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Accor - Bad Accor Advantage Plus
I want to share my bad experience with Accor Advantage Plus. Hopefully others will not be a victim like me. It was started in a travel exhibition in Bangkok in 2008, where Accor group display their range of hotel. I was interested with the offer of a membership of Accor group, they said that they'll give a compliment voucher to stay one night in any...
Read full review of Accor and 19 commentsParadise Village - Deceitful Sales Practices
We attended the vacation club presentation at Paradise Village Resort in Nuevo Vallarta, we brought with us our children. Many employees commented on how wonderful the resort is for children and how Mexico in general is a very family friendly place. The first part of the presentation was an extensive tour of the resort with somebody named Ignacio...
Read full review of Paradise Village and 4 commentssandy shore motel/ gene arganese /cigar owner - horrible motel room & service!!!
HORRIBLE MOTEL!! HORRIBLE SERVICE!! RUN BY RUDE UNPROFESSIONAL PEOPLE!! THE OWNNER GENE ARGANESE IS NEVER THERE OR RETURNS CALLS!! THEY SAY HES ALWAYS OUT TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC FOR HIS CIGAR BUSINESS!! WELL IHIS MOTEL BUSINESS SUCKS!!i STAYED THERE WITH MY ELEVEN YEAR OLD DAUGHTER, THE BLINDS WERE HALF BROKEN ON ONE WINDOW THE OTHER SIDE TWO BLINDS BENT...
Read full review of sandy shore motel/ gene arganese /cigar ownerRoyal Elite - misrepresentation at sandos royal elite (scam)
Recently on our visit to paradise in mexico, our first visit anywhere outside of canada and us, we attended a, what was supposed to be a brief 90 minutes, presentation on a royal elite membership, it turned into hours... We were convinced, or more like coerced, into making the purchase. The following day we requested some additional information that had...
Read full review of Royal Elite and 8 commentsDestination Paradise Hawaii - Not delivering the services promised
I signed up for Destination Paradise $3000 package with information that I can get great discounts on vacation packages to places all over world. I requested to review the sample database of vacation packages before I signed up but was told the database was only available after I signed up. When I received my package login info and login to the website to...
Read full review of Destination Paradise Hawaii and 4 commentsRoyal Villas Resort at Mazatlan - Fraud at Royal Villas Mazatlan
While staying at the Royal Villa as the guest of an owner, we agreed (after several attempts to say no) to attend a 90 minute sales presentation. They promised us breakfast and to pay for one of our tours. We told them in no uncertain terms that we were not going to buy and that we were going to leave after 90 minutes. We signed a contract saying we would...
Read full review of Royal Villas Resort at Mazatlan and 6 commentsGlobal Exchange Vacation Club - Crappy company
Advertised as $100 gas rebate for attending Timeshare Presentation in Napa, CA on 12/22/07 for Global Exchange Vacation Club. We declined to purchase their Timeshare Membership and received a form for "gas coupons" for $100. After coupons in the mail, the details were to mail in a receipt for $20 for each month for 5 months. We followed the fine print...
Read full review of Global Exchange Vacation ClubMikael Frank Audebert - Kept our money
We semt Mikael Frank Audebert, CEO of VIP Escapes $6400 for his advertised trip to the Maldives. He cancelled the trip but kept all our money. Thereafter, we discovered the same thing happened to several others. Call Detective Pierstorff at the Altemonte Springs Police Department.
Read full review of Mikael Frank AudebertDisney Vacation Scam - Telephone Scam- Not Really Disney
I just discovered this website a few days ago and wanted to warn others of a scam I fell for when I was 18. I got a phone call in my first apt. from a woman who worked at "Disney Dream Vacations" or something like that. She said for $250.00 per person I have a free week at any of their park hotels, free park tickets and food. I only had to pay for my flight...
Read full review of Disney Vacation Scam and 24 commentsTorrenza Mazatlan - WARNING!!! Torrenza resort at Mazatlan is a fraud, don't buy !!
