Global Vacation Network

After speaking with my friend that has been using Global Vacations I decided to look into pricing and get more information. I had to wait two weeks for a sales presentation which took over two hours on the phone, just to get pricing information. The presentation went smooth and I was getting excited seeing all the benefits that would come with the package. At the end of the presentation I was given a price for a three star package and a six star package which I was most interested in. After given the base price, I was told I would get a great referral discount which would essentially cut my price in half. After hearing the final numbers I told the sales rep I would take the night and think about it with my wife, because 8k is a big decision when you have one income home. The sales rep then continued push at me and even offered a "trial package" including wo starts for 18 months which would cost me only $1200.

We bought our membership quite a few years ago. The first few years Wessex it a couple of times a year and it was great. A guy called and wanted to come out and show us changes that were being made and since we were close to both being retired we bought 2 extra weeks a year. Since then we have never been able to get any availability. We are not in a position to book 13 months in advance but can usually do at least 6 months. Some occupations will not accommodate this. Then we were called to come to another sales pitch and get a week at a resort. Use within a year. Nothing available for this either. It gets worse and worse.

I wish I could give them NO stars. We have over $3000 to pay these scam artists. The person we initially spoke to NEVER said we were opening a line of credit on each of our credit accounts. Both me and my husband's credit score went down because of an inquiry and a late payment. Had we known we'd be putting this on our credit we wouldn't have ever signed up for this. They wouldn't cancel our membership. We were told we had 3 days to cancel and we didn't. We were never told we couldn't cancel at anytime. This has been the WORST experience ever.

I am a new owner to Global and purchased in September 2019 even after reading mixed reviews. I decided to book two rooms for a Disney trip with grandkids. Expecting the worst and hoping for the best, I quickly found availability of two 1-bedroom suites at a brand new resort a block from Disney on the website. Since I was booking two suites, I decided to call the reservations line instead of booking online. My call was immediately answered and directed to Nicole in Reservations. Nicole immediately picked up without any wait and booked my reservation without a hiccup. Nicole was very polite and helpful. In less than five minutes from the start of my call, Global booked and confirmed our two suites at the brand new resort and sent the email confirmation. The cost was only 1 Star credit per suite for the week and the nominal weekly charge. If this isn't excellent service I don't know what is! Excited to book more vacations with Global.

Updated on 10/21/2019: So I posted before my long lasting poor relationship with this company that cares for nobody. They will respond to initial post just to put in a resolution in progress status then move on to their next scam. "Hi Trevor, We would like to review your account to see how we could help improve your satisfaction with the vacation membership. Could you please reply privately to this message with your membership number? Thank you, Andrew **. Global Vacation Network." So replied and get nothing. Next stop Florida Attorney General's office.

We would like to hear from someone who has purchased this service in the last couple of years. Seems that everything I have seen is old- no recent entries. We hope we haven't been scammed. It does sound too good to be true.

There are very few condos available if you live in Utah. Yeah, there are plenty in Aruba or other states but we have been very disappointed with our options. Also, we should have read our contract more thoroughly as you get charged a $395 fee every year if you want to use their stars. That, plus the $189 (more in some condos) fee for reserving a condo cost about as much as just getting a place without this several thousand dollar contract with these people and you can actually choose where you want to vacation. There is nothing by Disneyland or anywhere someone in Utah would actually want to go. We ended up going to Reno because that was the only option for us and it sucked. In our opinion, this is a waste of money.

We have been members for two years and we have six stars. I have loved the program. We have gone to Hawaii twice, Pagosa Springs, Granby twice and Steamboat Springs. Some of the places have been amazing and others have not been fancy, but met our needs. I tell everyone how happy I am with our experience. I love the Expressway option. This has given us some fun last-minute getaways. We have two kids, so it is really nice to have a larger unit and have our own room. The only complaint I have is that there are not always properties available in locations I want, but if you book out far enough and have the stars to do it, then it works out well. For example, I have been looking for an Expressway to come up in Colorado for several months and there is nothing, but that is just me trying to score a deal. :-)

Before I begin.... Please understand I do not usually ever write a review about anything. First off I joined Global in 2016. My Wife and I originally purchased 4 stars after seeing the presentation. Our friends invited us to this presentation. I am extremely skeptical in general... so I put the presenter to task. It sounded too good to be true. So I talked it over with my wife, and decided to go with it. We went on our trip to Vegas. Jane and myself were put up at the Wyndham Grand Desert Resort, 2 blocks from the strip. We increased our stars to six and now have 14 stars in 2019.

