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  • BookVIP has 3.3 star rating based on 284 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly neutral.

  • Rating Distribution
  • Pros: Prices, Price, Great prices and destinations.
    Cons: Poor customer service, False advertisement, Shady.

  • Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Avoid at all cost", "Beware of purchasing vacation packages, without a direct co tact person available to help you.", "Good deals but too many terms and conditions.", "Avoid this business. Too much hassle and headache 8", "Stay away!".

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Top BookVIP Reviews

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"Non communication"

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I am trying to find out some information I was sent the email and I need to talk to someone and I cant get no one on the phone ridiculous

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Kimberly R Zfo

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Non communication

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I am trying to find out some information I was sent the email and I need to talk to someone and I cant get no one on the phone ridiculous

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Pros:
  • Better service
Cons:
  • Non

Preferred solution: Apology

Kyree Vvd

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Would not purchase again.

Once you purchase a package you have to book from a completely different company which charges their own fees costing more money. And still needing to pay taxes and fees once you get to the place you have booked.

I will not be giving my business to BookVIP again.

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| map-marker Saint Paul, Minnesota

The resort no longer exists and waste my time.

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Updated by user Nov 10, 2024

Terrible

Original review Nov 10, 2024

I bought the package. 11/9/2024 and would like to make a reservation but the resort no longer working with them (Krystal resort Cancun) and waste my time more than 2 long hours and ask for my refund to avoid all this.

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User's recommendation: Avoid at all cost

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Anonymous
map-marker Karachi, Sindh

Cleaning

Hi,

If you are looking for a reliable cleaning company with an extremely low attrition rate, we should talk. Partnering with us isnt just about making your business look fresh and clean, but making a proactive investment in the safety and health of your customers and staff.

May we give you a facility evaluation and updated cleaning quote?

Have a great day!

Fiona Welch

Sales Development Representative

Corporate Class Solutions

fiona@***.com

Respond with stop to optout.

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Kathy S Wwq

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Annoyed

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I have tried 10 times to reach somebody using your email or calling and I cannot reach anybody and it is freaking *** me off

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Guest

same here

Shelly J Rfh

Book my trip

I have been trying to book my dates for my paid vacation package for over a month. I was told someone will call me several times but nobody has called me.

This is very frustrating to not be able to talk to a customer service representative. Please help me book my vacation.

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Loss:
$600
Pros:
  • Price
Cons:
  • No customer service representative to speak to

Preferred solution: Deliver product or service ordered

Cinderella Sra

Emergency

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No comment when calling I feel your given me the run around I dont want to go back and forth with you I just want to make sure I get to know the truth about my situations with you because Im trying to get you to understand that I am trying to get you to answer the phone so that I can talk with someone on the phone

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Chelsea S Bbp

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No one answers or returns emails

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I was given the wrong room. The room was dirty towels had bugs in them no hot water..

I want a refund asap! Im so upset that no one even cares enough to return my call or email.. horrible service.

Ive used before in past never had an issue so Im really upset this happened.. please return my call or email ASAP!!!

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Loss:
$890

Preferred solution: Full refund

Robin S Siq

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I am unable to get any response from BOOKVIP, thru email or phone. Poor Customer Service

I purchased a vacation package. However when I attempt to make a reservation(paid for), I am being charged again.

I requested for someone to contact me, but have yet to hear from anyone. It has been over a month of trying daily.

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Preferred solution: A representative to speak with, so that I can purchase my trip, without being charged again. At this point, I have lost no money, just time and cooperation.

User's recommendation: Beware of purchasing vacation packages, without a direct co tact person available to help you.

Cheyteshia M

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REFUND

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Purchased a vacation for $855.40 on May 26 2021 to Sirenis in Punta Cana for September 23 thru September 28, 2021. I called a few times to cancel the vacation and to get a refund.

I was told that I would not be able to get a refund but I can cancel the dates and call back within 12 months from September 2021 to be able to schedule a new vacation date. I explained the reason for canceling was due to increasing covid cases as well as our child(8) not being able to get the vaccine as my husband and I had just become eligible to get the vaccine. With my husband and I getting the vaccine and not our son, we did not feel comfortable traveling internationally with him. Also we were unaware if our son's school would continue with distance learning or in person and we did not find out that our son was returning back to the campus until the week that he went back to school.

Things have changed tremendously for my husband and I and we are no longer able to afford this vacation nor do we meet the qualifications for everything that bookitVIP is requesting us to have and do. I am requesting a full refund of $855.40. Today, I was finally able to reach someone and it happened to be Michelle Aguinaleo who started that she was a manager in canellation dept.Customer service number and her extension 176. Michelle said they are forced to convince me to extend package instead of providing a refund and that she will extend date to September 2023, I told her that is not what I want so she needs to put in her notes that I am not asking for extension to 2023 and I am asking for a refund and then she mentioned penalty but didn't elaborate.

