Invest less, travel more … right?! If you like to make your trip travel dollar stretch, then like us, you may find yourself considering a trip plan advertising deal. Know that these advertising holiday bundle companies are not at all equivalent.
After the pulled down of our current stay at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I just left the phone from trying to book the rest of our holiday plan 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 booking holiday packages through BookVIP. If you click over to their website, you will see that it is full of the most inexpensive holiday packages 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 actually hoped for and after that some.
One fast note … We have actually just used BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Logic informs me that not every resort vacation bundle is going to offer a similar experience. It actually is all going to boil down to the research you put in.
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They don’t promote the real name of the resorts. If you truly desire to sleuth out the location you will be staying a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the pictures will reveal the true identity of the home you are thinking about. There was plenty of details on the BookVIP website to help us feel comfortable with making our appointment.
You know ahead of time if the dates you want to take a trip are readily available. There is time to compare the dining establishments and amenities. This is a huge contrast to the advertising vacation package sales calls I will talk about in the next section.
When you are prepared to make your reservation with BookVIP, just be prepared for a few extra resort charges and taxes. In our case, part of the additional charge was to cover tips for the resort staff.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Cozumel Palace Bookvip
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 likely would not have actually taken part in another marketing offer. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our very first advertising resort stay, we started getting phone calls offering getaway packages to various locations. That is how we wound up with a getaway bundle including our latest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple brief stays in Florida and in other places.
These travel sales calls are always a high-pressure circumstance unless you just hang up. State no adequate times and they will keep dropping the rate to where it actually sounds like a great offer. There isn’t much time to look into the getaway properties they are using.
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 (hey there, sailboat shopping!). We pulled the trigger and bought a package. Utilizing it, that is an entire various story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to in fact use the trip time. There is a lot of fine print that makes travel preparation very tough and potentially a lot more pricey. They do not expose these details throughout the sales call.
IF YOU PURCHASE A HOLIDAY PACKAGE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS, THIS IS WHAT YOU MUST BE PREPARED FOR …
You can just reserve your dates 45-90 days ahead of time. Okay, reasonable enough.
However, when you contact us to request your favored dates, they require you to submit a long kind requiring all the information that they already have. You then need to wait about a week to see if your dates are even offered. Unless your travel plans will just consist of your stay at their resort, this makes planning the rest of your travel really troublesome.
Preparation economical flights, or available Airbnb stays in conjunction with your Premier Travel Resorts getaway bundle is extremely hard. In our case, the Airbnb we wished to remain at after our stay 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 needs that those stays be back to back or one month apart. In our case, utilizing them on either end of a service trip we had prepared was not permitted.
We used the Cancun portion of our trip package, but we will not be using the rest of it.
THE BAIT AND SWITCH CANCUN ‘ALL INCLUSIVE’ THROUGH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS
The room was unclean, the toilet was chipped, the lights flickered, which is just the start. You see, they put us up, not in among the high-end homes that they wished to offer us on, however rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the people at the good home informed us they called it. Genuine.
Now, to be fair, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one dining establishment that was included in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you overlook the a/c unit dripping into our food) was in fact a good experience. They altered the menu every night, featuring foods from different parts of Mexico. And the staff was incredible. Really friendly and accommodating. And really going to assist us with our Spanish.
Once over the shock of the difference in the kind of place we thought we would be staying, 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 need that you go to a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their reduced rates. No biggie. We feel like that is worth it.
Premier Travel Resorts, nevertheless, needs that you attend an advertising presentation throughout each stay. When they sold us the package, this is various from what we were told. When you are remaining somewhere for just 2 nights is a huge chunk of time, a two-hour sales pitch. They offered us 4 different stays, that means as much as 8 hours of moderately high-pressure sales! No thanks.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY TIRADE