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Vida Vacations focuses on luxury vacation ownership. It manages upscale resorts throughout Mexico, providing exclusive beach access, roomy suites and fine dining. Members receive personalized service and a variety of amenities designed to create memorable vacation experiences in top destinations.
- High-quality resort amenities
- Flexible membership options
- Aggressive sales tactics
- Difficulties in customer service
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Reviewed July 14, 2025
We always have a great experience in Vidanta, there isn’t a single person that doesn’t make you feel welcomed. Everyone is super attentive and friendly when it comes to helping you and make your stay the best experience possible.
Reviewed July 12, 2025
Stefan was a great guide for our experience. He was very patient and great and showing us around Vidanta. His professionalism was outstanding and he gave us a great tour of the facilities. We were very amazed by the facilities.
Reviewed July 12, 2025
Estefan did a wonderful job! He made us feel very welcomed. He gave a great tour and gave a good breakdown of what to expect f on the membership. I would highly recommend his services. He doesn’t make the experience feel pressured.
Reviewed July 8, 2025
Fernando is an amazing representative. Very knowledgeable.. The property is amazing and I can't wait to come back. It is definitely a place I will come back and visit all of the properties and go to the theme park..
Reviewed July 8, 2025
The presentation was nice and professional. We learned a lot about the value and benefits. We appreciate the information and attention to detail. The personal experience was good. This is a beautiful place.
Reviewed July 2, 2025
Offers a great product, vacation resorts beautiful, staff and hospitality. Great third trip to Vidanta resorts, rooms and restaurants very nice. Recommend visiting Los Cabo and Riviera Mayan as my favorite places, many more to go!!
Reviewed June 30, 2025
The overall experience was very good and informative. The Vidanta properties are some of the best properties we have visited. Spencer was great in explaining all the options and very personable. Which made the entire experience pleasant.
Reviewed June 27, 2025
With Joy we had a great review of our ownerships and how we can upgrade again in the future. This is the best place I’ll recommend to everyone. This is a place with a excellent service and the people and staff is amazing.
Reviewed June 26, 2025
Nice review from or contract and upgrades from our contract and great people. ** and asset for his help and all the explanation on future of the park and new projects from Vidanta. Thanks for the help. Miguel **
Reviewed June 25, 2025
Our experience was great and we feel like we got a great deal. All of the people who helped us seemed to really want to make a deal and worked to make sure we were comfortable with our purchase. Thank you!
Reviewed June 23, 2025
Robert was great from start to finish. He was friendly and had nice personality. He gave me a lot of insights and did not pressure me at all. I enjoyed the tour of the property and all the information he provided me.
Reviewed June 23, 2025
Christy was fantastic. We are very grateful for their attention to our family. Vida Vacations has provided some wonderful opportunities for our family. We will continue to use Vida Vacations for years to come.
Reviewed June 23, 2025
The review have been so helpful to better understand my options. Great communication skills, super nice person and easy to understand his explanations. Unfortunately my economy is not the best actually.
Reviewed June 21, 2025
Candace, our presenter, was very thorough and very patient. Her team leader was not very professional and nearly blew our update. However, Candace was willing to preserve and obtain our understanding. Only because of her diligence, we stayed and signed a new contract.
Reviewed June 20, 2025
We had an amazing experience with our representative. He was extremely friendly, polite, informative and thorough. He was very mindful of our time, and optimized the conversation to be concise yet detailed.
Reviewed June 19, 2025
Great team that did a great job of bringing each other strengths to make a sale! Invited us a great breakfast and provided us with lots if visuals to help us understand. Each sales rep brought their awesome personality to the sales.
Reviewed June 18, 2025
Okay. Spend too much time talking. No theme park open. No lazy river open. Great staff. Beautiful facility. Beautiful foliage. Children facility nice. Gorgeous rooms. Great skyline. Great park. Kind staff. Great food.
Reviewed June 18, 2025
Mauricio did a great job explaining our contract and our options. He understood our situation and listened well. He was properly versed in our contracts and what needed to be done to protect our investment.
Reviewed June 17, 2025
Our customer service experience with the sales and marketing department was great. There was absolutely no pressure to upgrade or pay more. We love Vidanta and would upgrade but our current financial situation is not conducive to upgrading.