As I explained on your voice mail and to customer service, this is fraud and a scam to keep someone hard earned money. If I am not fully refunded then I am forced to take other actions.

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Loss:
$855

Preferred solution: Full refund

User's recommendation: Avoid this business. Too much hassle and headache 8

Anonymous
map-marker Tacoma, Washington

BookVip - Stay Away

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I purchased a package for an all inclusive 5 star Cabo San Lucas resort. When I booked the dates, it was cancelled due to the fact I owned a timeshare at that resort.

Looked at several other all inclusive resorts in Mexico and I did not qualify on any of them under the resort's terms and conditions.

I requested a refund because of this and was denied. Now I am stuck with a package that I cannot use.

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User's recommendation: Good deals but too many terms and conditions.

Marsha R Phk

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Cancellation and refund of paid trip

I will not be able to take this trip due to a medical condition and surgery and treatment after surgery.

I would like to cancel the trip and get a refund. I paid for the trip insurance in the event something like this would happen.

Unfortunately shortly after purchase, COVID happened, then a year of restricted air travel and not I am serious ill.

Please provide direction on getting a refund.

Thank you,

M.R

Trip: Cabo San Lucas

No dates have been reserved yet due notation above. You extremely long hold times is what let me to contact you this route.

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Preferred solution: Full refund

Yukari Kcv

BookVIP is a scam and ripoff

We planned a vacation with BookVIP.com and they cancelled our vacation that was confirmed by the Villa Del Parmar resort in Cancun, Mexico. We paid for a package and were also charged more for the package than agreed upon.

We then were told our reservation was cancelled by error and that they could not give us our original reservation. They then offered a terrible resort and to pay a minimal adjustment that wasn't what the resort was even being shown to be selling at. They harassed us repeatedly, would not let us speak with supervisors or their legal department as we requested.

We are now out a vacation and the $1,200.00 for airfare to Cancun because we have no intention, after this nightmare, to spend what we wanted to go there for which is a relaxing holiday.

They intentionally also called us several times a day and kept saying we cancelled our reservation. This actually caused us duress and it's criminal what they do. They are committing fraud by scamming people into a better resort and cancelling their reservations and trying to put people in a much less of a quality resort. The difference was night and day and we had not intention of traveling all the way there since they were so shady and dishonest.

Don't use these folks. We will be filing a legal claim and also requesting compensation for the damages caused due to the duress.

BookVIP Reply:
Thank you for your valuable feedback and we take all customers issues very seriously. We are able to look up reservations by the last name of customer, their email address, or telephone number, however, we are unable to locate any reservation with the information given by you to this web site. You can contact me direct at James@BookVip.com. As an owner, I pride myself in BookVip offering the most discounted vacation packages and having an A+ rating Better Business Bureau for our customer service.

The reason we can offer packages 70% off the retail rates is because the resorts subsidize the cost of these discounted vacations in exchange for your time during the resort preview. The resort verifies each reservation before issuing a confirmation number as resort is paying the cost of discounted vacation. A majority of the issues occur when the resort finds the terms & conditions are being circumvented. We will send over 300,000 families on dreams vacations alone this year! We have more actual customer video reviews than any other travel site. http://bookvip.com/sitereviews

Thank you.
Kind regards,

BookVIP Management Team
Management@bookvip.com
1-(888)-849-8450
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Loss:
$1200
12 comments
Guest

booked and charged for one package, told it wasn't available unless I paid $640 more, told them I need to cancel reservation. They said management will call you back.

I 've called four times, never recieved a call back yet, never recieved any sort of cancellation notification or confirmation from any one.

It took one day to charge my card, now it's been 4 days and I can't even speak to any one about the cancellation and every time I call they say oh yes, I see your reservation here. Bait and switch or just thievery?

Guest
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Hello Mr. Hurth,

As I explained in my email and voice mail.

We sincerely apologize on any confusion, however, I assure it was definitely not intentional. The resort classifies your oldest child who is 18 as an adult and not a child. The 1 bedroom room occupancy allows for 2 adults and 3 children under the special promotion and we had to get an exception on this hotel rule which were able to get approved yesterday. As an owner I definitely stand behind our product and services as we are the largest travel promotions company and have an A rating with Better Business Bureau.

We definitely go extra lengths to get special approvals and I apologize if it was not expedited and communicated properly. That being said, I have made sure your refund is processed tonight.

Again, thank you for the valuable feedback and feel free to email James@***.net

Happy Holidays

Best,

James

Guest

Same happened to me - just now. Booked, accepted, then tried bait switch to... Holiday Inn.

Guest

Did you ever get anywhere with the legal end? I am looking at filing legally as well and try to get back some of which they have "screwed" me out of.

