Anyone use Mini Vacations Inc. for Cruise

We have won a 7 day cruise (for looking at a time share) through Mini Vacation Inc. with either RCCL, NCL, or Carinval. We have wanted to try a RCCL cruise and were wondering if anyone has dealt with this company or have had the same experience.

Thanks

You've "WON" NOTHING... That's an old scam... You'll end up paying as much or more as you would if you'd just gone out and booked the cruise you wanted in the first place.

Read all the responses you got on your other post about that... http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=159139

I know many people desperately want to believe they're getting something for nothing, but life just doesn't work that way!

Click on the link the above poster provided. Scroll down to the bottom where is says " this is an offer to sell travel". That should tell you something.

I don't think posting the same question in the same forum 18 hours later will result in significantly different answers.

You are free to chose to do business with whoever you want to. But remember, people who know better who choose to do business with disreputable firms anyway is how these firms stay in business and rip off even more customers down the road. Future victims who don't know any better because they don't have the knowledge resources you do will have you to thank.

Should you choose to patronize them, of course.

Theron

We have won a 7 day cruise (for looking at a time share) through Mini Vacation Inc. with either RCCL, NCL, or Carinval. We have wanted to try a RCCL cruise and were wondering if anyone has dealt with this company or have had the same experience.

I would stay away from this company. Theres no "free lunch" out there and in the end you get get what you pay for.

I think this poster works for this company and thinks that if he keeps posting on mulitple threads enough people will atleast visti their website and request information. Just my thoughts, why else woul dhe post the same thread?

Could be or they just want to believe so badly they're waiting for the one person to tell them what they want to hear. :rolleyes:

My take on this company hasn't changed. MVI is one of the WORST companies to do business with. It took over 18 months to get our "free" vegas vacation of airfare and hotel room. The phone numbers they provide lead to recorded messages with no way to reach an actual person. Once you send in your choice of dates to travel they tell you they couldn't get those dates for you and do this within 4 weeks of when you were supposed to go on vacation (work just LOVES mult. vacation requests and then cancelations). There are NUMEROUS complaints about MVI if you JUST search the internet for information about them. It took them close to 12 months (I could've been longer) for them to refund our $50 deposit once travel had been completed and all forms turned in.

In short, this company is a joke and no matter how much you might want it to be different, it's not. Face it, you've been shafted out of your time by attending a TS presentation to get a free cruise.

I own 6 timeshares myself and have been on numerous presentations. You've just learned leason #1. Timeshare developers and their sales staff are not the most honest individuals you will meet. They'll promise you the moon to get you into the presentation and then they don't always deliver.

On our last presentation we were awarded two tickets to see George Wallace in Vegas. Which was fine. What wasn't fine was the "$200" in free slot play. It wasn't fine because it wasn't real slot play. Instead, it was free play on promotional machines that very rarely pay out. I even asked the guy specifically if they were the promotional machines or machines where I could cash out any credits I won. He said sure they are. Otherwise it'd be a ripoff.

Having been down this road before I knew that he was either lying through his teeth or he'd never actually gone down the the Casino Royal to check it out for himself. Eiher way it wasn't as advertised.

So you have a choice. You can either take your lumps and chalk it up to experience or you can send in your deposit and play games with them until you finally give up. If you really want to go on this "free" cruise, then you'd better get a phone # where you can talk to a live person. It's the only way you'll ever get to go anywhere.

By the way, most of these list a couple of big name companies and then another one that LOOKS like, but isn't, Royal Caribbean. I've seen this ship and it's one of the oldest, crummiest cruise ships I've ever seen. Look real good to make sure than only the companies you listed on your last post are on that certificate. Otherwise you'll be on a tug boat in the middle of the ocean rather than a cruise ship.