I sent Global Vacation an email a week ago, as well as a year ago, asking the same question to which they have never responded. I provided my email address and phone number. You can "inherit" these to your kids but they don't tell you that only 2 of those kids can be named on the account. My parents died and left it to my sister, brother and I and of course I was left off the account. Now I can't book a cruise or anything without having one of them removed and myself added to the account which is a process. If you're going to give the option to inherit these to your kids, cover all the kids. I've never been responded to which feels like an even bigger slap in the face.

I was told with a 2000$ upgrade I would have so much more for the Caribbean options I go every year. For the last seven months I have been checking every day trying to book something by the end of the year. This might be the first year we don’t go which is super disappointing after spending that much money being told I would have so many choices :(. There are less options than I had before the upgrade and it’s very disappointing. Also was told if we can’t find something that they would look into other timeshare companies and get us what we’re looking for. After calling and asking if we could do that I was told it’s almost damn near impossible to do. I went on RCI site and so many places to stay in Saint Maarten! I has never been so disappointed with Global Connections.

We joined in February 2014. We have never used the program but not because we didn't like it but didn't take the time. I found out late they charged us the membership fee on our anniversary date each year even though we didn't use it (that was the deal, don't use it don't get charged). I talked with a gentleman and he offered me 3 options to receive the $1600+interest overcharge. This was August of 2018.

I’ve been reading these reviews and can totally stand by what they are saying. We got sucked into a presentation by winning a raffle prize. 3 day vacation. We wound up in the high pressure sales presentation. We kept refusing to buy in. Finally they came back with a “sold back” package. 2 stars, 4 stars for expressways. $2000 buy in which I thought was pretty good compared to what others paid. Our first trip was a resort in San Diego. $189 for the week once we paid the yearly fee and used both stars. Vacation was fantastic!!! I checked what it would have cost had we booked directly with the resort. It would have exceeded 2K for 7 days. So we basically got our money back in the first trip.

My husband and I have been Global Discovery Vacations members since 2014 and we're really happy with our purchase in the beginning. Over the years the amount of properties available for booking kept declining to a point where there are only 2 destinations in the summer on their website - Arizona desert and California desert. Last year, while vacationing, we were invited to attend a "meeting" which turned out to be a sales presentation where we were offered an upgrade for several thousand dollars which would have given us access to more properties, and would have increased our star credits.

The lady Cassidy was very nice however they are promising customers things that they are not giving. They really need to not try to sell a 7000 package in 1 hour. That is not enough time for me to make a decision. It's not the money. It's the trust. Where is my 25$ Amazon card and my vacation package to Vegas?

My wife and I bought membership and at first were very satisfied but every year the availability of places is not there and the locations of the ones that are available are either dumps or in the middle of nowhere. If things don't improve soon I will be contacting an attorney to get pro-rated portion of the initial price back. Advice is if it seems too good to be true it is. That certainly stands true for this company. I will say Nicole is very nice and does try to be helpful but her hands are tied.

I purchased this 10 years ago. It was great for years. Then I noticed the condominium availability had went to almost nonexistent. I would call and they would email me the same condos that were on the website, that was a joke. Then I get a phone call asking me to join a webinar scheduled to go over the upgrades and I agreed. She showed me the platform that I was using and then showed the upgrades and I was blown away. I got really excited and she told me they put millions into making this better. I was thinking to myself, "This is great," I paid them close to 5k ten years ago and they put that money to use along with all the other members. Then all of a sudden BAM... "In order to use this we need you to pay more money." She put me on hold and my blood started to boil.

This started in the typical fashion of being offered a free tablet. I told my SO not to go. She got sucked in at the meeting and I was there with her. They kept us there longer than they told us the presentation would last. We were told that we would be getting a package with "three stars" but they wrote down and only gave us "two stars" then charged us the same price quoted for three. The salesman used high pressure sales tactics, wasted the first 1.5 hours of the presentation telling us that what they were selling isn't a timeshare nor anything related to it.

I went to Global sell production. After reading reviews everything went on make sense. They said always available, no blackout days. Timeshares sales said same thing. Why these people I'm reading say they can't book nothing there. I seen where it says power by RCI. I am a member of RCI. I had more problem with them than anyone. They lie you like a rug lay on floor. I not only one people talks at vacation. A lot of people said same thing. All they want your money and leave them alone. They change phone #, promise you anything make a sale.

We received a letter in the mail to renew for our membership. We paid off everything and haven't used our membership yet, except for our free trip. We were told we would not have to pay our $435 yearly fee if we didn't use it that year. They did this last time too and we had to call and make sure they didn't charge us. I've called twice and my husband called twice and no one has called back. Pretty sure this place is a scam. Also, our free trip wasn't that nice. It was dark and looked dirty. I doubt it's ever been updated. Don't purchase a membership through them. Waste of money and time!!

