20/20 Royal Holiday Timeshare Investigation - - Timeshare Rescue

[sabe0505]

This company is a fraud! They sell you memberships anywhere from $3,500 to $30,000 promising you and telling you that you can stay UNLIMITED NIGHTS FOR FREE BUT ALL IN ALL AT THE END IS ALL A COMPLETE FRAUD.....They just rip you off....Avoid them...Trust me, if yo do not want to loose your money ...

Royal Holiday is indeed a complete rip off!!!! Total fraud!!! Don't get caught on it!!!

[drummerjacob]

timeshare sellers are scams, the timeshares themselves are scams, RCI and II are scams, just get a damn hotel and quit bitchin. we've known this is a scam scene for over a decade.

[hawaiivacationer]

I didn't buy my timeshare as an investment and am willing to pay reasonable maintenance fees every year. BUT, Diamond Resorts purchased the Point at Poipu property a few years ago and have raised the fees unreasonably each year. This year, we were given 2 months notice to pay $3500! No option to pay on a payment plan - either pay it all immediately or be foreclosed on and ruin our credit! We can't sell the timeshare and we can't pay. This type of extortion should be illegal!

[jlagozzino]

We have a Royal Holiday membership and love it. In two years, we have travelled to Puerto Rico (condo), Punta Cana (all-inclusive), CanCun (all-inclusive), Cozumel (all-inclusive), Ixtapa (all-inclusive), San Jose del Cabo (condo). We're going to Cozumel again for a diving trip this Thanksgiving and have a condo booked in Puerto Vallarta for New Years. The service that we have received at each of these locations has been very personalized and attentive.

[richfortin]

We are presently in Punta Cana and just attended this presentation. We were told it would be about 1 hour, however it ended up lasting 2 and half hours! They are very good salespeople. Since we never buy on the spot, we told them we needed the night to think about it. Thank you for this investigation. It made our decision so much easier!!

[elgordo2965]

Wife and I Just got back from vacation with Royal Holiday and they did the your membership does not include suites only studio rooms and only at Royal Park. I told them but when my wife joined and paid the $3700.00 member fee we were told we had access to Grand Royal and the villas we only had to pay extra if we wanted to those rooms. We got stuck with a studio in Park Royal for $820.00 7 day stay.Rooms go for $160.7 day stay for this time of month.Do not buy this Program it is a rip off.

[rentalhome3]

We bought about 5 years ago and it`s been a nightmare ever since. Our maintence fees started at $350 and year and weretold they would never go up. Now they are $500 and will be even more if a hurricane hits any of their hotels. The hotels we`ve stayed at are awful. Their all inculsive hotel charge you $60 per person per day and you have no choice but to pay it. Stay away from this company.

[saber1802]

Ahora estan estafando con cupones llenados en Cafe Martinez de Alto Las Condes!!

[DarioJared]

Soy de Iquique Chile, estuvimos junto a mi esposa muy entusiasmados en comprar la oferta que nos estaban dando, gracias a Dios tengo un sexto sentido y no me decidi de inmediato. Espero que estos estafadores la paguen algun dia.

[tonyaringle]

We have been Royal Holiday members for 15 years and are completely satisfied. Even now as I type I am on the oversized balcony of my suite at Park Royal Cozumel. We have upgraded our membership twice. But let me warn you, if you are not going to take a vacation EACH AND EVERY YEAR, DON'T BUY A TIMESHARE - points based or otherwise. If you are like us and make vacations a priority in life - then consider it. Those that don't vacation yearly are disenchanted by having to pay the yearly fee.

[Giisemii]

En Calama Chile tambien nos citaron a una reunion en una hotel, ahi nos dijieron que debiamos dejar un cheque por $2.400.000 mil pesos que son $5.000 Dolares y que con eso comprabamos una membresia o unos puntos extras para ir a 5 lugares completamente gratis, en mexico. además debiamos pagar mensualmente esta cantidad por 7 años! Que son 16.800.000 pesos, por favor reporten esto a Chile para que lo den en television abierta y asi no nos engañen! por favor ! ayudaaa!!! Hepl!