Guest

Scam artists.you have been warned

Violet
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Hello John,

We book over 50,000 vacation packages a year and have an "A-" rating with Better Business Bureau http://www.bbb.org/shreveport/business-reviews/travel-agencies/resort-vacations-international-in-natchitoches-la-90048356#bbbseal

Please contact me directly at James@rvitravel.net as we are always looking to improve. Thank you

Guest

This is no surprize your *** commercial went on and on.

Guest

Mr. Colligan,

I tried to contact you.

We never tried to change the reservation and were called several times by parties asking for more money. Our reservation date was confirmed and then your agency cancelled it after we booked our airfare. We lost $500.00 in airfare when we had to change our tickets to use them to travel elsewhere.

We never tried to travel in a group, which both your staff and the resort told us, but we were only traveling alone....two of us, for a much needed vacation.

This is a scam and it cost us much.

We are looking to file complaints and sue for our lost travel and the emotional distress that your staff caused repeatedly harassing us over the phone and lying that we cancelled our reservation. We didn't and your staff it seems never did what they were required to do.

Additionally we asked for a stay at a comparable resort which was possible and they tried to put us in hotels that were a fraction of the cost and rated with two stars on many sites.

Your agency was a nightmare to work with and we've posted this because we travel often, know the ins and outs of such promotional deals and were interested in the property. Your unprofessionalism needs to be known to others.

We also tried to e-mail you and no response. Thank you

Violet

Hello Gammica,

I am one of the owners of Bookvip.com and you can contact me directly james@rvitravel.net. We are the largest travel promotions company and handle over a ten of thousands special promotion packages per year without any issue.

Like any company, we are not perfect and we are always looking to improve. The most difficult part in selling the discounted promotional packages are the terms and conditions that the resort sets as they are ones subsidizing the cost of the rooms for qualified customers to listen to their vacation ownership /timeshare presentation. Again, the rooms are discounted many times over $1000 in exchange of the customer's time and meeting the resort's qualifications. Where most issues occur is where the customer tries to circumvent the resort's qualifications and the resort denies the reservation or where rooms become unavailable due to sold out dates in which we always refund the customer.

One of the most difficult items we deal with is group travel as the resorts don't permit it with the promotion.

All of these terms & conditions are disclosed on the site as well. Each customer signs electronically the terms & conditions before we ever charge a customer.

Again, I appreciate your feed back and look forward to hearing from you

Sincerely,

James Colligan

Owner BookVip.com

Guest
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That's the same answer you used on another web site. You didn't address the problem!!!!!!!

Guest
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I booked this vacation in June of 2014 and now in December, after trying to change the date, am I having the exact same issues. I have been accused and told that I would be charge $750 per night to stay at the hotel if I showed up on these dates because someone else changed the dates to the same time that I am and they happen to live in the same state.

Now I am being told that I can't get my money back from BookVIP but the hotel will only give me my upgrade amount back, and that is after BookVIP cancels my reservations. BookVIP won't cancel my reservation or give me anything other than an opened ended (18 month) vacation, but after reading the comments above is a total rip off. So lesson learned that this company is truly trying to get every penny they can.

So disappointed that I will let everyone I know through all media efforts that I have, NOT to every book with BookVIP!!!!

Guest

We had a very similiar experience with Apple Vacations a few years ago. Actually even worse.

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Anonymous
map-marker Tucson, Arizona

Refund

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Cancellation #BVIP 2020c- 459****. I have been waiting for 10 days to get my refund. Do I need to file with the courts to get my money ???

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Michelle F Kkb

I have a credit I want to use

I have a credit I want to use. I have tried to get a hold of somebody several times and nobody wants to call me back. Please give me a call so I can book my vacation 641680****

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Chris B Bcy

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Lies about sending refund

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SBought trip insurance and canceled trip because they lied about going to a 90 min meeting and friends and family couldnt go on same trip. No where did it say that on our trip.

I have been promised a refund for several weeks and still have no received it. I have called my bank and they have no info on the refund.

I have called BookVip 8 times and keep getting the same response. I have contacted the BBB and filed a complaint, next will be filing a complaint to attorney general.

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Loss:
$515

Preferred solution: Full refund

User's recommendation: Stay away!!!

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Summary

Bookvip.com is an American travel agency headquartered in Miami, Florida with additional offices in Asia. The company is the leader in discounted vacation promotional packages and is the fastest growing travel company in North America with over 3.6 Million Facebook Likes and 1 million happy customers. Bookvip.com offers 24 hour, 7 day per week service for its customers and is available before, during and after their trip. The company has an A rating with the Better Business Bureau and strives for 100% customer satisfaction. Most importantly, it is what our customers that say that matters. BookVIP now has more customer video testimonials than any other travel website in the world! The customer video testimonials can be viewed on Bookvip.com http://www.bookvip.com/sitereviews. Also please see our Q/A section with frequently asked questions. https://www.bookvipreviews.com/questions-answers.html

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