Global Travel Network

This review is about my membership with Global Travel not the presentation although that was good. My husband and I love Global Travel! We spent a week on Kauai and a week on Maui last summer and we stayed in nice roomy condos in great locations. Used Global for a trip to Hawaii Island and stayed in a beautiful condo 1 ½ years ago and have one week reserved for Oahu (beachfront) and another week on Maui (across the street from the beach) again at the end of this summer. For this trip I checked prices for the exact condos, exact weeks directly with the resorts and we saved $ 2,281! That savings is more than we’re paying for the 2 weeks in condos, airfare and car rentals. We’ve stayed in Escondido at the Welk’s resort and Huntington Beach in a cozy studio 2 times with another week planned for July. Our fees to join have already paid for itself just in savings by staying in these Global owned condos in the almost 3 ½ years we’ve been members. The resort weeks they have on sale, the prices are insane! So glad we bought, no regrets especially after sitting in on another company’s timeshare presentation on Maui! It was so overpriced for 1 week every other year and a lot higher maintenance fee. We love to travel and being middle class this membership allows us to vacation every year in wonderful locations. When you join, charge on a credit card that gives you skymiles and then use sky miles for airfare!

Global travel has been awesome to work with. We have been able to go to some AMAZING resorts. Global travel has been efficient and easy to work with us. We were able to go to the Escondido Lawrence Welk Resort last January 2015. It was clean and beautiful. Then this summer we were able to go to the Grand Mayan in Cabo San Jose. WOW! I’d go back again tomorrow.
We used the expressway to go to Cabo. We stayed in a 5 star resort for a ridiculously low price and had the time of our lives. Had we not been members of Global travel we never would have gone. We are average middle class people and going on nice vacations has been a dream in the past, but just seemed to always be just out of reach. But because of our membership, they made it possible. Now we are looking at a cruise this Spring to Alaska. Yay!
Over the past 30 years we have gone to many time share presentations and have never truly been impressed with their programs. Global Travel offers variety and quality for a relatively reasonable price without having to be stuck with a time share condo and annual maintenance fees and having to trade weeks etc.
Hands down Global Travel has met all of our expectations and more.
We are so glad we have bought our membership with Global Travel. It has been a wonderful experience. It is the best travel company we have found and like I said, we have shopped around for years for just the right company with which to do business.
Go with Global Travel. You won’t regret it!

My wife and I have been members of Global Travel for over 8 years now and we love it. We have stayed at beautiful resorts in 2 different places in Mexico, Huntington Beach, Las Vegas (several times), Florida, Tennessee, Arizona, Colorado and Canada. Every place we stay at is a condo except for one place in Tennessee was a 3 bedroom cabin. We have given a trip to friends when they got married and our family has used it several times. We only pay $ 109 for a weeks stay because we pay the older rate. I see people complaining about the free gift and not the actual program. You just need to be aware going to the presentation that nothing is really free and does come with a catch but if you want a great way to travel this is the best program out there. 1 time in Puerto Penasco my wife and I actually went to other timeshare presentations during our trip just for gifts. Everyone gave us a meal and some great gifts or cash. We got free dune buggy rental, free horseback riding, free day trips. When we told them we belong to Global they thanked us for coming gave us our gift and told us to have a nice day because they new they couldn’t beat what I had. Yes the free trip Global offers is difficult to use but if you are flexible it may work for you. When we went we took the gift card option. Which I always think is easier. I have nothing to say negative about Global Travel we are both very happy.

