Invest less, take a trip more … right?! If you like to make your getaway travel dollar stretch, then like us, you may discover yourself considering a getaway package marketing deal. Know that these advertising getaway bundle business are not at all equivalent.
After the let down of our recent stay at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I simply got off the phone from trying to book the remainder of our getaway plan with them (a long time in Florida). Let’s simply state 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 scheduling trip packages through BookVIP. If you click over to their site, you will see that it is full of the cheapest getaway plans to some of the most popular locations.
Our very first all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was amazing. Maybe the Dreams ruined us. This location was off-hook. It was everything we had wished for and after that some.
One quick note … We have only used BookVIP one time, at one luxury resort in Cancun. Reasoning informs me that not every resort getaway plan is going to offer a similar experience. It really is all going to boil down to the research study you put in.
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Investigating the homes used on BookVIP can be a little a challenge. They do not promote the actual name of the resorts. Rather, they utilize phony names. If you truly want to sleuth out the place you will be staying a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the photos will reveal the true identity of the property you are thinking about. We didn’t bother going that far. There was lots of details on the BookVIP website to help us feel comfortable with making our appointment.
What we love about scheduling with BookVIP? You are on your own schedule. No sales calls, no pressure. Reserve when you have actually done your research study and you are ready. You will understand what you are getting. You understand ahead of time if the dates you wish to travel are available. There is time to compare the restaurants and amenities. This is a huge contrast to the marketing trip plan sales calls I will talk about in the next section.
Just be prepared for a couple of additional resort fees and taxes when you are prepared to make your booking with BookVIP. Our $599 for 5 days/4 nights at a Cancun all inclusive cost around $720 after everything was said and done. In our case, part of the additional charge was to cover pointers for the resort personnel. After the experience we had, we discovered this to be well worth it.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Punta Cana All Inclusive
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 advertising offer if this had been our very first experience. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first advertising resort stay, we began getting phone calls using vacation bundles to numerous destinations. That is how we ended up with a getaway plan including our newest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple short remain in Florida and in other places.
These travel sales calls are always a high-pressure scenario unless you simply hang up. State no sufficient times and they will keep dropping the rate to where it in fact sounds like an excellent offer. There isn’t much time to look into the getaway residential or commercial properties 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!). We pulled the trigger and bought a package. Utilizing it, that is a whole different story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to really utilize the getaway time. There is a lot of fine print that makes travel preparation very tough and potentially a lot more costly. They do not reveal these information during the sales call.
IF YOU PURCHASE A VACATION PACKAGE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS, THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR …
You can just book your dates 45-90 days ahead of time. Okay, reasonable enough.
When you call to ask for your preferred dates, they need you to fill out a long form needing all the info that they already have. You then need to wait about a week to see if your dates are even offered. Unless your itinerary will only include your stay at their resort, this makes planning the rest of your travel extremely inconvenient.
Preparation inexpensive flights, or offered Airbnb remains in conjunction with your Premier Travel Resorts vacation package is very hard. In our case, the Airbnb we wanted to remain at after our stay at the resort was booked by the time Premier Travel Resorts returned to us.
Our package consisted of a remain in Orlando and a stay in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts needs that those stays be back to back or 1 month apart. In our case, utilizing them on either end of a business journey we had planned was not allowed.
We used the Cancun part of our holiday package, but 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 luxury homes that they desired to sell us on, however rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the guys at the good property informed us they called it.
The one dining establishment that was consisted of in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you ignore the air conditioner dripping into our food) was in fact a great experience. They changed up the menu every night, featuring foods from various parts of Mexico. And very ready to assist us with our Spanish.
Once over the shock of the difference in the sort of location we believed we would be staying, we took advantage of it. We satisfied some nice individuals. Ate some excellent food. Took some great strolls on the golf course. And got our rental car a couple days early to go off and explore the location.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts need that you go to a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their discounted rates. No biggie. We seem like that is worth it.
Premier Travel Resorts, nevertheless, needs that you attend an advertising discussion throughout each stay. This is various from what we were told when they sold us the bundle.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY TIRADE