Please don’t ignore this message It’s has been very hard for us to get in touch with someone there, they are thieves and in addition they are cowards who do not have the courage to answer my emails At the presentation, Torrenza tried to sell us a timeshare and in order to do so, they guaranteed the purchase of our Mayan timeshare for 49, 900 USD and...
Read full review of Torrenza Mazatlan and 21 commentsEXECUTIVE TIMESHARE MARKETING/ TIMESHARE TRAVELS - FRAUD
I worked for this company for 2 weeks and it was a %100 scam. The company was owned by Jason Wall aka Jurgen Wall Husband of Lina Wall. Jason encuraged his sales reps to make false promises "anything to get the sale" as this company never sold or rented 1 single timeshare. This company folded and merged with Timeshare Travels which is the same scam under a...
Read full review of EXECUTIVE TIMESHARE MARKETING/ TIMESHARE TRAVELS and 4 commentsMonster Resorts Group/Monster Vacations Group - Beware- blatant scam
On our way to Myrtle Beach SC we stopped at the Welcome Center which we had done in years past knowing it was owned by either the City or the Chamber of Commerce; neither for profit. (Later we learned the Chamber of Commerce sold the Welcome Center to Mark Anthony Spaugy/ Monster Resorts Group/Monster Vacation Group.) While at the Welcome Center we accepted...
Read full review of Monster Resorts Group/Monster Vacations Group and 44 commentsGlobal Connections - Fraudulent company
For the promise of a free 3 or 4 day cruise plus free airfare for two, my wife and I attended a high-pressure sales pitch near Washington DC. The 'free' vacation required that we pay $35 'registration fee' each, which we did. We then got a registration packet that required another $4.95 to be sent to PTS Travel. We did that and got back our 'registration...
Read full review of Global Connections and 6 commentsTravelWeb.com - Unauthorized billing
After finding out about a death in the family, had to make reservations through Travel web.com, when I went online to make the reservations, I paid with my credit card, and I didn't receive a confirmation number from them, went on to another site as no confirmation number means no actual reservation, boked my room at another and got billed from them both...
Read full review of TravelWeb.com and 5 commentsDream Vacations International, Inc. - Scam
On June 2, 2009, my wife and I listened to a presentation by a young representative ("Zach") about the benefits of the Dream Vacations International, Inc. (DVI) travel club, a presentation hosted at Bentley Travel in Parsippany NJ. DVI purports to secure at a discount and resell, without markup, accommodations and trips sold by reputable travel...
Read full review of Dream Vacations International, Inc. and 12 commentsFree Hotel Stay Vouchers - Bad customer service, scams customers into paying redemption fee.
C & B Getaways, Inc, based in Oldsmar, Fl is just a scam!!! They offer "free hotel stay" vouchers and after you pay your redemption fee which is usually 29.00 then you only have 1 year to use the certificate with them, you are also submitted to certain limitations like, no booking on holidays, or special event dates, then it doesn't stop there, you only can...
Read full review of Free Hotel Stay Vouchersgreat vacations now - this company took my money and i haven`t heard from them since
I was making an order with Dual Action Cleanse. After completing business i was asked if i wanted to check out Great Vacations Now. I was put in contact with a woman named Darlene. She talked me into buying a vacation plan that included three different locations for 250.00 dollars. I`m a single male. I work in a remote location in Arizona.Getting out to...
Read full review of great vacations now and 7 commentsDreamworks Vacation Club - Fraudulent offer
Along with their affiliate, Mexico Paradise Getaways, Dreamworks convinced my wife and I that we could rent a vacation condo, cruise, air travel, car rental, etc. all at greatly reduced (80% they said) prices. It took a while for us to see it was a scam as we were led along thinking we would be able to use the "free" Mexican vacation and "free" car rental...
Read full review of Dreamworks Vacation Club and 13 commentsUniversal Explorations - Proved to be a scam
I have also received a call from this company offering you a discounted vacation in exchange for positive word of mouth advertising. I was very skeptical at first and still am but somehow they managed to talk my credit card number out of me. They have a very convincing web site, use universal studios logo and they send you the travel info by email a...
Read full review of Universal Explorations and 35 commentsGlobal Escapes - 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...
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