Reviewed May 28, 2025
SCAM ALERT: Do Not Attend a Vidanta Timeshare Presentation — Here's What They Really Do. If you’re traveling to Mexico (especially Puerto Vallarta), beware of Vidanta. What they’re running isn’t a sales pitch — it’s a well-rehearsed scam built on lies, pressure, and financial manipulation. Here’s what really happens:
1. They Lie from the Start. At the airport, reps will pretend to be from your hotel or offer transportation, just to trick you into attending a presentation.
2. “Free Gifts” Are a Joke. They’ll promise you excursions, cash, or dinners — but give you fake vouchers or “credits” that only cover ~11% of inflated prices, often with restrictions that make them useless.
3. The Presentation Is 8–10 Hours of Psychological Warfare. You’re told it’ll be 90 minutes. Instead, you’re cycled through 5–6 different reps, each trying to wear you down with “last chance” offers. If you say no enough times, the offers get so cheap it makes the product seem worthless — because it basically is.
4. They’ll Trap You on Campus. If you reject their offers repeatedly, they’ll strand you at their massive, confusing resort campus with no ride back — using isolation and exhaustion to pressure you into signing.
5. Hidden Credit in Your Name. A friend was told there was “no down payment.” Then they rushed him through documents and secretly opened a line of credit in his name to fund the deal — a shady, borderline fraudulent tactic.
6. The Contract Is a Black Hole. Once signed, cancellation is almost impossible. You’ll deal with zero accountability, awful customer service, and no clear way out.
BOTTOM LINE: It’s a psychological trap designed to confuse, exhaust, and manipulate you into financial entanglement.Don’t go near Vidanta presentations.
Don’t trust anyone at the airport or your hotel pushing “free gifts.”
Don’t risk your time, money, or peace of mind.
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Reviewed May 7, 2025
My family and I attended a sales presentation and the sales rep and the process was very professional. The breakfast was incredible and definitely worth the time. The overall experience was great. Better than some other presentations we have been on.
Reviewed Sept. 28, 2024
I agreed to attend a 60 minute sales presentation and receive a tour of the resort and enjoy a breakfast buffet. The buffet was not the one enjoyed by the members and the tour was not available except within the sales building. My Vidanta sales pitch was Friday, June 28, 2024. We were provided all types of promises. Most turned out to be lies. When we repeatedly refused to purchase, we were reassigned to other staff, one office lied claiming to be an independent research group evaluating Vidanta's sales presentation. The only question asked was why didn't you purchase a unit and then the salespeople were on us again. I finally relented and agreed to purchase after 6 hours of grueling torture. My travelling companion begged me not to as she saw through the lies. We were then told that our purchase must be videotaped.
At that time the details of the purchase were contradictory and absent of most promises. Our purchased unit would only be ours for one week during the entire ten year lease. Most dates except for white weeks, the least desirable would be available to us. The gondola was now operated by a independent company and would be extremely expensive to ride. The golf, amusement park and cirque de Soleil would now be additional costs. Your purchase would not include promised benefits unless you purchased additional memberships with other groups, SFX and Club Freedom, to receive reimbursement for airfare and other benefits. Returning to a Vidanta Resort will now cost me more than any other vacation!
Reviewed Sept. 12, 2024
They will lie, and tell and try to sell you a timeshare, and 3/4 of the stuff they promise, you actually are not true. We upgraded our timeshare, and just to learn we only qualify for the same room we already have. Try to call and complain, and always get sorry nothing I can do. I'm going to eat this upgrade, and never go back. Save your money and NEVER do a timeshare presentation.
Reviewed Aug. 15, 2024
My wife and I were given a vacation from my mother to the Mayan Palace 20 years ago. It was fine until they kidnapped us for 2 days and gave us the hard sell to purchase a timeshare. They wouldn't let us leave and kept hounding us. It was relentless and exhausting. We finally gave in when they said we could sell our timeshare at any time. So, we signed just so they would leave us alone. We have spent over $18,000 on a timeshare we never used, and they are still hounding us to pay more. We tried selling for years but gave up when we realized it was a total scam which I heard is run by a drug cartel as a way to launder their ill-gotten gains. Do not fall for this scam!
