We are deal hunters. Spend less, travel more … right?!Review Bookvip… If you like to make your vacation travel dollar stretch, then like us, you might find yourself thinking about a vacation package advertising deal. However you need to be prepared. Know that these marketing vacation package companies are not equivalent.
After the pulled down of our recent remain at the Cancun all inclusive through Premier Travel Resorts, I simply got off the phone from attempting to reserve the remainder of our getaway plan with them (some time in Florida). Let’s just say that will not be happening. We are just going to eat the cost and forget about it.
From here on out, we will be scheduling getaway bundles through BookVIP. If you click over to their site, you will see that it is full of the least expensive trip plans to some of the most popular destinations.
Our very first ever all inclusive experience was with BookVIP and it was remarkable. Maybe the Dreams spoiled us.
One quick note … We have actually only used BookVIP one time, at one luxury resort in Cancun. Logic informs me that not every resort holiday package 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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They do not promote the actual name of the resorts. If you actually want to sleuth out the place you will be remaining a bit of investigative work on Google to match up the images will reveal the true identity of the residential or commercial property you are thinking about. There was plenty of details on the BookVIP website to help us feel comfy with making our appointment.
What we love about booking with BookVIP? You are on your own schedule. No sales calls, no pressure. Schedule when you have done your research study and you are ready. You will understand what you are getting. You understand ahead of time if the dates you wish to travel are available. There is time to compare the features and dining establishments. This is a big contrast to the marketing trip package sales calls I will talk about in the next area.
When you are ready to make your appointment with BookVIP, just be gotten ready for a couple of additional resort fees and taxes. Our $599 for 5 days/4 nights at a Cancun all inclusive cost around $720 after everything was said and done. In our case, part of the added fee was to cover suggestions for the resort personnel. After the experience we had, we found this to be well worth it.
OUR EXPERIENCE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS Review Bookvip
In contrast to BookVIP, our experience with Premier Travel Resorts (out of Florida) was not the very best. We extremely likely would not have gotten involved in another marketing offer if this had been our first experience. It was that bad.
Are you on the calling lists? After our first marketing resort stay, we started getting phone calls providing getaway plans to different locations. That is how we ended up with a trip bundle including our most recent Cancun all inclusive plus a couple brief remain in Florida and somewhere else.
These travel sales calls are constantly a high-pressure scenario unless you just hang up. Say no adequate times and they will keep dropping the rate to where it in fact sounds like a bargain. It is needed that you do so before the end of the phone call if they catch your interest and you decide to acquire. There isn’t much time to research the getaway properties they are offering. You may have a couple of seconds to quickly pull up some photos however that is about it. A picture is worth a thousand words, however unworthy nearly as much as having the ability to read a few evaluations.
They drew us in with a remain in Cancun (which is convenient for us because of the distance to Belize) and some time in Florida (hello, sailboat shopping!). So we pulled the trigger and purchased a plan. Utilizing it, that is a whole different story.
Premier Travel Resorts does not make it simple to actually use the vacation time. There is a lot of fine print that makes travel preparation really hard and potentially a lot more costly. They do not reveal these information throughout the sales call.
IF YOU BUY A VACATION PACKAGE WITH PREMIER TRAVEL RESORTS, THIS IS WHAT YOU MUST BE PREPARED FOR …
You can just schedule your dates 45-90 days ahead of time. Okay, fair enough.
When you call to ask for your preferred dates, they require you to fill out a long form needing all the information that they currently have. You then have to wait about a week to see if your dates are even available. Unless your travel plans will just consist of your remain at their resort, this makes preparing the rest of your travel really inconvenient.
Preparation affordable flights, or offered Airbnb remains in combination with your Premier Travel Resorts trip plan is really difficult. In our case, the Airbnb we wished to remain at after our stay at the resort was reserved by the time Premier Travel Resorts returned to us.
Our plan included a stay in Orlando and a stay in Daytona Beach. Premier Travel Resorts requires that those stays be back to back or one month apart. In our case, using them on either end of a service journey we had prepared was not allowed.
We utilized the Cancun part of our getaway plan, however we won’t be using 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 properties that they wanted to offer us on, but rather at their ‘cemetary resort’. Seriously, that is what the people at the nice property told us they called it.
Now, to be fair, Laguna Suites wasn’t all bad. The one dining establishment that was included in our ‘all inclusive’ (if you neglect the a/c unit dripping into our food) was really a great experience. They changed up the menu every night, featuring foods from various parts of Mexico. And the staff was amazing. Really friendly and accommodating. And really ready to assist us with our Spanish.
Twice the shock of the difference in the sort of location we believed we would be staying, we took advantage of it. We satisfied some good people. Ate some terrific food. Took some great strolls on the golf course. And picked up our rental vehicle a couple days early to go off and explore the location.
THE SALES PITCH
Both BookVIP and Premier Travel Resorts need that you attend a 90-120 minute sales pitch to get their discounted rates. No biggie. We feel like that deserves it.
Premier Travel Resorts, nevertheless, needs that you attend a marketing presentation throughout each stay. This is various from what we were informed when they sold us the plan.
OK, THAT’S IT FOR MY RANT