Global Vacation Network

I have owned timeshares for over 30 years. They have changed so much and are not only expensive but no longer easy to get the places you want. This is not a timeshare. Global offers stays including in timeshare resorts affordably without the high cost of buying a timeshare or paying annual maintenance fees that are due whether you vacation or not. I am telling all my friends about this. I am amazed and excited. This membership truly makes it affordable. Now it is just finding the time to go to all the places offered! I checked other reviews but many are not for this company and some are during Covid when travel was halted. Representatives and customer service are great. Love the travel agents and extra benefits like activity discounts and car rentals. You won't be disappointed.

For the first 5 year of our Global Discovery Vacation membership, we were able to get the vacation locations we were promised when we purchased our membership (Hawaii, San Diego, Mexico etc). Then they disappeared and we were told we would need to upgrade, spending $2,400 extra to upgrade to the top level membership to see the same properties we had before as well as numerous additional properties. We paid the $2,400 and could now book most of the

properties we went to under the original plan.

My wife and I purchased the 4-star program for $9500 when we were traveling in Hawaii. While I do not think the Company is a scam, we have concluded this was not a good purchase decision for us, and probably not for most consumers. We wish we hadn't signed up for the service. We did not experience a high-pressure sales pitch, folks easily left without buying, though there was pricing pressure to sign-up on the day of the presentation. Below are the Pros and Cons from our experience.

Horrible service and communication, absolutely the most unprofessional team of property managers I’ve ever met. There are SO many amazing ones in Southwest Florida—Paradise Exclusives sets the standard. I’m giving a BEWARE. Request for repairs ignored (leaking ceiling and no wifi), not billed properly and utterly harassed by Jessica, with not one courtesy after paying almost 30K. Will be filing a complaint with the Better Business Bureau and my attorney.

October 19, 2021. Hello. My wife and I are members of Global Discovery Vacations. Recently we went on a two week, back to back vacation from Global. In the middle of the first week, we got a call from a Mr Karl ** who is the supervisor of vacation rentals. He informed us that he was not able to fulfill our reservation for the second week and that we would be put in another resort. The resort that he suggested (with no options) was inferior to the one that our original reservations were in. He was unable to put us into an equivalent resort. He is supposedly the manager of Global’s resort reservations. His inability or unwillingness to put us in at least an equivalent resort is either a lack of training or impotence to act on behalf of Global to make a satisfying vacation experience available to ALL of Global’s members.

I have had a membership for 3 years, I have used it once. Every time I go to book something, Expedia or Priceline have been cheaper. So I am paying 3k for what? A fancy membership? No thanks, I have reached out to them to cancel, and I haven't heard a thing back from them. Having read the reviews now, I kick myself for not doing research first. They were good in their sales pitch, and kept lowering the price every time I wanted to be done. But, we signed up in the end. But again, every time I go to book, other places have been cheaper, by far. I have not seen any benefit to their membership. I want to cancel it.

I was called to say I had won 4 tickets to Disney with a free stay and flight for 4 people if I listened to a sales pitch. My husband and I sat for 90 minutes listening to this sales pitch. We decided not to buy in. I was told within 48 hours we would receive an email stating how we could collect the Disney vacation we were promised. No email ever came. Don’t think you're getting anything from this company. They will make you feel like you were chosen, but you’re not. This is a scam to get people to buy into their vacation ownership. Don’t do it.

I started with a small program because I was skeptical on how it would work for me and my family but now I am fully sold. I was able to stay at a beautiful Ocean front condo at Fort Lauderdale. I am looking into upgrading my program for my next vacation by adding more stars. Thanks Global for a wonderful vacation.

Global Discovery Vacations is absolutely the most unprofessional company I’ve ever dealt with. Their customer service is horrific. I paid my annual renewal fee in January, 2020 but have been unable to travel this year due to Covid. When I was FINALLY able to talk to a customer service supervisor about compensation (refund, credit, extension, etc) for unusable travel credits, I was told they will do absolutely nothing. Every other business, for example - gyms, airlines, auto insurance, is compensating its customers for loss of use due to Covid.

I purchased this several years ago. Never used then I decide to try to use it. Went online. Everything there was in another country or hundreds miles away. I contacted them. Was call back by a lady. Said I need more stars. So I purchased more, I was told with express week you could travel almost anywhere with only week notice. Well none of this is true. Express weeks are at least a month out which I am ok with however there is never anything within thousands miles or most is out of the country. When I call I am told look on the internet, if it is not there then everything is booked. This is the biggest scam and the biggest lie that I have ever seen. I called yesterday and spoke with a lady. She said, "If you don't see anything on the web then we don't have it." I think I am going to talk with an attorney.