Invest less, take a trip more … right?! If you like to make your getaway travel dollar stretch, then like us, you may find yourself considering a trip package advertising deal. Know that these marketing trip package companies are not at all equal.
After the let down of our current remain at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I just got off the phone from trying to reserve the rest of our trip bundle with them (a long time in Florida). Let’s simply state that will not be happening. We are simply going to forget and eat the cost about it.
From here on out, we will be scheduling holiday bundles through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Definitely, you’ve seen the Facebook sponsored posts. If you click over to their site, you will see that it has lots of the most inexpensive vacation packages 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 first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was remarkable. Perhaps the Dreams spoiled us. This location was off-hook. It was everything we had wished for and then some.
One fast note … We have actually only utilized BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Reasoning informs me that not every resort holiday bundle is going to supply a similar experience. It really is all going to boil down to the research you put in.
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Researching the residential or commercial properties provided on BookVIP can be a little a difficulty. They don’t market the actual name of the resorts. Instead, they utilize phony names. If you truly want to sleuth out the location 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 considering. We didn’t trouble going that far. There was plenty of info on the BookVIP website to help us feel comfortable with making our booking.
You know ahead of time if the dates you want to take a trip are offered. There is time to compare the dining establishments and features. This is a big contrast to the marketing vacation plan sales calls I will talk about in the next section.
Simply be prepared for a few extra resort fees and taxes when you are ready to make your reservation with BookVIP. Our $599 for 5 days/4 nights at a Cancun all inclusive expense around $720 after whatever was said and done. In our case, part of the service charge was to cover pointers for the resort staff. After the experience we had, we found this to be well worth it.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Plus Phone Number
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the best. If this had been our very first experience, we most likely would not have actually taken part in another marketing deal. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our very first promotional resort stay, we began getting phone calls using holiday plans to various destinations. That is how we wound up with a holiday plan 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. State no adequate times and they will keep dropping the cost to where it actually sounds like a great offer. There isn’t much time to research the getaway homes they are offering.
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 (hey there, sailboat shopping!). So we shot and bought a package. Utilizing it, that is a whole different story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it easy to really utilize the vacation time. There is a great deal of small print that makes travel preparation really hard and potentially a lot more pricey. They do not expose these details during the sales call.
THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only just book dates 45-90 days ahead of time if YOU BUY A VACATION PACKAGE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS. Okay, reasonable enough.
However, when you call to ask for your preferred dates, they need you to complete a long form requiring 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 stay at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel very troublesome.
Preparation economical flights, or available Airbnb remains in combination with your Premier Travel Resorts trip package is really tough. In our case, the Airbnb we wished to remain at after our remain at the resort was scheduled 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 requires that those stays be back to back or one month apart. So, in our case, utilizing them on either end of an organization journey we had actually prepared was not permitted.
We utilized the Cancun portion of our vacation bundle, but we won’t 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 properties that they desired to offer us on, however rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the guys at the good home informed us they called it.
Now, to be fair, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one restaurant that was included in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you ignore the air conditioner dripping into our food) was in fact a good experience. They changed up the menu every night, including foods from various parts of Mexico. And the personnel was remarkable. Extremely friendly and accommodating. And extremely going to help us with our Spanish.
Once over the shock of the difference in the sort of location we thought we would be staying, we took advantage of it. We met some nice individuals. 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 reduced prices. No biggie. We feel like that is worth it.
Premier Travel Resorts, nevertheless, needs that you attend an advertising presentation during each stay. When they sold us the package, this is various from what we were informed. A two-hour sales pitch when you are staying someplace for just 2 nights is a huge piece of time. They sold us four various stays, that implies up to 8 hours of moderately high-pressure sales! No thanks.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY TIRADE