Made the mistake of buying into this in 2018. Save a couple bucks (basically tax) on hotels before COVID hit. Did not renew for several years till Nov of 25 when I spoke with a salesperson asking to renew for two years at a big discount. Opted for one. Now...webcite down, no answer to my written request for a trip, phone numbers say "all offices closed due to COVID" and "call your concierge". No one picks up. They are scammers and they are gone.... read more

JUST DON'T! Please read my story. We were initially drawn in by a free cruise offer and ended up spending over $9000 for us and other family members, a 1x purchase which we felt was justified due to a convincing presentation and no recurring annual membership fees. To their credit, shortly thereafter, Luxury Vacations In Paradise helped us book a Bahamas vacation, saving us a few hundred dollars off of what we could find ourselves. So far so good. Sadly, what has transpired over the years since has revealed the true integrity of the company. - Unanswered calls and lost emails. If you do get in touch with a person, Paula or Shawn Banks, your requests are ignored or forgotten. - A customer portal website to browse for deals and "Hot Weeks" has been removed and taken offline. It's a classic bait and switch operation. I'm writing this to spare someone else the headaches we've had to endure. Please don't be lured in by any free offers or promises of savings. Run from Shawn Banks, Paula, and Scott. Please pay attention to the consistent 1-star reviews claiming fraudulent dealings. These are from real people who were scammed from real money. I'm contributing my account to hopefully advise someone else who is researching this company. Luxury Vacations In Paradise 300 Lock Rd STE 301 Deerfield Beach, FL 33442 954-531-1459 Vacations Plus Travel, Inc. Banner Elk, North Carolina 1-866-207-4740 | 954-531-1459 luxuryvacationsinparadise.com read more

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They start paying you the commissions but then they stop. Don't fall for this! For starters you have to travel a LOT to even break even much less make money in the future. read more

Would rather give zero stars. We so regret losing the thousands we gave to this company. Please learn from our mistake. We have used their service once in several years. It worked ok. But the real problem is the availability and ease of access. I have had to email or call repeatedly before anyone responds. Then they research my wishes and, weeks later, maybe they will call again, to say nothing is available. There are so many easy tools out there for travel and vacations. I don't even trust this company to give any more money to. Very bitterly disappointed. They should be ashamed of their "services". read more

I wish I could give this outfit no stars and want to warn others about them. After being hounded for a week to attend the "presentation" that I reluctantly agreed to I was just berated by "Brian" (fake name) for changing my mind and deciding not to attend. When he asked why, I let him know I was turned off when he told me "if I did not show up he would get fired". I said this was not professional and gave me pause to spend my time looking into this deal. At that point he called me names I will not repeat here and said I was going to disappoint his sponsors. He then challenged me to hang up on him which I planned to do after letting him know I was a potential customer who will now be posting a negative review. He stated he did not care and hung up on me. Run away if you get a call from these guys!! read more

I will not come right out and call this place and their offer a scam, but I do caution everyone to do some homework. Many questions I asked could not be answered within the 72 hour cancellation period offered in All Florida contracts. Timing is everything and I met with them the day before their 2 day weekend started. So we cancelled our contact rather than move forward. They were very gracious and immediately agreed to the cancellation. This company also does business as VIP Travel. read more

Dear BLAKE...For starters, get some help that speaks clear English. Honestly, your shooting yourself in the foot from jump when your representative calls me and I can't even understand her. Didn't you ever hear the saying that 'Put your best foot forward'? After the first part of the schpiel, I get passed off to a "manager" who, while has a thick accent, is mostly understandable. However, he is promising me 2 roundtrip tickets at no cost and NEVER does he mention the refundable deposit that is mentioned over and over here in the reviews and then confirmed in your response to a review. Even AFTER I asked CLEARLY if there was ANY cost associated with these free tickets. Don't play semantics. Then, you made a big mistake by responding to a negative review at length defending the "criminal" "Douchebag" employee. I agree, not nice and uncalled for, but you should NEVER give those kinds of comments LEGS. Start my giving a desk job to the employees that do not have a good command of the english language, keeping them employed, but not engaging with potential customers. Huge turnoff and seemingly unprofessional and sketchy. And hire some real phone sales people that aren't reading from a script. And have those new phone sales people disclose up front the "refundable" fee. People appreciate TRUTH AND TRANSPARENCY and then you might get more REAL people to check out what you are offering. If legit, you should have no problem being straight. read more

