Invest less, take a trip more … right?! If you like to make your vacation travel dollar stretch, then like us, you may discover yourself thinking about a vacation bundle promotional deal. Know that these advertising trip package companies are not at all equal.
After the let down of our current remain at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I simply left the phone from trying to book the rest of our vacation bundle with them (some time in Florida). Let’s just say that will not be taking place. We are just going to forget and consume the expense about it.
From here on out, we will be booking trip packages through BookVIP. If you click over to their site, you will see that it is complete of the least expensive getaway packages to some of the most popular locations.
Our very first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was fantastic. Perhaps the Dreams ruined us.
One fast note … We have actually just utilized BookVIP one time, at one high-end resort in Cancun. Reasoning informs me that not every resort holiday plan is going to offer a comparable experience. It truly is all going to come down to the research you put in.
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Investigating the homes provided on BookVIP can be a bit of an obstacle. They don’t market 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 pictures will reveal the real identity of the home you are considering. We didn’t trouble going that far. There was lots of information on the BookVIP site to assist us feel comfortable with making our reservation.
You understand ahead of time if the dates you desire to take a trip are offered. There is time to compare the amenities and restaurants. This is a huge contrast to the promotional holiday package sales calls I will talk about in the next area.
Simply be prepared for a couple of additional resort fees and taxes when you are ready to make your appointment with BookVIP. Our $599 for 5 days/4 nights at a Cancun all inclusive expense around $720 after everything was stated and done. In our case, part of the surcharge was to cover ideas for the resort personnel. After the experience we had, we discovered this to be well worth it.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Punta Cana Bookvip
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the very best. We really likely would not have actually gotten involved in another marketing offer if this had actually been our first experience. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first marketing resort stay, we started getting call providing holiday plans to different locations. That is how we ended 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. Say no enough times and they will keep dropping the rate to where it really seems like a good deal. If they catch your interest and you choose to buy, it is needed that you do so before completion of the phone call. There isn’t much time to look into the getaway residential or commercial properties they are providing. You might have a couple of seconds to quickly pull up some pictures however that is about it. A picture is worth a thousand words, however not worth nearly as much as having the ability to check out a couple of reviews.
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 bundle. However using it, that is a whole different story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to in fact utilize the getaway time. There is a great deal of small print that makes travel preparation really difficult and potentially a lot more costly. They do not expose these information throughout 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 ACQUIRE A VACATION BUNDLE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS. Okay, fair enough.
However, when you contact us to ask for your preferred dates, they need you to fill out a long kind needing all the info that they already have. You then have to wait about a week to see if your dates are even readily available. Unless your itinerary will just consist of your remain at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel extremely bothersome.
Preparation inexpensive flights, or readily available Airbnb stays in combination with your Premier Travel Resorts getaway plan is very challenging. In our case, the Airbnb we wanted to remain at after our stay at the resort was scheduled 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 needs that those stays be back to back or 1 month apart. In our case, utilizing them on either end of a business trip we had prepared was not enabled.
We utilized the Cancun part 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 dirty, the toilet was cracked, the lights flickered, and that is simply the start. You see, they put us up, not in among the high-end homes that they wished to sell us on, but rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the men at the good property informed us they called it. For real.
Now, to be reasonable, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one dining establishment that was consisted of in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you overlook the a/c leaking into our food) was actually a good experience. They altered the menu every night, including foods from various parts of Mexico. And the personnel was amazing. Very friendly and accommodating. And extremely happy to help us with our Spanish.
Once over the shock of the distinction in the kind of location we thought we would be staying, we made the most of it. And chose up our rental car a couple days early to go off and check out the area.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts require that you attend a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their discounted rates. No biggie. We feel like that is worth it.
Premier Travel Resorts, however, requires that you participate in a marketing discussion throughout each stay. This is different from what we were told when they offered us the plan.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY RANT