My husband and I purchased a vacation package a few years ago and were very excited with what the package had to offer. Fast forward to today and the only time we have been able to use our package was the free gift vacation we received at the presentation. This was not due to a lack of trying. Each time we have attempted to use the program, we are told there is nothing available in the locations we want to go. We have tried to book vacations in Florida, New Mexico and even Alabama. We looked into 3 separate cruises too. For each of these attempts we were told there was nothing available in the timeframes we were searching.

My husband and I listened to their presentation and decided to sign up. We were paying our payments but when we went to use it there were no available cabins on the cruise ships we were wanting to book or the price was higher than what I could book it for online. Now we have this huge bill in collections for something we never used and paid them quite a bit of money already for nothing.

Don’t do it! My mother-in-law paid $250 to have her membership transferred to us so we could enjoy what she hadn’t used in 11 years due to health issues. We would have to pay another $5000.00 to even be able to “see” what and where we could go. All I want is my mom to get her $250.00 back. Have left 6 messages over past 3 weeks (BTW she paid this in April! It took this long to even get this far!) and of course, nobody can call me back. DO NOT BUY INTO THIS SCAM!

I want my money back and cancel my contract ASAP! I "purchased" a membership to this organization, and because I was a Goldstar family member of the military, they "gave" me what they call a better deal. Four month later I lost my job, and wanted to cancel the membership but was told I could only reduce my payments; that was almost two years ago. I have moved to another state, and tried on numerous occasions to call, to cancel this contract, and receive no call back at all. Darn. Wasted $$$!

We signed up 2 years ago and have only once found a resort in a destination we want. When we went there, all amenities were extra charge so we ended up paying a lot more than we would have without Global for another hotel. We signed up through a 'special offer' but were not told that we would be charged an 18% finance fee every month! We are out of a lot of money and we're told by phone we cannot cancel this. The representatives who gave us their business cards are not reachable and their numbers are not in service. We would like to cancel our membership!

We have been Global Discovery Vacations members for three years now. We haven't had many opportunities to use their services but overall we were satisfied with the program. It really is a hit or miss but we are not picky so we tried to make the best out of our vacations. The company recently increased our membership fees but we thought there was an inflation rate to consider so we were OK with that.

This company took advantage of me as a senior by being very high pressure and having inexperienced agents wait on us (one was in training). Also, telling us that it didn't matter where you traveled it was all $187.00 per week. We specifically asked about Hawaii and yes was the answer. When we tried to schedule, not only was nothing available, but the prices were triple what was promised. Also, we tried calling many times only to be put forever on hold and when leaving messages were never called back. Just recently when we tried to get out of the contract they were very rude saying we signed and had to hold up to our part. The problem was they never held up their part of the contract by being deceiving and lying. Stay away from Global Vacation Network!!!!

My parents bought a 5 star package in their retirement. They never ended up using due to sudden poor health. My dad always told me... “It goes to you kids when we die.” Apparently not! Apparently they would have had to transfer it BEFORE their death. So if you own and die suddenly... Global gets your package back free and clear. Global rep just told me my dad KNEW that when he bought it... sounds like a hidden scam to me. My dad was so proud he and mom were leaving something for his children to enjoy after he and mom passed! My dad passed suddenly first and my mother was paralyzed her last 4 years of life so couldn’t notarize anything! After global told me all this... they then offer to sell me a "discounted" package! REALLY!!? I think this place is a scam to weasel money out of old people!!!

My husband and I purchased this travel plan 5 years ago. We have never been able to use the vacation "stars" or time due to the lack of destination locations and time of year. All resorts located in Florida etc. are during the peak Hurricane season. Even if you are looking at off peak times to travel the destinations are usually not available or cost more than what is being sold. Also, do NOT attend a presentation. They will promise some sort of gift but you will leave with a $5 gift card to Walmart of the like and think you are getting a 3-4 day Cruise. However, once you read the fine print and all the reviews you will see that you never get the cruise but pay additional $200+ in fees. The whole program is a SCAM and they hope that folks like my husband and I just give up. I will be looking to take this company to small claims court in order to re-coup some of our funds.

My husband and I went to a presentation and bought with Global Vacation Network back in 2007 when we lived near Chicago. The salespeople were very helpful and they even got me some peanut M&M's when my blood sugar started to dip since we were there past dinner time. We were quite skeptical that they could work with my husband's difficult schedule and were concerned with the time restraints of our three school age children. In the end we decided to give it a try and we both agree that we're glad that we did. We've always loved to travel and wanted an affordable way to take our children to other states and other countries as they got older and be able to return to areas in Europe and Mexico where we had traveled during our engagement. We held our breath and put in our first vacation request for the Wisconsin Dells.