[ibk1964]

Please contact me at kone203674@live.co.uk. I am a police officer from London, England who was duped into signing a contract, as a result of their misrepresentation and fraud. This was revealed as a result of our research on the Net. I am currently in contact with the Tourism authorities in the Bahamas. My intention is to compile a report to be sent to authorities and consumer rights in various countries. I will collect witness statements of deceived customers. Please get in touch.

[agalbe]

Royal Holiday is not timeshare. Royal Holiday is a Discount Travel Membership Club. Please, DO NOT mix terms.

[wicky201]

I only got screwed a little, thank God I was able to get rid of this...although I did make a few dollars on it.

[SuperBrikey]

@wicky201 hello vicky my husband and i were also victims of these royal club can you please help us on how to get out of these mess, please w are reallly scared we area new couple and have 2 young kids for whom we got to work.

[travelplus1]

I see the scam in the first 10 seconds of the video. I use Redweek.com where I can rent units. I found a nice 1 bedroom 1 bath in Arizona for $86 a  night with no additional fees. You deal directly with the owner and its rated A+ from the BBB.

[raspa1997]

Royal Holiday Vacation is a SCAM! do not buy into it!, we lost over $30,000

[thelug]

im still waiting for my rental check

[bosswall]

They tryed to get me to sign up down in mexico and man they said anything to get me to sign up and I do mean anything. I told them you got the wrong guy and it's not going to work. They were so pissed. People who do sign up thats really dumb.

[gerardomatz]

A few hundreds complaints amongst several thousand members!

And they got their money back.

Those who went to the TV show got paid to do so.

Most people who are smart enough to understand how it works get great vacations with this system.

Those who want everything for nothing get screwed.

There are million people around the world who just enjoy and keep quite.

[beenn15]

@gerardomatz There are millions who got ripped off and keep quiet.

[Izz75]

Esa liner pre-pitcha demasiado!!! y si es ftb.... pues tambien! jajajaja

[1ebric]

Well, our timeshare has worked great for us, so far we´ve used used it for the last seven years in different locations every year,

I guess there are some companies that take advantage of people, but it has worked great for us so far!! we just know how to use it, I mean I am not gonna call on december 28th to book for new years eve to go to hawaii right??

[KenElizabethFilms]

I wen't to a Hilton Timeshare presentation with my family while we were on vacation in Florida...the presentation was great they were so nice and gave us vouchers for dinners & movies..it looked too good to be true..luckily my mom had no intention in signing up...when we went to the office and said no...they got pissed and didn't even say goodbye when we left...not as friendly as they were lol

[sandybelle]

We have been scammed by WESTGATE RESORT in Orlando,FL!

we are two foreigners who were believe that we were buying a villa for a cheap price.

the following days we wanted to cancel but they would not let us then our closing agent"con artist" supposedly working for the state of Florida disappeared and we felt trapped to pay otherwise they will mess up our credit!!!

We need help to expose them as scammers!!They won't give us our money back!!!

WESTGATE =WESTSCAM!!!

[frmertd]

"they paid $30,000 for points" people are so stupid. Never ever bring the wifey to a business meeting, never.

you will end up paying 30 grand for "points" LOL

[strobe9]

fuckin' wetbacks selling bullshit

[Izz75]

@strobe9 hahahaha Fucking rednecks.... greedy little pigs going for free shit!! and then getin' fucked hahahahaha

[strobe9]

@Izz75 so you're saying that being curious about a free offer deserves to be punished by a scam? you're logic is completely distorted. anyway, god punishes the wetbacks by having them kill each other over drugs...

[Izz75]

@strobe9 No my little white trash! what I'm saying is that greedy little idiots go for free shit trying to SCAM free stuff or even money! during theire attempt they get hamered by this guys and then they complaint! don't go in the first place!

And "wetbacks" dont get killed over drugs! dummass is YOU consumers that get killed over drugs hahahaha stupid tornado bait!

[strobe9]

@Izz75 oh shut up with your emotionally charged rants. you've introduced a level of erroneous presumption that speaks for itself. adios.

[Izz75]

@strobe9 see ya basurita blanca! enjoy your moonshine!

[libatako]

scam scam scam scam scam........unless you have a personal assistant to answer your calls..be prepared to be harassed.

