Global Vacation Network Reviews

If ever there's ever a class action against this company let me know so I can be part of it. Very high pressure, buy more stars, then you get to see more places. I rented a cabin #158 at White Oak Gatlinburg six months ago. They called me two weeks before my vacation and said that it had been overbooked!! I have to stay in the condos instead of the cabin! Not happy, plus Karl the CEO won't give me the courtesy of returning my call after leaving 2 messages.

I don’t want to write a novel but do not fall for this horrible company. They are a scam and just want your money. We have unfortunately been members since 2020 and have had nothing but terrible experiences. With the activation fee being near $500 we cannot even use the membership. Our monthly payment is out of our budget as we are down to one income. When I expressed our financial issues and needing to figure something out my only option was to pay the remaining balance of our account.

Same issue as another review. I have had a membership for 1 year, 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. You must also have a vacation in a lot sooner than you can request a vacation from work makes it very difficult. I want to cancel it.

High pressure salesman, below standard rentals, and higher rental prices than going through regular channels. Kept us in the presentation for over 6 hours! We stayed so we would not have to pay for the motel rental. When they realized we were not going to sign they brought out a lady from the office that had booked our presentation to guilt us into signing.

DON'T DO IT!!!! Membership starts with high pressure sales process where significant upfront costs and annual fees are presented as a good deal, but if you refuse, they change the price lower then lower again if you refuse 2nd time. In reality the booking involves complicated systems and hidden costs. There is a usually more expense to book "exciting destinations" and "5-star resorts" that were promised during the sales presentation. We found the accommodations to be substandard, citing dirty rooms, poor locations, and a general lack of quality not matching the promised luxury. Rude, and unhelpful, customer service representatives who refuse to address issues or honor contract cancellations. There are several complaints filed against this company. TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY. BAIT & SWITCH.

I used to love my membership. We would go to really nice places. Then one year we had a call during our vacation so they could go over things. They explained if we purchased more stars we would move to VIP status and have a larger inventory. Well that never happened. What has happened is when we do book a condo more than not we are very disappointed. They are run down old places. One had roaches. We started reviewing other sites on the condos and it’s lucky if majority receive 1-2 stars but on Global they are ranked 4 stars or better.

Recently went to a meeting about travel. On the invite there was no clue as to who was presenting. The invite described learning about travel and featured dinner and a bottle of wine. There was neither! We did receive water and appetizers. The sales pitch was interesting and we sat with a gentleman who kept telling us this was a no pressure event, simply information. Toward the end, the price list came out and all things changed! He became adamant about purchasing even the lowest package deal and how beneficial this is. When we told him we weren't interested at this time, he lowered the price, added extra weeks and stars to try and pressure our decision.

Folks. I read a lot of complaints. I have been with them for 15 plus years. I sent children, grandchildren on honeymoon, I've traveled a good deal and have been disappointed. Yes they have rules, there are limits to their availability of properties but I have saved many many thousands over the years. I continue to vacation yearly and as I type we're on on a 6 night 7 day vacation in the smokey Mountains at a Hilton resort that is out of this world. They reasonable people, they have corporate rules they have to abide by but I've had personal situations with scheduling and they have come through every time. Yes I had to wait sometimes longer than I had hoped but they never failed me. If you remain professional and polite these folks are great. Sorry but I do not side with unreasonable expectations.

We were excited to buy into this vacation company, After we bought in, we found they never had anything available for places we wanted to travel, Probably the biggest rip-off we have ever been sucked into. We lost $6000.00 on this deal, and we cannot afford to lose that much money. Stay away from these people.

We go on vacations once a year. We bought into GDV. We used it three times in 12 years. The first time we went Orlando. It was all the old condos from the resort. Second time was in Clearwater FL. Condos were filthy, we left, went to a hotel. The third was not bad. It was in a bad area. My wife still cleaned it up for it was a big waste of money. If you're looking for a clean and up to date place this is not for you