E: 31/10 ? Win a £5000 Holiday

Please, Please, Please do not be fooled by these con men.

We were. Fortunately we only paid for a Trial Membership (which we got for less than £3000.)

The holiday for 4 at £29.50 each - CON - when you try to book it for 4, after already having paid the 4 x £29.50 - you end up with a further bill for about £600 for so called taxes etc. Enough said, we didn't take it.

Yes, your introductory week at California Suites in the Costa del Sol will lull you into a false sense of security. It's beautiful. 5 star all the way. This is what they claim to be selling - a 5 star holiday experience for life for about £20 grand! CON - we went to Tenerife with them to Paradise Club, most definately a 3 star experience. We booked for Bali, but the brochure accommadation was not available. We had to pay an additional £100 to book via their Worldwide facitily. Have just returned from beautiful Bali - but the apartment was definately 2 star.

We booked to go to the Monterey in Tenerife next February for one week because we were told it is 5 star. After we booked a one bed apartment our son decided he would like to come with a friend. I rang to upgrade to a 2 bed apartment. I was told sorry there were non available, but they could let me have an additional apartment for my son. I booked it. I have just found out that because we took a second apartment we have lost our final week ( I understand the logic, but wasn't told at the time - I still thought I had a week left.)

I am yet to find out if Monterey is as 5 star as Calafornia Suites.

Please dont be conned by these people. They do have SOME 5 star places, but claim in the extremely hard sell (which you have to go through every time you book a week though them) that in buying into Club la Costa you are buying into a 5 star holiday dream for life.

This is completely untrue - out of my 6 total weeks, so far 3 have been well below what my husband and I would usually travel to.

Also, while there is no maintenance involved in the Trial Membership, we were told by a couple who are on the Points system on our very first visit that they had bought in 9 years ago and were paying about £300 in maintenance per year and were told it would never go up very much. They are now paying just short of £1,000 per year in mainteneance.

Save yourself money and grief. Book a great 5 star holilday through a travel agent and get what you really pay for.

We are.