And a tip to vacationers..DO NOT GO TO THOSE TIME-SHARE MEETING/sales pitches....its a fucking rip-off.....they want you to feel like your shit. Theyll do everything they can to try to make you buy. They say your free to leave, but they wont let you...

ITS FUCKING DEPLORABLE

[iprotectconsumers]

Timeshares are a glorified ponzi scheme. Here is an example: Lets say a popular resort has 400 units in one building at a popular vacation destination. A year has 52 weeks and if each week is being sold for $25000 to consumers, the resort makes 52 * $25000 = $1.3 Million for one unit. For 400 units, the resort just raked in a whopping $520 Million in cash. With maintenance fees of $1000/year, the resort collects $52000 in maintenance fees/unit/year, totaling $20.8Million for 400 units.

[tigreweba]

son unas ratas de 2 patas,roban en equipo cuidado con ellos a mi ya me trataron de estafar no me dejaban escapar pero lo logre irme sin que me quitaran un peso nunca les hagan caso por favor!!!

all of them are thiefs if you are a tourist and you are in Mexico for vacation please don´t buy anything to these people this is really an SCAM!!!

[jinn13]

You can't enjoy the free gifts after the presentation. You will be too stressed, mad or tired. Don't carry those memories with you of your vacation.

[elmiau1976]

i used to be a time share sales person and i agree on must of what is being said here but also u have to be smarter than that , scams will be there not just for timeshare members but for every body as long as there are greedy ppl in both ends , and in regards of the "cutting the price in half " im sure they also cut the product in half "

[carotech1973]

This happened to me with a similar resort in Panama (Decameron Beach Resorts).  They also offered points and even threaten people on the phone if they said they would not pay anymore. I disputed the charges with the banks and luckily was able to get my money back. Ensure that you send them letters via FedEx so you can proof that you tried to contact them. Most credit card companies will help you.

[le238man]

Bottom Line! If you signed a contract in Mexico, you therefore are fucked!

[d4seasons]

@le238man TIMESHARES are a totol scam anyway. i've been getting these types of calls telling me that they can sell my timeshares for $ 3600.00. i tell them to F---- off.

[le238man]

@d4seasons The whole Timeshare concept is a scam.

[d4seasons]

@le238man thanks for replying. there are more scams that i have to deal with. MORTGAGE, CREDIT CARDS, AUTO WARRANTIES , NIGERIA , etc. what's next ? the main thing that i get angry is when victims are falling for these scams. those scammers won't stop bothering me. i spoke to those people & they just hang up. that's fine with me.

[condeuzkal]

Royal Holiday you are rats

[condeuzkal]

son unas verdaderas Ratas, no sè porque bancos como HSBC se asocian con ellos para engañar a las personas, a mi me llegò l ainvitaciòn por HSBC...Royal Holiday Ratas!!!

[shahidmexico]

Ahhhh! Pero si son una bola de sucios! Además de timar a la gente, Royal Holiday le roba a sus empleados! No les paga las comisiones que les tiene que pagar y les pone pretextos idiotas para no hacerlo. ROYAL HOLIDAY ES UNA PORQUERÍA!

[LynRuiz]

Why would American citizens purchase timeshares in Mexico? No legal protection!

[shahidmexico]

Why? Are you serious??? Because that is your favorite spot to go on holiday jackass!

Is close, is cheap and its beautiful, besides, americans love to come to mexico and enjoy the beaches. But anyway, i sue those Royal Holiday bastards since a year ago! im waiting for my money!!

[LynRuiz]

Use exchange. Americans have no legal recourse in Mexico.

[estudiantedelaBiblia]

LynRuiz. NOT true! Contact PROFECO. There are laws in place in Mexico designed to protect both citizens and tourists. These companies need to be forced to obey them though. Tourism is Mexico's CASH COW. These scams are doing a GRAVE diservice to Mexico!

[SuperBrikey]

@shahidmexico hello and sorry to say we are victims too, have u being able to resolve this situation with rhc. we are trying to get in touch with ABC news but if we get together maybe they review the case. can u pls answer we need to know what we could do to get rid off this nightmare thanks

[tripiado79]

F is not good  wow smart lair or lawyer

[alaskakiska]

back in the 80s they tried to get my mom while on a trip to hawaii , i took the free gift and pretty much said thanks s but no thanks