Global Exchange Vacation Club Reviews

I was approached at a wedding show in 2023 - went to the presentation for the "free" Disney/Universal trip. They preyed on our honeymoon plans - persuading us that we could get a free week AND cruise for the price of what we "would" spend on a honeymoon, plus years more of travel. 2 years in and we haven't been able to use it - and have to pay $75 to activate or extend the "free" week vacation. NO HONEYMOON and no vacation 2 years later- just major financial regret. The websites (RCI and GEVC) are extremely hard to navigate. The alleged resorts look gross too - with the 299 weekly fee for the week surely is similar to the same price I could find something on any travel website. DON'T DO IT. Shame on this company any their employees for their predatory scams.

SCAM SCAM SCAM! Please don’t sign up for this. All they do is take your money and offer none of the benefits from their presentation. Getting out is impossible and it will affect your credit. Not worth your time or money.

They sent us an invitation to attend a 90-minute presentation (which took 2.5 hours). The card they sent us said: "In exchange for your time and opinion, you will receive a complimentary 3, 5, or 7 night cruise for two adults aboard your choice of major cruise line, including complimentary airfare." According to Webster's dictionary, complimentary means Free of charge. Anyway, to activate the vouchers, we had to pay $290, and it was mandatory to pay by personal check. When the vouchers came, they asked for much more money. How do we get a refund?

DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS PLEASEEEEE!!! Don't fall for it because it's all a SCAM. You go for the presentation, the sales team sweet-talk you into this deadly trap, they tell you all this nice things and even show you pictures of beautiful resorts and all, but they leave out the important details. They don't mention that you have 7days recession period, it's not even stated on any of the documents given to you after signing up. They don't tell you that you can't get out of the membership. And then you're stuck with the huge loan they've lured you into signing up for. It's so deceptive. Notice that after the presentation, when you ask them if you can go home to think about it and then come back later when you're convinced, they pressure you into believing that once you step out of that door without signing up same day, you have missed the best deal ever, they tell you that when come back another time you would have to pay the full amount.

We was invited for information about Global upgrade. Was given an option of 125.00 cash or 150.00 gift card. We chose 150 cash. At the end of what supposed to be one hour turn into two hours, but they stated they didn’t have 125 cash so we had to take the 150 gift card which we didn’t want.

RUN. RUN. IT'S A SCAM. HAVE NOT BEEN ON ONE VACation, you have 7 days to cancel once you sign up so cancel. If you want to cancel you have to pay the remainder of your loan and make sure you do it before the month of your annual fee. I will be canceling by the end of this year. It’s not easy to book, I was told they had Bali vacation houses and there aren’t any. I knew it before signing up and should have listening to my gut feeling and shouldn’t have came to the damn presentation. Stay home. Just swallow the $50 bucks you gave to get a free trip or just look up reviews while you’re in the presentation. Don't sign up please. You will thank me later.

1. We have been previous timeshare owner (RCI) and our contract had expired. We had been looking for something to replace it and knew how RCI worked already. The RCI Extra and Last Minute Vacations are what we have used several times. Both all inclusive and non all inclusive. The all inclusive resorts usually are equal to or less than you can book elsewhere. But, the big advantage are all the extra Perks you get. Members dinners, top shelf liquor, better rooms and location of rooms, members lounges, preferred dining, private beach area with services etc. Depending on the resort. I have not had to book with points yet. With that said I can always "buy" more points from other RCI members. We have taken our kids and friends along several times.

This is a huge SCAM. We were approached at a water park about going to hear about a great vacation club. It is not what it seems. The promise of free tickets was completely false. You have to pay $50 fee for the tickets. You have to select certain dates that you want to travel, three different dates, and then they tell you which date you can travel. We had this membership for several years before we could finally book something. We had 30,000 points but still had to pay an exchange fee and a upgrade fee. Additionally, when we finally got to our resort it was not that great. The lights went out the first night we were there. The power was still off the next day. Other units did not have a power outage. We had to move all of our things to a totally different unit across the campus. It was not a good experience.

The "free" vacations are not free - at least $250 deposit on each. The discount on the lowest advertised price on hotels & cruises is non-existent. They say they will reimburse you the difference, but it doesn't happen. I was charged a $156.13 monthly fee, $388 processing fee, & $395 annual membership fee the first year. The annual fee went up to $416 this year. I've been trying to cancel since the day after I signed the contract. I'm $4,100 & 19 months into this contract and I've never taken a single trip. Caveat emptor!!

I finished paying the 10k they changed and I have not unused since before 2020. I have told them to please stop changing the annual maintenance fee and they have the audacity to say I need to surrender my deed that cost me 10k. Run. Don't get sacked into their promises.