the world at some insane good costs.
Our first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was remarkable. Possibly the Dreams ruined us. This location was off-hook. It was everything we had hoped for and then some.
One fast note … We have just used BookVIP one time, at one luxury resort in Cancun. Reasoning informs me that not every resort vacation plan is going to supply a similar experience. It truly is all going to boil down to the research study you put in.
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Investigating the properties offered on BookVIP can be a little bit of an obstacle. They do not advertise the actual name of the resorts. Instead, they utilize fake names. If you actually want to sleuth out the place you will be remaining a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the photos will expose the real identity of the home you are considering. We didn’t trouble going that far. There was a lot of info on the BookVIP website to assist us feel comfy with making our booking.
You understand ahead of time if the dates you desire to take a trip are readily available. There is time to compare the features and restaurants. This is a big contrast to the marketing vacation bundle 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 couple of additional resort charges and taxes. Our $599 for 5 days/4 nights at a Cancun all inclusive expense around $720 after everything was stated and done. In our case, part of the surcharge was to cover tips for the resort staff. After the experience we had, we discovered this to be well worth it.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip People Will Have Badges To Eat In Krystal Cancun
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 participated in another advertising deal. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first promotional resort stay, we started getting phone calls using getaway packages to various locations. That is how we ended up with a trip package including our latest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple brief stays in Florida and somewhere else.
These travel sales calls are constantly a high-pressure scenario unless you just hang up. Say no enough times and they will keep dropping the rate to where it actually sounds like a good offer. There isn’t much time to investigate the holiday residential or commercial properties they are providing.
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 (hello, sailboat shopping!). So we shot and bought a bundle. But utilizing it, that is a whole different story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to really utilize the trip time. There is a great deal of fine print that makes travel preparation really challenging and potentially a lot more costly. They do not reveal these details during 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 ACQUIRE A VACATION PLAN WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS. Okay, fair enough.
Nevertheless, when you contact us to request for your preferred dates, they need you to submit a long form 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 only include your stay at their resort, this makes planning the rest of your travel very bothersome.
Planning affordable flights, or offered Airbnb remains in conjunction with your Premier Travel Resorts getaway bundle is really difficult. In our case, the Airbnb we wanted to remain at after our stay at the resort was booked by the time Premier Travel Resorts got back to us.
Our plan included a remain in Orlando and a remain in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts requires that those stays be back to back or one month apart. In our case, using them on either end of a company trip we had actually prepared was not permitted.
We utilized the Cancun part of our vacation package, however we will not be using 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 high-end homes that they desired to offer us on, but rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the people at the good residential or commercial property told us they called it.
The one restaurant that was included in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you neglect the air conditioner leaking into our food) was actually a great experience. They changed up the menu every night, including foods from different parts of Mexico. And really prepared to assist us with our Spanish.
Once over the shock of the distinction in the kind of place we believed we would be remaining, we made the most of it. 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 require that you attend a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their affordable rates. No biggie. We seem like that is worth it.
Premier Travel Resorts, nevertheless, requires that you participate in an advertising discussion during each stay. This is various from what we were told when they sold us the plan.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY TIRADE