I signed up to do this timeshare presentation at pin need conference in Salt Lake City. I have done timeshares in the past and always turned them down, and sometimes you get good stuff. I will evaluate the freebies at a later date, right now this review is only about the presentation. Before going I read reviews online, most were negative about the program, the freebies, or the collection process. A couple of good ones seemed to be employees. I also found 28 complaints were filed against them with the Bbb in the last 3 years and they have a b rating with them. You walk in and they have lots of awards, and lots of certificates, and the guy giving the presentation looked very professional and like he was born selling timeshares. All this builds trust and credibility, they talk a lot about dream family vacations, and luxury two to 3 bedroom condos with kitchenettes and up to 4 weeks of vacation. For your first week of vacation there’s a fee of $ 389 that they call something like an equipment, and is the equivalent of a maintenance fee – except you only pay it if you actually stay somewhere (in a timeshare it’s due even if you don’t use it). Then there is $ 179 fee for the week stay to cover costs like giving you your own travel agent to book your travel. If you vacation additional 2 – 4 weeks in the year you only owe $ 179 for each additional week. Then there’s a real quick mention of the program cost – almost $ 10k if you sign up on 1^st visit and about $ 19k if you come back. Then there’s some smarmy calculations about how these upfront fees will save you on inflation over the next twenty years. Then they divide up the group listening to the presentation and couples are assigned to sales people. I asked about the interest rate on the financing, the girl explained she is normally a secretary and doesn’t normally do the sales, but she thought it was 19%. In the sales pitch they focus on a week of vacation costing $ 179. I told her that the true yearly cost for one week of vacation for the next twenty years is $ 500 (¹⁄₂₀ of $ 10k)+389+179 or more than $ 1000 for a week of vacation before you even add in interest, or travel experiences. When you are done with the first person they take you to a manager/​closer. Here they offered a $ 4000 option, less included vacation time, and smaller rooms and it only costs $ 400 upfront and then $ 110 a month. A couple of years of paying over a thousand dollars to then pay $ 389+$ 179 to get a week of vacation? No thanks. I had paid $ 20 at pin nets conference to guarantee I’d show for the presentation, then they wanted another $ 50 today to cover taxes and fees. I said I had changed my mind and didn’t want to give them anymore money. When I signed up they said I would get a $ 50
gift card so it seems like a wash on the $ 50, except the gift card is not a true gift card it provides discounts like buy one get one free, or spend x and get y off. When I refused to pay the $ 50 they gave me the freebies anyways but I’m very skeptical because for the free vacation you have to mail stuff in, and not hearing back was something people have complained about online. I’ll do another review after I test the freebies. At this point I would say this timeshare presentation is not worth the pain for the benefits. I don’t think this product is a good deal for me, but if you do I implore you to put it on a credit card, or pay cash – don’t let them charge you a ridiculous interest rate!!!
One other thing – they build a false sense of trust on having certificates, and awards and slick sales people. They do very little to show pictures of the resorts, or where they are located. We asked to hypothetically see what was available in Ireland and there was only one location, if you want to go to London on a dream vacation there’s no location in London… you have to travel outside of London. The sales person said that’s because there’s only bed and breakfasts type hotels in London – really? Know what you’re buying! Make sure you can use it where you want to go!

Pushy salespeople. They refused to provide almost any information.
So, I did my research. Found that GTN has terrible reviews by BBB, Consumer Affairs, and almost all online review sites.
Got a call from «Quality Assurance.» I was asked why I wasnt interested. I told them that I couldnt trust a company with such poor reviews. The lady rudely told me that I was «entitled to my opinion but its just an opinion, we have great reviews.»

My wife and I attended the pitch last night and we were pleased overall. Our salesperson was TIm and he was upfront with us at every step. He knew up front that our travel priorities and budget were low. Spoiler alert: we left with a better version of the free trip.
GTN’s program as presented is excellent and is a great value. I read the other reviews and am curious their attitude and expectations when they agreed to the presentation.

Man I wish I could rate zero stars. These guys are the biggest lying, cheating, scamming, con artists. They act so nice and then they get you in and become blood sucking leaches. They’ll tell you you’re getting a hundred bucks worth of gift cards for meals just for listening to them peddle their horse shit. As it turns out, you get a hundred bucks in gift cards that you have to jump through all these hoops to redeem and then there’s a cap on how much of the redeemable cash on the card you can use in one trip to the restaurant. I redeemed 25 bucks to find out you can only use 5 bucks at month.

This place is full of it! They told me that I won a trip with flight included in a drawing. I just had to sit through a 90 min presentation. I figured I could just tell them no and the trip I «won» was mine. I figured its better than having to sit through a presentation while on vacation. Then I go through the presentation whatever it didn’t seem like a good fit for me. So I get my Voucher!!! For a free vacation that I have to follow all these instructions 1 of which is send some random company $ 50 each person. That doesn’t sound free does it! Then I check reviews that tell me people sent money and nothing happened and they had a huge head ache to deal with. Also the flight counts as one of the days on the voucher so does the return flight. What a joke! Do NOT go you won nothing I promise. See my pic of the terms and conditions of the «free trip»

