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Ecoman1949
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You can book a discounted stay there on any of the major sites like Expedia, Kayak, Sell of Vacations etc. Why bother buying membership?
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lifestyles cabarete= boom or bust?
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Cdn_Gringo
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For the services and membership privileges that are not offered to the general public. Some or all of which may be of no interest to any particular travel site customer - but boy do they complain in the travel site comments when they can't go somewhere or do the same things as members.
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Big
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man I need one of those membership cards just to keep the sales guys from hitting me up while I'm walking down the sidewalk. Will it also get me a beach massage and hair braiding by one of those beefy woman on the beach?
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Luperon
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My understanding is that the all inclusive mealplan is not locked in at the time of purchase. I have a friend, I will call her Sucker for this example. Paid a bundle for the membership, they kept selling her upgrades after upgrades, helicopter pick ups etc etc.
When she purchased, the all inclusive meal plan was about $30 usd a day, per person, now it's well over a hundred, maybe 150. They have to pay that in addition to their fixed rental price in addition to over 100k they got scammed out of.
The knuckle dragging people who seek out the deals on cheap Caribbean website are the smart ones. The rest stupid suckers.
There is no guarantee that you can even get a villa or a room when she wants, it's kinda 1st come 1st served, even after buying in. Lol
Going there and not getting the meal plan is an option, but a sad one.
Time shares are for sad stupid people.
I did know a guy who bought a time share for almost nothing with tiny maintenance in order to use the rci network. He worked the system.
People who bought in lifestyle.....
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Pay your 150 a day for mediocre meals.
When she purchased, the all inclusive meal plan was about $30 usd a day, per person, now it's well over a hundred, maybe 150. They have to pay that in addition to their fixed rental price in addition to over 100k they got scammed out of.
The knuckle dragging people who seek out the deals on cheap Caribbean website are the smart ones. The rest stupid suckers.
There is no guarantee that you can even get a villa or a room when she wants, it's kinda 1st come 1st served, even after buying in. Lol
Going there and not getting the meal plan is an option, but a sad one.
Time shares are for sad stupid people.
I did know a guy who bought a time share for almost nothing with tiny maintenance in order to use the rci network. He worked the system.
People who bought in lifestyle.....
Lol
Pay your 150 a day for mediocre meals.
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Big
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I think they issue everyone who enters those AI resorts crocs, nascar t-shirts, stained baseball caps and ugly stick-on tattoos that say no "ragrets"
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El Rey de Mangu
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I think they issue everyone who enters those AI resorts crocs, nascar t-shirts, stained baseball caps and ugly stick-on tattoos that say no "ragrets"
"Mamma, are we rednecks?"
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Harleysrock
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I never have understood the people who do the timeshares, maybe just naive not necessarily stupid.
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beeza
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Perhaps the owners might see that they might get more occupancy if they sold through tour operators rather than timeshare. I think the timeshare bubble has burst and people are waking up to the fact that late comers into the club subside the early members. It's just a fancy pyramid scheme.
Amway anyone?
Amway anyone?
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Ecoman1949
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In my case, I simply met with the manager at POP Village years ago and said cut me a deal and this will be my winter home. I paid $3000 for unlimited use of a villa suite and a fixed $40 AI rate for as long as I stayed there. They were charging me $350 a week for the villa suite. I got my money back in about 8 weeks and I’ve been staying there for 12 years. Every now and then you can luck into a good deal if you lower your expectations. It’s a three star but the rooms are clean and the food is good. They are revamping the resort. Making it more high end and more eco friendly. It will be interesting to see if they will continue honouring the deal.
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sounds like you got a nice deal ecoman.
the only thing I find more depressing than the timeshare clientele is the casino slot clientele. The old people dragging around an oxygen tank while playing slot machines wearing bathrobes, spending their social security pensions.
the only thing I find more depressing than the timeshare clientele is the casino slot clientele. The old people dragging around an oxygen tank while playing slot machines wearing bathrobes, spending their social security pensions.
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TropicalPaul
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One of my friends used to be a manager at Lifestyles. She said that in POP / Cabarete they have 250 salespeople working. I cannot imagine anything worse than going on vacation and having 250 salespeople hounding me from morning til night to buy . a timeshare. Seriously. Awful
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El Rey de Mangu
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One of my friends used to be a manager at Lifestyles. She said that in POP / Cabarete they have 250 salespeople working. I cannot imagine anything worse than going on vacation and having 250 salespeople hounding me from morning til night to buy . a timeshare. Seriously. Awful
i don't think I've seen 250 sales people cumulatively in my entire life
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Ecoman1949
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One of my friends used to be a manager at Lifestyles. She said that in POP / Cabarete they have 250 salespeople working. I cannot imagine anything worse than going on vacation and having 250 salespeople hounding me from morning til night to buy . a timeshare. Seriously. Awful
That’s a bit of a stretch. They have a small office in Playa Dorada and I’ve been to their resorts in Cofresi and Cabarete. The main sales staff are low key until they get you in the room to negotiate. It’s the poor Dominicans they hire to get you in that room. They are numerous, work like dogs for a small commission, and are like bacteria at times, fricken everywhere. . I’m a bit of a thorn in their side. If approached by sales staff, I tell them the deal I got in Playa Dorada and ask them to match it. They walk away disgusted. Got a few taxi rides and free lunches in Cofresi and one in Cabarete doing that. It’s fun if I need a diversion. The cost to get in their door ranges from$5000 to $150,000. I saw them hustle a big Russian guy one day. He said you tell me the price. If I can afford I will buy! They knew he had them by the short and curly parts. Lol!
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Ecoman1949
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i don't think I've seen 250 sales people cumulatively in my entire life
So you’ve never been to an Evangelical convention in the DR? Jajaja!
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texan
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One of my friends used to be a manager at Lifestyles. She said that in POP / Cabarete they have 250 salespeople working. I cannot imagine anything worse than going on vacation and having 250 salespeople hounding me from morning til night to buy . a timeshare. Seriously. Awful
I have stayed there before and they did not bother us. If you tell them you are not interested or already done the tour they leave you alone. If I was looking to stay at an All Inclusive and they were running a special I would stay there again.
When we stayed there they let us drive our moped around inside the resort in Cofresi. I forget the cost but cheapcarribean.com was running a special but you had to have a passport from another country. There was a surcharge if you only had a Dominican Passport. I have no idea if they still run that same special.