Stay away from this scammers they promise you free cruise or free hotel stay all are just a lie. I am so concern about the older folks they don't care they wills scam you i when for the 90 min presentation I saw many older people and they will fall for it. I did too first they said it's free 7 night cruise and pick up your ticket after the presentation. There are no tickets they give you a paper you need to mail to the GUN marketing in Tarpon Springs Florida. Then you will get a paper in mail from a company called vacation advisor in new smyrana beach asking you to send 199 in order to get a discounted cruiser ticket all scam you will get better discount going directly to the cruise company. There vacation scheme is a fraud. Stay away old people don't read the reviews that what they cater for and the target someone need to file a company against these scammers . read more

Luxury Vacations In Paradise - They clam the tickets but there is no tickets that what they give you after the 90 min presentation - Travel Services Near Me - Deerfield Beach, Florida

Please do not buy this product. I unfortunately did and find the savings to be minimal. Often times where you want to stay is unavailable. Condo availability is limited by location and dates. If considering the product ask them to see the data base and compare to other discount travel sites. There may be a slight difference in price. Sometimes literally by $1 and because they are $1 less it counts as cheaper than the completion. You just paid thousands of dollars to save not even hundreds The concierge is not available to help or make reservations on weekends. I have left messages when they weren't the lowest price and not received calls back. This product may have been great before the existence of other discount travel sites but modern internet services render it an investment that is not worth it. Update: I stand by my original review. I was told no annual fee and received a call from a woman in North Carolina telling me the package I bought did not have an annual fee. Then received a call yesterday asking for said fee and saying they had never heard of such a thing. I need to check my paperwork. It's a rip off. You can do better with any vacation rental or discount website. Buyer beware. read more

*12/7/17. I don't believe it but these morons called me yet again. This time they were with Holiday Inn and I was getting a free 3 night stay, airfare and an Android tablet for coming to their presentation. This is clearly an offshore call center because I have them an absolutely obscene name to make my reservation and they were clueless. At this point I actually look forward to their monthly call and try to see how long I can waste their time on the phone. This is easily the worst marketing strategy I've ever seen and am amazed if people still fall for this "free vacation" stuff just to come In to a hard sell vacation membership club. read more

This is the second time went to the presentation for this company. It use to be called Vacations in Paradise. The last time I went they offered free 2 rt airfare tickets with a 2 night hotel stay anywhere in the US. After paying a $100 deposit I was finally giving a contact number to book the reservation only to find out it cost $300 with fees/taxes. We were going to San Francisco from Florida, and thought well it is cheaper than booking directly. Unfortunately you can't add extra hotel days at your own cost! It makes no sense to go that far for one day there! So I got a refund and booked my own trip. In Nov 2017 I get a call from them now known as VIP Travel, offering a 2 night stay in Orlando and 2 theme park tickets. After the presentation I find out that you have to give them a refundable deposit for taxes, but don't explain there is an additional $250 in non refundable fees! The hotel is an "economy hotel" in Orlando (45/night on hotels.com). Oh and you can only go on Monday or Tuesday! I sincerely went to check out the membership, not for the freebie. Let me tell you it starts out at 13K, and by the time I left they were offering the membership for $2600. Of course you can't check out what the actual deals are they will get until you are a member (lol). In the presentation they will tell you are getting half off on my packages/hotels/cruises...most the time, then the quickly mention sometimes it is only 10 percent. Don't waste your money you are better off negotiating your vacations directly yourself. read more