Reviewed June 30, 2024
Vidanta Riviera Maya is my family’s favorite vacation spot. We’ve traveled here since I was a child. The amenities, accommodations, entertainment and restaurants are unmatched. The staff are professional and friendly. Every trip is memorable and unforgettable. This is not an all inclusive resort. Vidanta is something much better. We’ve stayed at Grand Mayan, Grand Luxxe and Mayan Palace over the years. My recommendation is not to travel here on a budget and to be ready to make unforgettable memories with your family.
Reviewed June 29, 2024
We had an elegant, magical, perfect and a beautiful wedding at this resort for our daughter. We’ve been vacationing at Vidanta Riviera Maya for at least 20 years. The resort has beautiful landscapes, professional and wonderful staffs, delicious food and drink, amazing entertainment with Cirque du Soleil, Salum (beachfront eateries bars restaurants), and Havana Moon (beachfront with live entertainment nightly) and several other wonderful restaurants for dinner. Our favorite is breakfast/brunch buffet at Quinto and Del Lago for $25 per person will keep you full until dinner. We love the pools and the beach, and of course miles of the boardwalk throughout the resorts with iguanas and local wildlife and beautiful jungle.
We’ve always looking forward to come back after each trip to our favorite Summer vacation destination. Thank you Vidanta and Maria L our wedding planner and all the staffs for a memorable beautiful wedding, and Josefina our photographer for the most beautiful pictures and slides show that made us cry with happy tears each time we watched.
Reviewed June 11, 2024
Thought we were joining the best club in Mexico. The sales people were so friendly. Had a great buffet breakfast in Mayan Riviera. Always presentations take time, but it is a great resort. We paid to become a member and enjoy the services of Club Freedom. It then went downhill.. We did get 7 days in Puerto Vallarta. Another great resort.. Expensive.. Very expensive. Since then we've paid $20,000 to become too level and get personal service. Special phone #. That's also a sham.. Looked after us for about a week and then stopped returning calls.
Whenever we phone, others don't really want to help with your travels, they just want you to pay more money.. TERRIBLE, aggressive. Just got off a call when he wouldn't stop pushing a deal, for me to pay more money. Don't listen to Tara, don't listen to Rafael. Promise you service from London. That's how I got sucked in to the Fraud Squad. Please, Club Freedom, give me a call, if you disagree.
Reviewed March 24, 2024
In October, 2019, my Fiancé & I were in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. We met a representative of Vida Vacations who invited us to a buffet brunch before their time-share talk at their facility. When we arrived there there was NO buffet, only food in a nothing Mexican restaurant. I was very upset as I did not like Mexican food & certainly couldn’t eat it on an empty stomach (I didn’t eat anything before as I thought we were invited to a big buffet brunch).
After we ate at the Mexican restaurant we went to our timeshare high pressured talk which went on & on. When we escaped from that, we received a promise of a restaurant (with a reservation) to go to from Nathaly **. We waited for her to pick us up for the dinner. She never showed up & when I called the restaurant I found out that she never made the reservation & they never heard of her nor of the Vida Vacations nor Grand Incentives. She made a fool out of us. I would never trust what this company says - they are not reputable & irresponsible.

Reviewed Oct. 16, 2023
BEWARE! DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!! Do not buy any packages that suggest free annual cruises and discount cruises. I just attempted to use the $3000 savings and the other annual gift of 2 free cruises a year managed by Club Freedom. The $3000 savings can't be used in totality but only a portion that amounted to 5-10% savings. To use the entire amount before it expires would require me to cruise once a month!!!
And the 2 free cruises which can only be used for 4 days/3 nights, are costing over $1000 plus taxes to redeem. I did a search on generic travel websites and found the SAME cruise to buy for $800. So the FREE cruises cost MORE than buying from any cruising websites. I called customer services for this company, and 1 hour-50 minutes and 5 people later. I was told they can MATCH any price I find that is cheaper!! Really? They promised me free and discounted cruises then charge more than the going rate and would ONLY DISCOUNT if I find a better prices and send to them in writing! WHAT A SCAM!
Reviewed June 24, 2023
The man with the madrid tattoo at Riviera Maya is the most disgusting human being to ever walk the face of this earth. Anything they say like free credit etc "you'll get it tomorrow," YOU WON'T. Absolute trash scammers, pathetic.
Vida Vacations Company Information
- Company Name:
- Vida Vacations
- Year Founded:
- 2010
- Formerly Named:
- Mayan Resorts
- Country:
- Mexico
- Website:
- www.vidavacations.com
