Greetings and salutations everyone! Boy was tonight a funny night. Emily and I received a rather authentic looking certificate/prize in the mail from Ramada® Plaza Resorts (Orlando/Ft. Lauderdale Vacations) stating that we had "won" a $1,600 off a Carnival Cruise from Florida to the Bahamas. Having peaked my curiosity I called the 800 number to see what was up. I got Jack Dillard, Senior Yada Yada President for Ramada at 7:00 P.M Eastern Time. (The guy works late).

Jack was offering us a "Big Gay" honeymoon package for an 8 day get-a-way to the Bahamas for $399 per person. He noted that if this was too much he could lower the price to accommodate us. I kept trying to get him to tell us how much it would cost us but he didn't tell me the $399 thing until 30 minutes into the phone call. Unfortunately for him, Emily and I were researching the whole deal and found out that it was just a big let down. People stated that the service sucked and they ended up paying $2,600 even after the $1,600 taken off in the end. Visit that previous link to see the complaints about it. (I simply don't have enough time tonight to type every single one of them out).

So what happened? I inquired if we were going to get lectured on our vacation about time shares and he replied changing "time shares" into a short morning having to visit some place and waste our time. I was suspecting that there would be alot more time share crap than that. After 30 minutes of waiting he told us the price and wanted our credit card number. Oh I also forgot to mention that he told us we HAVE to buy our tickets tonight and that we can't decide later. Let me repeat, we had to pay tonight. This is the part that worried me the most because it was a pressured decision. Pressured decisions are usually how you get scammed. At that point I hung up our cell phone.

He immediately called back and told us that we were "mean for hanging up on him and that this deal was so great....He then told us that "if we don't have enough money in our poor little account, he can lower the price more." What a dick! Poor little account my ass! Truth is we could have afforded the stupid trip, it was that we didn't trust him!

I figured by posting this online, I can maybe save a few more people 30 minutes of their time on the phone with an aggressive sales person.
Right? I propose that anyone who visits my site call this number 1-954-455-3211 and ask for Jack Dillard. Then prank him and hang up.

In better travel news I'm going to Downtown Chicago January 10th and 11th! Why you ask? Because I am being sent for a Web Trends class for work. While Web Trends isn't my favorite activity, traveling somewhere to get better at it is. There is also a possibility that Emily would be able to come along as well and we could check out the city for a day or two after it all. Yay!
Fin.