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Charleston Free Room and Entertainment
By chris | August 31, 2010
| We visited the outlets and Bass Pro shop stuck out like a sore thumb. Naturally they would have some comfy flip flops for my poor feet. As we were walking around we were offered an opportunity to visit one of the Blue Green Resort properties, with $100 deposit.
We would get $25 gift card now to spend an the remaining $75 after we sit through a 90min presentation and our hotel would be paid for for the 2 nights we were there. They had several locations, we figured why not, we get our money back. |
We planned on using it for our one year anniversary. Cheap trip to celebrate right? Since it’s was our first and the room was paid for I decided we should splurge and take $500 and really see what we can see and eat what we can eat.
We arrived in Charleston about 8:30 Saturday morning after driving through the night. We stopped at the welcome center for obvious reasons. Jeff, the visitor center employee ask us how would you like to experience the city for free. FREE I replied, he explained that if we would go sit in on a 90 minute presentation about new condos/ time share we would get a choice of a variety of things. We got to choose 3. We were up for anything, it was only 9am so not many things were going on.
Then he scheduled an appointment for 9:30. It was 9 by now and we figure why not? It will help us prepare for our presentation tomorrow, you know the guys that paid for our room.
We arrived at mystic resorts at 9:30, met our salesman and chit chatted for about 30 min. Now it got serious they turned the pressure up, and didn’t like to hear no, after about 3 times saying “no were not interested” my wife spoke up and said look we’ve been here going on 4 hours, give us our gifts and were leaving.
We were so furious when we got out of there. There product sounds good, but not good right now. They just couldn’t understand the words “no thank you” eventually after the 3rd no they finally gave us our gift cards and we high tail out of there.
We finally got out of there and got some lunch. We planned on breakfast. Ha I wish…..
So ask me, what was 4 hours of our time worth?
About $200.00 worth of gifts.
1. Hour horse carriage tour around town.
2. Day passes to a 500 acre plantation.
3. Ghost tour at the old haunted jail.
Was it worth all that? Absolutely not.
But wait we still had to do the same thing again tomorrow, with a different company. We trying to enjoy what was left of our day and night, but in the back of our heads we knew we had to do it all again the next morning.
Morning came and we drug ourselves out of bed and to the Blue Green Resorts presentation. We were prepared to put a muddle on this guy and tell them were not interested from the start. Well 4 more hours we finally got out alive. 2 night hotel stay for 4 hours of terrible conversations, not worth it at all.
We enjoyed the rest of our anniversary , ate some great food and did a lot of sight seeing.
The story of this post, is free never equals free. I like to thank my time is valuable. Our time on our 1st year anniversary was with double or more what my time is usually worth for obvious reasons. I wish I was able to bill them for our time they wasted.
Stay away from the Blue Green resort people and any one else trying to sell you a vacation club membership!!!!!
Learn from our experience
If someone offers you a 3day 2night package, I advise you tell them to keep it. This post was definitely a long one, thanks for hanging around. If you have had a similar experience I’d love to hear about it.
Would I do it again? Absolutely not. Never ever ever….. Were frugally cheap but this 8 hours of our weekend was wasted, please enjoy your vacations don’t spend them in high pressure rooms.
Topics: Entertainment Savings, Frugal Living, Lessons Learned | 1 Comment »
December 13th, 2010 at 11:43 am
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