We are deal hunters. Spend less, take a trip more … right?!Jungle Book Vip… If you like to make your vacation travel dollar stretch, then like us, you might find yourself thinking about a holiday bundle marketing offer. But you need to be prepared. Know that these marketing holiday plan business are not at all equal.
After the let down of our recent remain at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I simply left the phone from trying to book the rest of our vacation plan with them (a long time in Florida). Let’s just state that will not be happening. We are simply going to eat the expense and forget about it.
From here on out, we will be reserving trip bundles through BookVIP. Here’s why …
Undoubtedly, you’ve seen the Facebook sponsored posts. If you click over to their site, you will see that it has plenty of the most inexpensive trip bundles to a few of the most popular destinations. They have some seriously glamorous looking stays all over the world at some crazy great rates.
Our very first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was incredible. Maybe the Dreams ruined us.
One quick note … We have only used BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Logic tells me that not every resort getaway package is going to provide a similar experience. It really is all going to come down to the research you put in.
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Looking into the homes provided on BookVIP can be a bit of a difficulty. They don’t promote the real name of the resorts. Rather, they utilize phony names. If you actually desire to sleuth out the place you will be staying a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the images will reveal the real identity of the property you are considering. We didn’t trouble going that far. There was lots of details on the BookVIP site to help us feel comfy with making our booking.
What we love about reserving with BookVIP? You are on your own schedule. No sales calls, no pressure. Book when you have done your research and you are ready. You will know what you are getting. If the dates you desire to take a trip are offered, you know ahead of time. There is time to compare the facilities and dining establishments. This is a huge contrast to the promotional getaway package sales calls I will talk about in the next area.
When you are all set to make your reservation with BookVIP, simply be prepared for a couple of extra resort costs and taxes. In our case, part of the additional charge was to cover pointers for the resort personnel.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Jungle Book Vip
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 taken part in another advertising offer. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first advertising resort stay, we began getting phone calls offering getaway packages to different destinations. That is how we ended up with a vacation plan 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 scenario unless you simply hang up. State no sufficient times and they will keep dropping the price to where it actually sounds like a good offer. There isn’t much time to look into the holiday residential or commercial properties they are using.
They drew us in with a stay in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the proximity to Belize) and a long time in Florida (hi, sailboat shopping!). We pulled the trigger and bought a bundle. Using it, that is a whole various story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to actually use the holiday time. There is a great deal of small print that makes travel preparation extremely hard and potentially a lot more costly. They do not expose these information during the sales call.
THIS IS WHAT YOU MUST BE PREPARED FOR …
You can only just book dates 45-90 days ahead of time if YOU ACQUIRE A GETAWAY BUNDLE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS. Okay, reasonable enough.
When you call to ask for your preferred dates, they need you to fill out a long kind needing all the details that they already have. You then need to wait about a week to see if your dates are even readily available. Unless your travel plans will just consist of your remain at their resort, this makes planning the rest of your travel extremely bothersome.
Planning budget friendly flights, or readily available Airbnb stays in combination with your Premier Travel Resorts vacation package is really difficult. In our case, the Airbnb we wished to stay at after our stay at the resort was reserved by the time Premier Travel Resorts got back 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, utilizing them on either end of an organization trip we had planned was not enabled.
We used the Cancun part of our trip bundle, however 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 luxury homes that they desired to sell us on, however rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the guys at the good property informed us they called it.
Now, to be fair, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one restaurant that was consisted of in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you overlook the air conditioner dripping into our food) was really a good experience. They changed up the menu every night, featuring foods from various parts of Mexico. And the personnel was fantastic. Very friendly and accommodating. And extremely going to help us with our Spanish.
Once over the shock of the difference in the type of location we thought we would be remaining, we made the most of it. We met some great individuals. Consumed some fantastic food. Took some good strolls on the golf course. And got our rental vehicle a couple days early to go off and check out the location.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts need that you attend a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their affordable prices. No biggie. We seem like that is worth it.
Premier Travel Resorts, nevertheless, requires that you go to an advertising presentation during each stay. This is various from what we were told when they offered us the package. A two-hour sales pitch when you are staying somewhere for just 2 nights is a substantial piece of time. They sold us four different stays, that implies as much as eight hours of moderately high-pressure sales! No thanks.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY TIRADE