Vacation Intl' SCAM??
I took a vacation offer by a company called Vacation International after visiting their office in Awqaf building next to HMC HR and going through a grueling 90 mins intense and pressurised marketing and ended up paying a 6000 QR down payment of 18000 QR. Now when I browsed the net about their service, i find that QL is full of negative remarks abt them . I am thinking of taking the matter to the authorities. However not a single person who have posted abt them has mentioned how these ppl cheat.. like
- do you not get the promised offers?
- Did you have to cancel a planned trip bcos of them?
- Were the hotels they mentioned not 5 or 4+ stars as they claimed?
- Did you have to pay anything extra at these hotels?
-Did anyone cancel their contract and have to pay 40% as they mentioned in their contract paper?
Any concrete answer from people affected will help to forward with complaining in the Consumer Protection Department.
Hi all,
If any of you is a victim of their fraud my humble suggestion is to report it to the Consumer Protection Department of the Ministry of Business and Trade. Their email is cpd/-a-t-/mbt.gov.qa. They are very helpful and can get you a refund. I wrote to them and GOT MY MONEY BACK!!!
I went to centre point Barwa village last week. And just come out of nowhere this egyptian guy asking me about vacation...holidays blablabla.. and then some key words like voucher..Dubai..holidays blablabla.
To end his promoting talk, he then asked me to come over to their office at the Bank Street for some small party with other families that agreed to come.
Back in my country...scams like this are like...pins on the floor! So I just walked away while saying..." Sorry, I can't afford it. Low income earner!"
I think they hypnotize you.
They invited us by frequent calls for an unknown family event with my kids, claiming our kids will enjoy there...It is a long story but at the end of the day we have been fooled by 2500/-.
Friend, I wrote what I had experienced. I don't want to promote them, but I used their voucher. A I told earler I don't know abt their main packages and their services. B realistic buddy....
Dear Mr.Shaju,,,are you a promoter of this scam team...?
In the early last year I attended their marketing campaign of "Vacation Int'l" and got the free hotel voucher for 3days in Dubai. I used this last January without much extra payment, but some reasonable amount for food. The hotel and food was OK. I didn’t take their membership, so don’t know how good their packages.
If you cancel the contract then you need to feed their mouth with your money again.
Suppose you have paid them 6000QR as down payment, next day if you cameback to them and want to cancel, then you have to add them more money 1200QR to complete the 7200QR (40% of 18000QR), by then you contract will be cancelled. And you get zero riyals returned.
I could not imagine how stupid of myself can be trapped that easy by them.
they are International mafia, catching only families who wish to spend their good time for holiday, they still have thier agents in most of all malls in Qatar. this practice they doing even in Dubai and India now In Qatar. some arab nationals like Egptions canvasing...please don't waste your hard earn moeny to feed looters like this. if you really need spend for your vacation and enjoy, kindly contact a good travel agency and toor oparator witch ahve expernce and reputation in Qatar like regancy,ALi bin ali lot lot more,,, run by reputed Qatar family and have expreice Expartiate staff and tie up with world airlines.
the same story here.. i too joined thinking this would be similar to the ones like back home.. like n_minie said.. im gonna try them out and make max use of it right now and then stop the installments and cancel the membership once its 40% is paid off.. however im gonna try to use their free visit to dubai offer in the coming few week itself and try.. only then will know if its a scam or not..
Wikileaks I know someone who utilised it, thats why I said, for the amount that you pay up you can get the same hotels whether 5 star or 4 star for half the price that they are offering.
By the way, how sure it is a scam? Have you tried utilising it? Back at my country, there are similar companies operating whereby you are required to attend a 90 min presentation. In the event that you decided not to join them, they will give you a 3 days 2 nights stay at one of their resorts as a token. Normally in this case, although you get the voucher you may not able to utilise it due to the limitation of the resort . ( Eg: 1000 vouchers given away but only limited rooms available ) , thus creating complains that it's a scam & they are unable to utilise the free hotel voucher.
However, if you joined them, then it's a diff side of a story. If you do plan in advance, booking a resort is not a prob. I have been on a time share since 2002 and has been utilising it every year since.
Since you already paid, try to use it & you will soon find out whether it's a scam a not. Best of luck
hmmm i am also in the same boat.. but i hvnt had the time to go for a vacation thru them. The company has been in doha for 1.5yrs.. if they r a scam i'm wondering hw it still funtions here.. So i think the post will be usefull if some ppl can comment constructively..
My part..
I too paid 6000 but it ws just recently and i havent gone for a vacation thru them yet. So i dont kno abt ur queries.. hope we both get some good relevant post if u r plannin to take it to customer protection.
not exactly a scam. but you do pay a premium for the stay in hotels. You can get rooms for half the amount that you pay to them in the same hotel.
Its a big time loot. discussed many time on QL and they are still in town.
Uh oh. Consider it a 6,000 riyal lesson. Don't give them any more! Is it a time-share type deal? http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/vacation-international-c457401.html
http://www.qatarliving.com/node/2578992
You have put a down payment for a holiday. How can you complain, without actually experiencing the vacation ?
You did what? You paid QAR 6.000 for nothing? YOU MUST be crazy!