NOT WHAT THEY REPRESENT: They say several times "free air fare, hotel & cruise; you just pay government taxes & cruise line port fees". After the two hour pitch they hand you a voucher on your way out, requiring you to sign confirming you read the T's & C's (all 32 paragraphs of fine print). Look at the following clauses: AIR /HOTEL cl#4 $100 account creation fee; cl#6 $99 pp processing fee. CRUISE cl#4 $75 account creation fee; cl#5 pp "cruise fulfillment fee" (in ADDITION to port charges & government taxes). They require payment of $100 + 75 + 7.95 = $182.95 before they will even talk to you about what free trips are available. THEN there are additional "Fulfillment FEES" of hundreds of dollars if you want to take the trip on top of Government taxes & port fees. You decide if this is an honest offer read more

They hung up on me once I mentioned by partner and I are 19. I believe they're a scam too.

I attended presentation with my partner. We liked what we saw so we purchased the platinum package! Definitely looking forward to our first trip with Luxury Vacations Paradise and saving money for other trips in the future. read more

I am so glad I found these reviews regarding the phone call I received this morning. I could barely understand the thick Indian accent of the two people I spoke with. The first person did say the airline tickets were on Southwest. The second person said any airline, travel anywhere but I had to listen to a 90 minute presentation. It began to remind me of a high pressure time share situation. I asked the cost, he said there was none. Meanwhile I'm looking at the www.luxuryvacationinparadise.com website which shows two high priced options in Cape Coral FL. There was no reference to any free airline or hotel stays. None of this was making any sense. I smelled a rat and cancelled my appointment. read more

TOTAL SCAM!!! They call for a presentation, if you attend you get a "free" airline ticket for 2 and a 2/3 night stay in a hotel. They start out at $11k to join their travel club and then "today" you get it for $7k. We were actually dumb enough to think we would join as we travel all throughout the year... we ask a few questions and the guy gets all nervous, won't look at us, jumps around, won't give us any answers to our questions etc. in fact they wouldn't as much give us their true company name. I asked before we signed up to look up a hotel for us in a location we are going to be in next month and he says "oh it's hard to book there..." I asked to see the website, he said you have to be a member. So he leaves the room comes back and is showing us the rates... I got the website off of where he was looking and it linked back to this one. I asked for a business card, no one answered, I asked if we wanted to sign up tomorrow we need to know the company name, one guy said today is the only day (although the presentation stated we could sign up at any time) then they tell us we have a 3 day federal law to cancel but, our membership wouldn't be active for 30 days or more! It should be instant! Regardless, it's a scam no doubt about it and I warn each of you to ask questions as their true side will come out and there is no website and they claim their name is Vacations International during the presentation but, this company is who they are linked to!!! Oh BTW they told us the free airline ticket and hotel is through a 3rd party company and we could pay them $138 for our deposit for the tickets etc. ALL A LIE!!!!! I feel sorry for the people who doesn't ask questions and sign up for this absolute garbage. read more

DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME & MONEY. You don't get the incentives at the end unless you pay for it. What a joke. Lots of misleading information. Be aware! read more

This IS a Scam! They practice false advertising, promise things they know are wrong and do not at all stand behind what they advertise. Nothing but issues and keep finding better pricing elsewhere on top of everything. We ended up having to pay for our vacation twice since the resort they advertised in the middle of Breckenridge with ski-in, ski-out amenities, pools, etc. ended up being a bed and breakfast 15 miles outside of Breckenridge with a tiny room, a community bathroom and an hour of driving to the next ski lift. When confronted, they just say that they do not guarantee anything - we are SOL. How they are still in business, is a miracle to me! read more

