Global Escapes reviews and complaints
FRAUD
I purchased a membership with GlobalEscapes back in November of 2006 for a little over 5, 000.00$. I have not been able to acquire accommodations at any vacation site I want to travel to. I have not used this travel and vacation once! I am so upset. If anyone knows of a law suit, please contact me at [protected]. I have been trying to travel to South and Central America, but every site is all inclusive, and I was never told they would all be that way when I purchased this vacation package. This has got to be against the law.
Country of complaint: United States
Address: San Antonio, Texas
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
Fraud and cheating
I purchased a membership with GlobalEscapes back in November of 2006 for 7, 245.00$. I have not been able to acquire accommodations at the places that I or my husband or the two of us travel. We travel all over the world frequently but somehow, there is never anything available when we are 'on the road'.
Finally we tried recently to book a mini vacation on a cruise out of Galveston, after all, we have 3000$ in cruise rewards! The end result for a 7 day cruise would've been a grand total savings from Global Escapes for... 84.00! out of a 2500.00$ cruise.
So, I thought, let me call my travel manager (as told by them to do for help). I pulled out my global escapes binder, see the business cards for Steve Nalty and Billy Brown, dial the [protected] # and surprise, 'no longer in service'. So, I call the 800 #, no live person to talk to, yet. I did use the short notice getaway once, stayed in an off beat place in Florida (all that was available). When I think what I could have used the 7245.00 + 200.00/yr added membership fees (total 7645.00) for I feel sick.
I thought maybe we can sell this membership, so as I started to investigate the possibility of that. I came upon the BBB complaints and these ripoff complaints as well. I won't spread this poor business practice to any other unknowing soul. We now will go through the belabored hoops to cancel our membership. I see from others, this is not accomplished by merely stopping payments like they said so I'll just get the registered letters in the mail.
Thanks to all who have written. I learned a lot from all of you and will never let myself fall for this travel club scam again.
Company Business Name: Global Escapes
Country of complaint: United States
Website: global-escapes.net
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
I purchase it May 1 2006 to go traveling.
I attempted to use it several times and in 2003 I have attempted to contact them 3 times no return phone calls. Now they said our account has expired we owe them 200.00. We have this amount 2006 but
We cannot get in touch with company to use it.
I hope we can resolve the situation. Never havv be d I befnable to use it or get anyone to help with it.i feel scammed.
Global Escapes is now doing business as the Water is Blue or Blue Water. Beware of this scam for which you pay 4-8K and an annual maintenance fee but can never book what you want when you want it. They are most unhelpful and Monterrey Financial, their financial service company, is no better. Do yourself a favor and stay away from them. IF anyone can get a class action lawyer to get a suit together, I am in!
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My wife and I purchased a Global Escapes package in 2006 and every time I have ried to use them they could not help us at all. I always found cheaper air fair, car rental, motel, travel, etc. over the internet. They make it sound so good and promise "pennies on the dollar" travel and vacation but never deliver. Stay away from them or get scammed like us..If anyone knows of lawsuits or other action that we can take against them to get the money back that we have lost in this scam;please contact Rick at [protected]
We are in the complete same boat. Our local affliate "Steel Town Services" in Pittsburgh that sold us the membership is no longer in business. I cannot find a live person to talk to anywhere! We can't even access the website anymore because the people that sold us the membership went out of business without any notification to us. I've contacted Globalescapes.net and cannot get a response as to what is supposed to happen when the third party vendor that sold us the membership goes out of business. What a scam. So pissed. Have you gotten any where with the company? Our contact information is stangmt@upmc.edu. Chris and Mike