Invest less, travel more … right?! If you like to make your getaway travel dollar stretch, then like us, you might discover yourself considering a vacation bundle promotional offer. Know that these marketing holiday plan business are not at all equivalent.
After the pulled down of our recent stay at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I just got off the phone from attempting to book the rest of our holiday plan with them (some time in Florida). Let’s just say that will not be occurring. We are just going to eat the cost and forget about it.
From here on out, we will be reserving vacation plans through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Surely, you have actually seen the Facebook sponsored posts. If you click over to their site, you will see that it is full of the least expensive holiday bundles to some of the most popular destinations. They have some seriously luxurious looking stays all over the world at some crazy great prices.
Our first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was fantastic. Possibly the Dreams spoiled us. This place was off-hook. It was everything we had actually expected and then some.
One quick note … We have just used BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Logic tells me that not every resort getaway plan is going to supply a similar experience. It actually is all going to come down to the research you put in.
Is booking Very Important Person a timeshare?
They don’t advertise the actual name of the resorts. If you actually want to sleuth out the location you will be remaining a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the images will reveal the true identity of the home you are thinking about. There was plenty of info on the BookVIP site to help us feel comfortable with making our booking.
What we like about reserving with BookVIP? You are on your own schedule. No sales calls, no pressure. Schedule when you have done your research and you are ready. You will understand what you are getting. You understand ahead of time if the dates you wish to take a trip are offered. There is time to compare the dining establishments and facilities. This is a big contrast to the marketing getaway bundle sales calls I will talk about in the next area.
When you are prepared to make your appointment with BookVIP, just be prepared for a few extra resort fees and taxes. In our case, part of the extra charge was to cover tips for the resort staff.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Riverwalk
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the very best. If this had actually been our very first experience, we very likely would not have actually participated in another promotional offer. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our very first marketing resort stay, we began getting phone calls using vacation plans to various locations. That is how we wound up with a vacation package including our newest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple short stays in Florida and somewhere else.
These travel sales calls are constantly a high-pressure scenario unless you simply hang up. Say no sufficient times and they will keep dropping the rate to where it really sounds like a good deal. There isn’t much time to look into the holiday residential or commercial properties they are offering.
They drew us in with a stay in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the distance to Belize) and a long time in Florida (hello, sailboat shopping!). We pulled the trigger and bought a package. But using it, that is a whole various story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it easy to really utilize the vacation time. There is a lot of small print that makes travel preparation very hard and possibly a lot more pricey. They do not expose these details during the sales call.
THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only reserve your dates 45-90 days ahead of time if YOU ACQUIRE A TRIP PLAN WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS. Okay, fair enough.
Nevertheless, when you call to request for your preferred dates, they need you to submit a long form requiring all the details that they currently have. You then have to wait about a week to see if your dates are even available. Unless your travel plans will only consist of your remain at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel really bothersome.
Planning cost effective flights, or readily available Airbnb remains in conjunction with your Premier Travel Resorts vacation bundle is extremely challenging. In our case, the Airbnb we wished to stay at after our remain at the resort was booked by the time Premier Travel Resorts returned to us.
Our bundle consisted of a stay in Orlando and a stay in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts requires that those stays be back to back or thirty days apart. In our case, using them on either end of a business trip we had planned was not permitted.
We utilized the Cancun portion of our trip plan, however we will not be utilizing the rest of it.
THE BAIT AND SWITCH CANCUN ‘ALL INCLUSIVE’ THROUGH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS
The space was unclean, the toilet was cracked, the lights flickered, and that is simply the beginning. You see, they put us up, not in one of the luxury residential or commercial properties that they wanted to sell us on, but rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the people at the great residential or commercial property told us they called it. For real.
Now, to be reasonable, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one restaurant that was consisted of in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you neglect the ac system dripping into our food) was really a nice experience. They altered the menu every night, featuring foods from different parts of Mexico. And the personnel was remarkable. Really friendly and accommodating. And really ready to assist us with our Spanish.
When over the shock of the difference in the kind of place we believed we would be staying, we made the many of it. 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 attend a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their discounted prices. No biggie. We feel like that deserves it.
Premier Travel Resorts, however, needs that you go to a marketing presentation throughout each stay. This is different from what we were informed when they sold us the package.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY RANT