My Fiancé and I attended the presentation today and received the gift that they promised even if we didn't become members. Unfortunately we are paying for our own wedding this December and are on an extremely strict budget, so we couldn't sign up. Everyone was friendly and professional and we decided that we will definitely reach out to them once we're financially able to become members and see what prices they have to offer then. Thanks LVIP, you guys made a great impression on us and those prices for the vacations looked amazing. Can't wait to contact you guys first thing 2018. read more

Luxury Vacations in Paradise turned out to be a major scam. I tried to book a vacation a few days after I became a member. I was told I had to wait five days for a response. In the presentation they talked about a booking in 15 minutes. When I got a reply, it was not in the island I requested. It was in a remote part of another island. The rates they offered were more than those on other internet sites for the same hotels. They have not responded to any of my attempts to contact them with my complaints, and my request for a refund of my membership. I have made numerous phone calls and sent three registered letters. A person who puts out over $10,000 for a membership does not appreciate a "gift/prize" of a weekend in a Howard Johnson hotel What a joke! They present themselves as a travel agency. Beware! THEY ARE SCAM ARTISTS plain and simple read more

do not spend your money here. i called several times to book vacations one was for a group consisting of 15-20 cabins on a cruise have yet to receive information or even a call. i wish i could get my money back. the worst customer service ever experience. read more

We attended yesterday and are trying to reach people to cancel our contract and no one is available by phone. I am ready to go to the office and tell all their potential customers what it really is.... read more

I attended their presentation summer of 2018, they offer many great trips or rentals if you join "the Club" They tell you if you buy right away you can get a membership for $12,000 then send you out to your salesman, within 5 minutes he lowered the price to $7,000 and in another 20 minutes the price was $5,000 That is the amount we paid. I found out later that prices went down to the high $2,000's you don't get your sign on info for about a month after paying which limits any chance of getting your money refunded.I used their site in Dec. 2018 to ask information about the size of beds in one of their listings, it took 3 days for someone to respond to me, they never did answer my question but tried to send me to other listings in which I had no interest. They wanted $200 to renew my member ship for 2019. I don't feel their service was worth 2 cents, I am out $5000- live and learn! Think Long and Hard before purchasing this membership John A read more

Do NOT fall for the pitch. Voucher system, lied about gift card and gifts. Go with the "if it is too good to be true it is". IT applies HERE. Then when they were confronted about it rudely said ok you can leave turned their back and walked away. RUDE!!!! Manager was obnoxiously rude. Never again. STAY AWAY!!!! read more

Extremely disappointing. Sat through a 2.5 hour presentation (which was supposed to only be 1.5 hours), left 10 minutes early, and never got free day trip as promised. Don't fall for their scam. read more

It's a scam. I got a random phone call from my current city saying I won a 2018 ford explorer, 5 day Carnival cruise and a 40" Smart TV...all I have to do to claim is come on down to Deerfield Beach. Luckily he gave me the address and I got to look at these reviews! If it's too good to be true it is!!! read more

I got the call, the claim to be Southwest Airlines and are running a promotion for their new reservation center. I've worked in a ton of call centers in the Boca area, these guys are in India. They have nothing to do with the Southwest Airlines and it's clearly a scam. read more

scams from the beginning you will receive a letter with a free cruise go there,2 hours of speech with at least 3 couple than are for the scam sale you a package of savings in travels about 10000 2nd step don't buy nothing and they give you a advertising with a voucher that you have to paid to send dont get free nothing ,to get your discount ticket you will have to paid 100 dollar registration pluss fees tax and 500 for person read more

I don't know if this business is A - ok or not, I received a phone call inviting me to a presentation with the promise of 2 free airline tickets, also 2 nights comp in a hotel, and a $100 dining card. I asked the name of the business, location also made an appointment to go visit them. But I wanted to check them out first and now I have. I was not told on the phone that the 2 airline tickets would require a refundable deposit . Truth is we may not even want to fly any place ( hate flying now days ) but a couple open ticket would have been great. In case we did want to fly someplace. The agent on the phone was nice, Bernadette, but really, a drive all the way to Deerfield Beach for us in south Palmetto Bay , Miami, is just too far to maybe get a couple of tickets we may not use, also not willing to pay a refundable deposit for tickets we may not use. This owner, Blake, sounds very much on the level and I wish the travel agency was not so far from us. We would love good rates for cruises but my flying days are over considering the present atmosphere of air travel. Had I been told of the 'refundable deposit ' I would not have made an appointment with them. read more

There was a problem with the marketing company of the giveaway they were offering. This has been resolved.

