Traveltogo VIP Plus Scams

Reality – results of our actual inquiries for real trips

Traveltogo promised More condos, etc than RCI

Doesn’t even have what RCI currently does

Traveltogo promised Up to 75% off wide inventory

Extremely limited, and mostly off season or unpopular areas [eg, Gulf coast after the oil spill]

Traveltogo promised Colorado ski condos

had only ones that RCI almost always has on excess inventory. A request has been unanswered since Nov 2009. 

Traveltogo promised Oregon Coast condos

Only 2 cities listed and with same condos as rci

Traveltogo promised Europe  tours for 7 -10 days for cost of airfare

None  actually available

Traveltogo promised 2 for 1 air fares

almost impossible to actually use - Have to give 2 possible dates 45 days apart – how can we plan with such a huge difference in dates?

Traveltogo promised $300 merchandise savings

really a 10% rebate after going thru elaborate process - Took almost a moth to get us the info, then it arrived with a 5 day signup period when they knew we were on a 6 wk vacation [NOT booked thru Traveltogo

Traveltogo promised 40-50% savings on international airfares

They can’t even MATCH what we find easily online

o   We got airfrance to geneva for $780 [Feb 2010] they quoted $850

o   We got round trip to  delhi for $1200 [ Nov 2009]– their  quote over $1300o    

Traveltogo promised Hot weeks of excess inventory for low prices and specifically unavailable from RCI

o   consist primarily of excess inventory at Branson, Orlando, and other overpopulated resorts.  On 12/29/09 – only 1 listed, rci at that time had 533 resorts, 5900 units in their excess inventory

Traveltogo promised specialty in cruises and tours.

·         Train tours across US or Canada – nothing offered

·         Danube river cruise – came back with a more expensive tour, again Travel to go cou;dn’t match what we found online.

At presentation, were told that there were no complaints with BBB or state consumer protection agencies against Traveltogo

– in fact there are dozens in a simple search “travel to go scam” on google

o   In fact they are NOT accredited w BBB and web searches revealed San Diego had kicked them out for bad business practices –

o   In fact there HAD been 54 complaints in the last 36 months,

o   12/29/2009 San Diego BBB says Travel to GO’s business license Attorney General/Seller of Travel Program would expire 8/20/2009

Presenters spoke of travel 2 go as THEIR company

·         Once we bought a package, Travel to go disclaimed anything the presenters said, The presenters had never made the point that they were ‘simply’ a distributor for travel 2 go.