Global Travel Network

UPDATE: we spent a week at the Timothy Beach Resort on the beach in St. Kitts on Jan. 2 – 9, 2016 normally $ 200 a night ($ 1400) for FREE compliments of GTN. It was amazing. Huge, 1 bedroom condo unit with a kitchen and lovely views of the ocean and lagoon and a 3 min. walk to the beach. We loved it. We’ve been through 4 time share presentations in the past year and NO ONE has come close to the bonuses you get from the GTN presentation. Also, all the time share offers are many times more expensive for getting far less.
So in conclusion I have the following advice:
1. DO THE GTN SALES PRESENTATION AND TAKE AN AWESOME 7 DAY VACATION ON THEIR DIME!!!
2. Seriously consider becoming a member because in retrospect and in comparison to all the others we’ve looked into, I think it’s a steal and a missed opportunity that we did not sign up. We just do not trust salespeople on the whole but after the great experience we had we do trust them and would invest if we could do it all again and plan to do so in the near future.

See what Karen S. said 4 months ago. She really detailed it out rather precisely. I read all the Unilocal reviews going in, to see if I had red flags about this place, since it could easily be scammy. However, most of the negative reviews seem to be of folks not purchasing, and whining about the fine print that they clearly hadn’t read. Going into the presentation, even I knew half the stuff, as it was clearly spoken on our invite. I confirmed every other detail as I went along in the process and personally, can only conclude that these negative reviewers do not read, do not ask questions and have no common sense or sense of timeliness. Everything about this felt above board, was EXACTLY like Karen S. said (although I think some of the incentives may be slightly different… we got some better deals than she seemed to).
We did purchase through them today, which shocked me, because I had 0 intent of this. We greatly look forward to working with them and traveling a lot with our family. It is worth 90 mins of your time for the incentives alone. And you may be pleasantly surprised with a new travel philosophy!

We have been members for 3 years and actually find it quite good. We travel a lot and have used this company’s program about 15 times without any glitches. Whenever we have questions or issues, the reps have been helpful, polite and friendly. We did try booking through the travel agency arm but found it to be just as limiting as any other agency or the airlines.
The only negative: lately we were asked to come in for a program update, which was a sales pitch to increase our benefits for a «mere» $ 1800. We decided after much discussion and research (in their office) to upgrade. Uh oh… the «deal» we signed is not being reflected on our account. OK, no biggie, we can have that corrected. EXCEPT! NO one seems to be able to correct the errors and so far, after two weeks of trying to work with them, NO ONE seems to be able to answer my emails or return my calls.
So, a charge card challenge is in store.
But overall, if one uses the program and doesn’t mind staying in resorts or condos out of city centers (a couple have been kinda remote, but worth it) then this is a good program. Where else can one spend a week in a resort or condo for what usually would cost per night…

Probably not worth your time and money. Global Travel Network gave us the 4 days and 3 nights offer by Grand Incentives after aggressively trying to sell their business. So we sent all the paperwork and $ 100 deposit. Grand Incentives cashed the deposit right away, but never heard back from them until I called them repeatedly to ask what’s going on (941−552−5070). First they said wait a mont for processing, and then they said our offer was voided because we didn’t send by Certified Mail (sure didn’t stop them from cashing our money order). They say they’ll send a refund in a few weeks, but I’m not holding my breath. Even if our offer went through, based on reviews of Grand Incentives, it sounds like a nightmare to claim.

DON’T DO IT!!! This is a very shady and deceiving operation. Look for BBB and 9News warnings. Not worth your time for the gifts they promise. The dining gift card is for
and the Southwest travel gift card, which they conveniently ran out of, is a voucher that is not worth the trouble.

I went to the California State Fair in July of this year and filled out my information on a computer. I received a call back last week saying that I had won a vacation. I talked to this guy named Chris several times before I made any commitments. I won three vacations one of my choosing so I chose the 5 day 4 night cruise to Mexico all I have to pay is sales tax estimate is $ 400. He said all I had to do is go to Denver which is 8 – 9 hours from where I live sit through a 90 minute seminar explaining the company and then I would get my vacation. I decided what the hell so my man and I left our home at 6:30am today and got to Denver just in time for my appointment at 3:30pm. We talked with an agent for a minute or so a little bit about the company. After, we went into a room with a few other couples and listened to another agent talk about the company, what it offers and how it works. Once done with that we went back to the first agent and she explained what we get and for how much. We told them we were not interested got our cruise and left. It was about 5:30pm. Everything Chris told me was true, I got the vacation and it will only cost what I said but Global Travel I feel just want your money! They didn’t have air conditioning in their building, they served us tap water which was nasty. All they are is just pushy salesman. If we took their offer right then it would have cost us $ 3,000-$ 10,000 if we decide later to take the offer it would be close to $ 19,000! You think they would have been more professional and not so cheesy for trying to get that kind of money out of us. At least I got my cruise ;)

A SCAM! they will not give you what they promised to sit through their meeting. 9NEWS and BBB have also alerted the public about them.

Some buddies of mine thought it would be funny to sign me up for this at the Sportsmen’s show this year… you can’t believe the phone calls… they are relentless! I won an award! Come down in person with your wife and choose your free trip! I’ve told them 3x to get me off their list and still get calls daily. I figure if it has to be sold this hard, can’t be worth much.

I received several phone calls from this company. They don’t put their business name on the caller ID, just a local phone number. They have called both my home and cell numbers. I finally answered one of their calls. The person asked if I remembered registering for a prize at the Taste of Colorado? I said I did and they told me that I hadn’t won the prize but I was eligible for a free trip for two. I asked them who won the prize? They didn’t know and when I kept questioning them about who won, the became very flustered. I told them that this was a scam and don’t call me again. Global Travel Network was featured on a 9 wants to know. Stay far, far away from these scammers!

I would have to agree with the last review. The membership really doesn’t offer that much when you take into account the cost of membership and yearly fees. Plus, 3 plus hours of your time really takes up your day.
The freebies to get you to come have so many restrictions that you wont use them and are incredibly difficult to redeem. They also lied and told us that we could use our week on two separate weekends but on attending were told it has to be all one week. They said «hey, if you’re in Denver and ski you can use the freebie for a couple of free weekends accommodation» so first on attending they changed that to only one week and they didn’t tell us the the ski season is a black out date and you can’t stay during that period.
Maybe for some people membership would work, I don’t know. But if you have an appointment just to get your freebie — GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!! — and yes you are better to cut your losses with the $ 20 deposit.

I hope that everyone is smart enough to know that this place is a scam. If you know that going into your indoctrination meeting you should be able to get through that.
The freebies (trips, cruises, etc…) that the salespeople tout throughout the meeting seem great, but be very wary because there are a lot of restrictions that the salesperson won’t disclose.
In addition to that redeeming the vouchers is like trying to plan a vacation in the stone age. There are numerous steps that the company hopes you will mess up so that they won’t have to honor your trip.
I would recommend steering clear because the whole process isn’t worth your time.