Spend less, take a trip more … right?! If you like to make your vacation travel dollar stretch, then like us, you may find yourself thinking about a vacation package marketing offer. Know that these marketing trip plan business are not at all equal.
After the pulled down of our recent remain at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I just left the phone from attempting to book the remainder of our trip bundle with them (some time in Florida). Let’s simply state that will not be happening. We are just going to consume the expense and forget about it.
From here on out, we will be scheduling getaway bundles through BookVIP. If you click over to their website, you will see that it is full of the most inexpensive getaway plans to some of the most popular locations.
Our very first all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was fantastic. Maybe the Dreams spoiled us. This location was off-hook. It was everything we had hoped for and then some.
One quick note … We have just used BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Reasoning tells me that not every resort getaway package is going to supply a similar 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 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 pictures will expose the real identity of the property you are thinking about. There was plenty of info on the BookVIP site to help us feel comfortable with making our booking.
What we enjoy about reserving with BookVIP? You are on your own schedule. No sales calls, no pressure. Book when you have done your research study and you are ready. You will know what you are getting. You know ahead of time if the dates you wish to travel are available. There is time to compare the facilities and restaurants. This is a huge contrast to the marketing holiday bundle sales calls I will discuss in the next area.
When you are prepared to make your reservation with BookVIP, just be prepared for a few additional resort charges and taxes. In our case, part of the extra charge was to cover pointers for the resort staff.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Bookvip Taxes
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the best. We really likely would not have actually gotten involved in another marketing offer if this had actually been our very first experience. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our very first promotional resort stay, we began getting phone calls using getaway packages to numerous destinations. That is how we ended up with a holiday plan including our newest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple short stays in Florida and elsewhere.
These travel sales calls are constantly a high-pressure scenario unless you simply hang up. Say no enough times and they will keep dropping the cost to where it in fact seems like a good deal. It is needed that you do so prior to the end of the phone call if they capture your interest and you decide to acquire. There isn’t much time to investigate the trip properties they are using. You may have a few seconds to quickly pull up some photos but that is about it. A photo is worth a thousand words, but unworthy almost as much as having the ability to check out a couple of evaluations.
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 (hi, sailboat shopping!). So we shot and purchased a plan. But using it, that is a whole different story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to actually utilize the holiday time. There is a lot of fine print that makes travel preparation really tough and possibly a lot more expensive. They don’t reveal these information throughout the sales call.
THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only just schedule dates 45-90 days ahead of time if YOU ACQUIRE A HOLIDAY PLAN WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS. Okay, fair enough.
However, when you contact us to ask for your favored dates, they require you to fill out a long type needing all the details that they currently have. You then have 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 very inconvenient.
Preparation inexpensive flights, or readily available Airbnb stays in conjunction with your Premier Travel Resorts holiday bundle is really challenging. In our case, the Airbnb we wanted to remain at after our remain at the resort was reserved by the time Premier Travel Resorts returned to us.
Our plan consisted of a stay in Orlando and a remain in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts requires that those stays be back to back or 1 month apart. So, in our case, utilizing them on either end of a company trip we had prepared was not enabled.
We utilized the Cancun part of our holiday plan, but we won’t be utilizing 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 sell us on, but rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the people at the good home told us they called it.
The one restaurant that was consisted of in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you ignore the air conditioner leaking into our food) was actually a nice experience. They changed up the menu every night, including foods from various parts of Mexico. And really ready to help 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 vehicle a couple days early to go off and check out the area.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts require that you participate in a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their affordable rates. No biggie. We feel like that deserves it.
Premier Travel Resorts, nevertheless, requires that you participate in a promotional discussion throughout each stay. This is different from what we were informed when they sold us the bundle. When you are remaining someplace for only 2 nights is a huge portion of time, a two-hour sales pitch. They offered us four various stays, that implies up to 8 hours of reasonably high-pressure sales! No thanks.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY RANT