What are some opinions of Millennium Travel and Promotions?

Answer 1

Don't tell me, you or your spouse recently got a happy birthday notice in the mail stating that you won two round trip airline tickets including a 3 day/2 night getaway to a Marriot Hotel anywhere in the continental U.S., plus $30 for dinner and $50 for entertainment during your trip if you call them within 48 hrs. And when you called you were told the tickets were yours in exchange for attending a 90-minute presentation to join a vacation club membership with absolutely no obligation to purchase anything. "We give these tickets out for free because we know people will come back after seeing our resorts, plus we want your word-of-mouth recommendation to family and friends" they tell you. So now you've either attended or are thinking of attending the presentation and are wondering if this is all legit?

The answer is HECK NO, IT'S A SCAM! First they make you sit through a power point presentation where they show you a whole lot of wonderful vacation spots all over the world that they claim you can travel to them for incredibly cheap prices if you join their travel club, then they sit you down in a private table for a one-on-one session with a persistent salesperson who tries to get you to put $9,000 on your credit card before you even get to see any club membership paperwork. If you decline to purchase the price drops to $5,000 for a smaller package with less perks, then $3,000 then $1,400. The more questions you ask them the longer they work on you because that tells them you're buying into their sales pitch. Finally, they give you a card with instructions on how to request your tickets with directions that you follow the requirements on the card to the letter. The first thing that catches your eye when you read the card is that you have to send in a $50 per person "refundable" fee with the free tickets request. Second, you have to mail the tickets request via certified mail within a certain timeframe and you have to depart on a evening flight on Monday or Tuesday and return back on an early morning flight (for those of you who may miss this, it means you'd have to check in late on your first hotel day and be at the airport very early on your third day so you'd actually only have one usuable trip day). In addition, you're responsible for paying all "taxes and fees," and lastly, you have to pick three dates with at least 60 days advance notice and the dates must be set at least 45 days apart from each other. Now let's say you send in the money and follow all the appropriate steps required to redeem your tickets. Here's where the wheels come off the cart.

First of all, if you don't follow all of their requirements precisely like mailing the ticket request via "certified mail" they deny you. Even if you do mail it via certified mail they often claim you didn't and make you prove it. Then they waste about six months denying you your first two departure date choices before they finally approve your third choice (they want to make things as least appealing as they can so you give up wanting the tickets). If you still insist on getting your tickets by this point they trigger the nuclear option: They send you a whopping bill for hundreds of dollars in hotel and airline taxes and fees that you agreed to pay which they demand before they'll send you your tickets. You then compare their charges to booking the trip yourself and find that you can book the trip on your own for less than what they're charging in taxes and fees! Naturally, you try to back out and demand your money back. If your persistent you might get around the "no refunds" clause in the paperwork and get your "refundable deposit" back but most people cut their losses and forego their deposit. Either way it works for them. They got you to attend their presentation and you got nothing in exchange - that is if you didn't buy a club membership. If you did - tsk, tsk, tsk - then you can expect virtually everything to be booked years in advance and a lifetime of hassles and hidden fees that will make you think traveling on a private jet is a bargain over club rates. Now go do a Google search of these guys. They go by many names including Global travel. You'll find nothing but scam complaints all over the web from people in several states. Even attorney generals have sued them and their cohorts.

Hopefully you found this site before you got suckered into attending their presentation or worse, dishing out a few grand for a bogus vacation membership. Take care.