Pay attention to previous reviews. I contacted the company prior to attending the sales pitch and was told by Leanne the free travel gift indeed was All Inclusive, including «total» airfair. I specifically asked if it was a credit toward airfair and total no, the «Getaway was All Inclusive, 100% Airfair and hotel”“all Inclusive» after the presentation went 2 hours beyond the 90 minute promised time we finally declined the offer. As others have stated, you attend the presentation, they offer you 20 or 40 weeks of vacation accommodations over a 20 year period that costs from $ 4500 to $ 10,000. When you finally decline they give you a voucher from a company called Global Incentives Inc. (GCI) Global Travel Network may have somehow managed to get a BBB A+ rating and solve many of the complaints related to them. GCI is NOT BBB rated and has over 1,200 complaints in the past 12 months. Again, I was told no less than three times, under direct questioning, the promotional offer was «All Inclusive, including 100% airfair» Clearly NOT true when I finally got the voucher that only allows a $ 350 credit toward airfair (which is about 50% of the current fare). Global Travel Network chooses to affiliate themselves with a company called Grand Incentives, Inc. that is clearly deceptive in their business practices. As others have stated, you must give them a Postal Service Money order of $ 50 per person, then you get a travel certificate, after that you submit 3 preference dates and locations for travel, they then tell you what is available. They only allow for «Preferred Departure» Cities that they refuse to tell until the non-​refundable fees are paid. Be aware the contract allows them to change «preferred departure cities» without notice. Also be advised they demand departure from Preferred cities to be between 3 and 10 pm and return flight to be between 5 am and 1 pm. So, plan to have some Redeye flight count as your first night at the resort or not being able to check in until several hours after your arrival at the «resort». In addition to all the fees for the weeks of reservations, plan for a $ 390 «Activity Fee» for every year, a $ 159 «Reservation Fee» for every excursion, and an additional $ 300 per week cost of the property itself. I took the chance, hoping it would less of a scam than my instincts told me. I wanted to believe, but in the the end, has to believe the program and any affiliate is a complete scam.
Global Travel Network would have you believe they are a credible company, the association with Grand Incentives, Inc. proves otherwise. I cannot stress enough how important it is to avoid business with Global Travel Network and Grand Incentives Inc. They will straight up look you in the eye and lie about the restrictions and alleged benefits! BUYER BEWARE!!!

We entered to win and ipad at a Grizzlies game. I got a voicemail in regards to my entry, they had very exciting news, blah blah blah… my heart did skip a beat. Could I have one an ipad?! I called back VERY skeptical. All I had «WON» was a free trip if I listen to a presentation. I knew exactly what this was, HOWEVER, my husband and I have had avery nice little vacation off a timeshare presentation so we decided to do it.
We actually were pretty intrigued with the overall program. You pay $ 389 fee any year you use it, no fee if you don’t use it, and $ 159 for a week in a condo. We do prefer condo type travel as opposed to hotel rooms and we do take at least one trip a year. Then comes the one time membership fee of $ 20 000!!! but wait, if you sign up TODAY it’s only $ 9900. We talked them down to $ 3500 and did consider it but ultimately you HAVE TO SIGN UP RIGHT THEN! That is what made us walk away. It’s just a good general life rule to not drop thousands of dollars on something without thinking about it and doing research. Could it have been a great deal? I have my doubts. There are mixed reviews all over the internet.
To me there were red flags.
You have to buy right then or come back and pay $ 20 000.
You have no way of seeing their ‘resorts’ online or anywhere until after you are member.
Our sales guy was working this job as a second job because he loved to travel and wanted money to do it… uh, if your deal is so sweet why do you have to have a second job to pay to use it twice a year.
Just that high pressure sales system in general where you don’t even have time to think or talk to your spouse/​significant other or research at all.
If it’s works as smoothly as they say it would sell itself. Costco, for example, does not go around pressuring people to join, people come to them
I don’t know if joining is a big scam. I think it’s more once you walk away you realize you won’t use it as much as you think/​you’ll realize other things you need to spend $ 3500 on a lot more so they really have to get your money right then. There are a lot of mixed reviews on joining, honestly some of the good ones sound planted by employee’s. They are just a little TOO pleased with things and use the same words and phrases as the sales guy. I wish we would have thought to research before going, but like I said we went through this with a timeshare and it was no fuss no muss kinda deal.
THE FREE GIFT
We could have chosen a 3 days 2 nights with airfare or week in a resort with no air fare. They did tell us before hand that we would have to pay taxes, about $ 150 per person, when we book the trip. Not entirely true. We chose the trip with airfare. The other one we would have had to pay $ 99 per person right then at the office, and maybe that would have been a better option and I dont know if there would be additional «taxes» after the $ 99.
OUR trip is a bunch of crap. Basically it is designed to deter people from using it.
We have to pay $ 50 per person ‘refundable’ through CERTIFIED POST OFFICE CHECK send it through CERTIFIED MAIL and choose 3 dates 90 days away and 30 days apart where they will then MAIL us back options and we MAIL in blah blah blah SERIOUSLY WHO BOOKS VACATIONS THROUGH MAIL IN 2013!!! Basically we would still have to pay «taxes» airfare only covers $ 250 per person you pay the rest, really where can you fly for $ 250 that is not drivable, AND you get the crappy redeyecan’tsellalltheseats flights, AND you still have to rent a car, pay for food etc. So we are bagging the whole thing and are just planning our own vacation. So our «FREE» trip would have cost us $ 500 plus I’m sure and it would be crappy flight that would screw up our short time where ever we went. Also are you really going to fly across the country to stay 2 nights in Florida or wherever you choose? No, the whole thing is designed to get more money out of you when you pay for more nights/fee’s/taxes.
I realize we went for the free trip and I’m not saying it was a huge scam that it didn’t work out, I was vey skeptical and my concerns were validated. I’m sure if I pushed and jumped through the hoops and payed the extra money I would SAVE some money, not get a FREE trip so if you are going for a free trip IT’S NOT WORTH THE TIME. If you are going out of sincere interest DO SOME MAJOR RESEARCH. That is all…

