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 plan marketing offer. Know that these marketing trip plan business are not at all equivalent.
After the pulled down of our current stay at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I just got off the phone from trying to book the remainder of our vacation plan with them (some time in Florida). Let’s simply say that will not be taking place. We are just going to consume the cost and forget about it.
From here on out, we will be scheduling getaway plans through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Surely, you have actually seen the Facebook sponsored posts. If you click over to their website, you will see that it has lots of the most affordable holiday bundles to a few of the most popular locations. They have some seriously elegant looking stays all over the world at some crazy great rates.
Our first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was incredible. Maybe the Dreams spoiled us.
One fast note … We have only utilized BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Logic tells me that not every resort trip bundle is going to offer a comparable experience. It actually is all going to boil down to the research you put in.
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Looking into the homes used on BookVIP can be a little a challenge. They do not advertise the actual name of the resorts. Instead, they use fake names. If you truly want to sleuth out the place you will be remaining a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the photos will expose the real identity of the property you are thinking about. We didn’t bother going that far. There was a lot of details on the BookVIP site to help us feel comfy with making our reservation.
You know ahead of time if the dates you desire to travel are readily available. There is time to compare the dining establishments and features. This is a huge contrast to the marketing getaway bundle sales calls I will talk about in the next section.
When you are all set to make your booking with BookVIP, just be prepared for a few extra resort charges and taxes. In our case, part of the additional charge was to cover suggestions for the resort personnel.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Jemar Tisby Bookvip
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 most likely would not have actually participated in another advertising deal. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first promotional resort stay, we began getting phone calls providing getaway plans to different destinations. That is how we wound up with a vacation plan including our latest Cancun all inclusive plus a couple short remain in Florida and somewhere else.
These travel sales calls are always a high-pressure circumstance unless you simply hang up. State no sufficient times and they will keep dropping the price to where it in fact sounds like an excellent deal. There isn’t much time to look into the vacation properties they are using.
They drew us in with a remain 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 plan. Using it, that is an entire different story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to really use the trip time. There is a great deal of small print that makes travel planning very difficult and potentially a lot more pricey. They do not expose these information during the sales call.
THIS IS WHAT YOU OUGHT TO BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only reserve schedule dates 45-90 days ahead of time if YOU BUY A VACATION BUNDLE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS. Okay, reasonable enough.
Nevertheless, when you call to request for your preferred dates, they need you to complete a long kind needing all the information that they currently have. You then need to wait about a week to see if your dates are even offered. Unless your itinerary will just include your stay at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel very inconvenient.
Preparation affordable flights, or readily available Airbnb stays in combination with your Premier Travel Resorts getaway bundle is very difficult. 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 needs that those stays be back to back or thirty days apart. So, in our case, utilizing them on either end of a business trip we had actually prepared was not enabled.
We utilized the Cancun portion of our trip plan, however 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 cracked, the lights flickered, which is simply the start. You see, they put us up, not in one of the luxury homes that they wished to sell us on, however rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the men at the good home informed us they called it. For real.
The one restaurant that was included in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you neglect the air conditioner dripping into our food) was really a nice experience. They altered up the menu every night, featuring foods from various parts of Mexico. And extremely prepared to help us with our Spanish.
As soon as over the shock of the difference 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 explore the location.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts require that you participate in a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their reduced rates. No biggie. We seem like that is worth it.
Premier Travel Resorts, nevertheless, requires that you attend an advertising discussion throughout each stay. When they offered us the package, this is different from what we were informed. When you are staying someplace for just 2 nights is a substantial chunk of time, a two-hour sales pitch. They sold us four various stays, that indicates approximately 8 hours of reasonably high-pressure sales! No thanks.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY TIRADE