Spend less, travel more … right?! If you like to make your getaway travel dollar stretch, then like us, you may find yourself considering a trip plan advertising offer. Know that these advertising getaway bundle companies are not at all equivalent.
After the let down of our current remain at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I just left the phone from trying to schedule the remainder of our vacation bundle with them (some time in Florida). Let’s simply say that will not be happening. We are simply going to eat the expense and forget about it.
From here on out, we will be scheduling getaway bundles through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Certainly, you have actually seen the Facebook sponsored posts. You will see that it is full of the least expensive holiday bundles to some of the most popular locations if you click over to their site. They have some seriously luxurious looking stays all over the world at some crazy great costs.
Our first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was remarkable. Perhaps the Dreams ruined us. This place was off-hook. It was everything we had wished for and then some.
One quick note … We have actually only utilized BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Reasoning tells me that not every resort vacation package is going to provide a comparable experience. It really is all going to come down to the research study you put in.
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They do not advertise the real name of the resorts. If you truly desire to sleuth out the location you will be remaining a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the pictures will reveal the real identity of the property you are thinking about. There was plenty of information on the BookVIP site to help us feel comfortable with making our booking.
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 marketing holiday package sales calls I will talk about in the next section.
When you are ready to make your appointment with BookVIP, just be prepared for a few extra resort fees 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 additional charge was to cover tips for the resort staff. After the experience we had, we found this to be well worth it.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Review 2018
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the very best. If this had been our very first experience, we likely would not have actually taken part in another promotional deal. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first advertising resort stay, we started getting call using getaway packages to different destinations. That is how we ended up with a getaway bundle including our most recent Cancun all inclusive plus a couple short stays in Florida and somewhere else.
These travel sales calls are constantly a high-pressure circumstance unless you just hang up. Say no adequate times and they will keep dropping the rate to where it in fact seems like a good deal. If they record your interest and you decide to acquire, it is needed that you do so prior to completion of the telephone call. There isn’t much time to look into the holiday homes they are using. You might have a few seconds to rapidly pull up some photos but that is about it. A photo deserves a thousand words, but not worth nearly as much as being able to check out a few evaluations.
They drew us in with a remain in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the proximity to Belize) and some time in Florida (hello, sailboat shopping!). We pulled the trigger and bought a plan. Utilizing it, that is an entire various story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to actually utilize the trip time. There is a lot of fine print that makes travel preparation really tough and possibly a lot more expensive. They do not reveal these details throughout the sales call.
IF YOU ACQUIRE A TRIP BUNDLE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS, THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only schedule your dates 45-90 days ahead of time. Okay, fair enough.
However, when you call to request your favored dates, they require you to submit a long form needing all the info that they already have. You then have to wait about a week to see if your dates are even offered. Unless your itinerary will only consist of your stay at their resort, this makes planning the rest of your travel really bothersome.
Preparation economical flights, or offered Airbnb remains in combination with your Premier Travel Resorts vacation package is extremely tough. In our case, the Airbnb we wanted to stay at after our remain at the resort was scheduled by the time Premier Travel Resorts got back to us.
Our bundle consisted of a remain in Orlando and a remain in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts needs that those stays be back to back or thirty days apart. In our case, using them on either end of an organization trip we had planned was not enabled.
We used the Cancun portion of our getaway package, however 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 cracked, the lights flickered, which is simply the beginning. You see, they put us up, not in among the luxury homes that they wished to sell us on, but rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the men at the nice home told us they called it. For real.
Now, to be reasonable, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one restaurant that was included in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you neglect the ac system dripping into our food) was in fact a great 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 extremely happy to assist us with our Spanish.
When over the shock of the distinction in the kind of location we believed we would be remaining, we made the many of it. And selected 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 go to a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their affordable costs. No biggie. We seem like that deserves it.
Premier Travel Resorts, nevertheless, requires that you participate in an advertising discussion during each stay. This is different from what we were told when they offered us the plan.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY TIRADE