When we walked into the state fair GTN’s booth was the first thing we saw. Oh look! Awesome travel packages for just over $ 100? You only need $ 20 up front, you say? Spin the wheel for an awesome trip? Just attend a presentation for more awesome prizes?
To good to be true? Why, yes. Yes, indeed.
Why my darling better half fell for this scam is beyond me, but I was in a good mood and didn’t want to argue with him in front of the dude at the fair.
Here are the basics of our experience. Dude convinces us to pay a non-​refundable $ 20 towards a great travel package that we could redeem upon attending a travel club presentation. He also throws in a $ 50 gift certificate for dining that we will receive at that same presentation.
We schedule an appointment and go to the trouble of finding a babysitter. On the drive there, I do a little research on this so-​called vacation club. Horror stories left and right, from people that went through the whole process and actually signed up.
We arrive at Global Travel Network, ushered into a small room by a very bubbly receptionist. Offered cookies and drinks while we wait with five other couples, being tortured by a three song loop of Beach Boys «Kokomo,» Weezer’s «Holiday,» and Frank Sinatra’s «Come Fly with Me.» Just when we think we can stand not one second more of musical harassment, we are singled out to talk one-​on-​one with a sales associate in a large room that can only be described as a «bull pen.»
As directly as possible, we tell our salesman that we won’t be signing up for anything, we want to save him the trouble of going through his shpeel so we could get what was promised and get out of there. He was surprisingly understanding, but had to explain the basics of the club. It’s essentially a condo timeshare, You pay an exorbitant fee up front (anywhere from $ 5000 on up) and pay additionally when you book a condo. We said no, no y no and asked about the caveats associated with the cheap deal we were promised. The guy at the fair said we could get a eight day seven night condo for $ 119 flat, $ 20 of which we had already paid. Surprise, surprise! There were additional fees on top of that, no black out days, had to book 3 months out etc. Fine. Whatever. Forget it. We still get the $ 50 gift card for dining, right? Well, not exactly. It was a voucher for area restaurants. The kind of deal where you have to go online to get a coupon that makes you spend $ 150 to get $ 50 off sort of voucher.
Basically, we got absolutely nothing out the the deal. We got $ 25 off if we spent $ 45 at a local Indian restaurant. A lot of time and energy wasted for naught.
What a scam. Don’t let their high pressure booth dwellers suck you into their web.
By the way, I saw these same bottom-​feeders at the Home Show. I can’t believe these events allow this sort of booth. They prey on the weak, old and stupid (yes, that’s me!) Just glad we got away relatively unscathed.
Run away! Run away!