Received a call regarding the complimentary airline tickets, questioned the caller about the non refundable fee he denied such fee and insisted I come in then I asked about the fee again and he hung up on me. Rude, waste of my time. read more

This company will harrass you forever BEWARE! There are hidden fees and cost to these supposedly free gifts. Even though I went once, and said to leave me alone. They call my phone twice a month for almost 2 yrs now. I tell them to get lost, to put me on their no call list, but they don't STOP. They won't leave me alone and I need to contact the authorities. NO legit company would act like this. When it starts out wrong it ends wrong. I hope they go out of business . Don't patronize them. I am sure some of these 5 star reviews are fake. (((Update))) : I finally got a hold of a manager Todd Funk I told him the calls are affecting my business and are coming in twice a week now. He said he would take care of it , but the calls continue. I called him a third time to complain , but he never called me back. I feel compelled to write reviews because this company has harrassed me for years and now ignores to even stop it and to leave me alone. It amazes me they condone this behavior to interfere with someones life. I will even provide you with the numbers that are calling me over and over again. 954-326-5487, 954-465-8794, 754-967-8487, 754-202-1730 They give fake names like Alex Martinez and Megan Lee. Don't give them your business Real Low Class Jerks read more

This review is specifically for Shawn Banks, as she is the only agent I have encountered and I can't imagine anyone being better. My family has booked multiple vacations through Shawn, including annoying multi-leg international trips and multi-family domestic trips. I always get stuck planning these outings, which can prove to be a thankless job. Shawn senses my angst and has completely off-loaded this burden. She is kind and professional, and she always thinks of things I forget. We mostly communicate via email, but when she calls me her voice is so calming that I almost wish I was more able to answer the phone during the day. I feel like most agents can probably get you a good discount, but Shawn is awesome because she really cares about me! She knows me well now, and she helps keep our family on the straight and narrow in all of our travel plans. My email salutation to her always is, "you're my favorite"...because she is! read more

I went to a presentation back in January of 2018. While in the presentation they first said the package costs 20k+ to have access to a website to get discounts. When the presentation was over they said if anyone wanted the package for 10k to raise the hand now because it was the last opportunity, obviously someone did, not me. After the presentation they take you to a sales rep, if you say no they lower it to 7k and so on. They got me all the way down to 3k and $300 a year for a suppose discount. They claim they give a lot if discounts but they do not, sometimes it's $100 dollars savings. How can that be a discount if 3k were given plus the yearly fee? I tried to cancel to get my money back but they wouldn't do it. They said I was over the 10 days period but it takes them about 10 days to setup the whole account which is what makes this a scam and a fraud. I'm going to report them to BBB for their malpractice and not having the customer needs in their views. I've used the site ONE time because the places I've gone to they do not have discounts or it's cheaper to get a package on Groupon or another vacation website. At this point if I could get 50% of my money it'd be a blessing because I literally feel that they stole from me with my consent because the product I received was subpar to say the least. read more

I went to this "Vacation Company" in the good faith that It would be legit. Luxury Vacations is a SCAM and FRAUD. They wanted me to purchase 5000+ to join a membership, and to "help" me pay they would get me a credit card with no interest. my friend who decided to join did NOT get that, instead she got 21% interest. They LIE to you. NOT TO MENTION when i walked it smelt like weed very bad, near the font.. Also, the "gifts" that you receive are a JOKE. They dont work.. read more