Showing posts with label traveling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label traveling. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

VIP Travel

When people are going on vacation, they usually plan everything. They start from choosing the dates, booking tickets and of course you book a hotel. But the choice of a hotel is actually a very important thing, because it can make or break your holidays. This could be a fantastic stay in a value for money hotel and it can bring a lot of pleasant impressions, sensations and thoughts to your memory. Or it could he a nightmare stay, spoiling all the days spent in it. Recently there have been numerous fraud cases in the traveling industry. People work hard all year long to have several days of the vacation they are longing for and then some shady company appears to spoil the holidays. Beware: VIP Travel travel agency.

Customer service. VIP Travel is a travel agency. VIP Travel company has affiliates all over the United States. VIP Travel provides a huge selection of cruises, almost a hundred of popular destinations, hotel reservations and car rental service. Besides, the agency offers a number of vacation packages according to the kind of travel that interests the customer such as adventure, diving, golf, sailing, safari, hiking, honeymoon and so much more. VIP Travel was ranked as one of the fastest growing travel agencies in the country. And the accommodation that VIP Travel offers is actually considered to be good enough. Every hotel is managed and run according to its own rules and is franchised. However, if there are so many complaints against these hotels then it is probably something wrong about them. And it really is. Because the client service in many of hotels offers by VIP Travel is much to be desired. If there is some trouble with your room like horrible odor or filthy sheets, it is doubtful whether someone at the front desk would like to help you. And the prices in the resorts are relatively high, so there should be no problems. And it was specified so in the advertisement. But there are some sufficient issues. For example, there is no high-speed Internet at and the number of TV channels is something like 10, though it was specified that there should a cable television. Besides, the client service and room service is dreadful, the employees are rude and inattentive.

Other services. VIP Travel has these sneaky agents that clearly express that fact when they are begging you to join the company. Besides, they state that there could not be any increase in monthly payments. But when it happens and the credit card company stops transferring the payments, the customers find themselves in debts. The thing with v is that you have to be very careful while signing any contracts and keep away from entering into deceptive contracts. To avoid such a situation you should better research and find as much as possible information on the company you are going to travel with.

Friday, July 25, 2008

Royal Caribbean

Many people consider that vacation is the most wonderful time of the year, no matter what season it is. We work, wait and save money to finally get that rest that we deserve. And there are thousands of different ways of spending those precious two weeks. And surely, that depends on each person individually, on his or her attitude to life and spare time and on the financial situation. But still, the ways we use to book tickets and reserve hotel rooms are pretty much the same. And Royal Caribbean is a well-known company in the traveling industry. But is this company famous or notorious? Huge amount of complaints prove the later. Here we enlist some problems you have to be aware of while using the services of Royal Caribbean.

Information about the company. Royal Caribbean International is a cruise line. The company is well known for a number of different amenities like specialty restaurants, surfing simulators, rock-climbing walls, and ice-skating rinks on their cruise ships. Royal Caribbean International offers more than hundred and seventy destinations all over the world. The company also offers such services as shore and land excursions, glacier trekking, cave tubing, biking, and so much more. The company also has a special Royal Caribbean Crown and Anchor quest loyalty program. Royal Caribbean International has a fleet of the most modern and innovative ships in the world.

Royal Caribbean problems. The problem number one is poor customer service. This word combination is probably used in all complaints. The thing is that there are many Royal Caribbean customer service centers but there are not so many good customer service representatives. When some problem appears, and they appear quite often when a person uses Royal Caribbean, then it turns out to be almost impossible talk to some representative. The customers can spend hours on hold, trying in vain to get somebody who can help them, but very often it never happens. And even if the customer finally broke through the busy lines, the customer service representative cannot help because he or she cannot solve the problem, or because it is just not important for him or her. And there were many cases when Royal Caribbean representatives were unbelievably rude with customers just because they had a bad day. Besides, the organization of crises can be poor. While having some of the Royal Caribbean cruises the customer should be ready that the hotel would not be like promised, there would not be certain amenities and so on. And then the customer tries to talk to some Expedia managers to have them solving the problem. But in many cases these managers are enable to help because they just do not have the powers to solve the issue. And there is nothing you can do on place with that fact.