Club La Costa Disgusting Customer Service and Misleading 'Prize Luxury Holidays'.

nicechap

antenna wrote: »

£3200 for the holiday...........it seems you are forgetting the cost of flights,transfers and insurance,so lets add another £300 per person............

Thanks antenna, I had to pay for flights and hire car as well, but my accommodation was £590 (booked via work intranet site), booked in June, so to compare like with like, reckon £590 for a 3 bed 4/5* is better value than a 1 bed 5* for £3200, plus if I don't want to go on holiday next year, I don't have to pay £910.

Apples2

Looks like He has woken up.

Our war of words are interspersed amongst the reports from CLC Members suffering the squits at one of the 5* Resorts.

http://www.turkishliving.com/forums/apollonium-bozbuk/39686-anyone-stayed-club-la-costa-recently.html


The hotel they are all talking about is this one....sounds great.

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g298019-d1531917-r74347813-Apollonium_Club_La_Costa_Spa_Beach_Resort-Mugla_Province_Turkish_Aegean_Coast.html#CHECK_RATES_CONT



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marleyboy

I particularly loved the feeble excuse about some allergic reaction to the trees. It was almost as good as toprobroy's pathetic excuse of "I was banned from the site for asking the Admin to get involved."..............Well they DID get involved, didn't they.

maksipup

nicechap wrote: »

Thanks antenna, I had to pay for flights and hire car as well, but my accommodation was £590 (booked via work intranet site), booked in June, so to compare like with like, reckon £590 for a 3 bed 4/5* is better value than a 1 bed 5* for £3200, plus if I don't want to go on holiday next year, I don't have to pay £910.

See posts 103 and 105. Maksipup advised not to buy into CLC if you want to take holidays in peak summer months or school holidays!
Q.E.D.

marleyboy

MSE,TCA,HTW,GTS,Watchdog and 95%+ of mass media, the internet or the general public, strongly advise not to buy into CLC AT ALL, be it Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, peak or non peak.

maksipup

marleyboy wrote: »

MSE,TCA,HTW,GTS,Watchdog and 95%+ of mass media, the internet or the general public, strongly advise not to buy into CLC AT ALL, be it Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, peak or non peak.

Well, as I said, I can only talk from experience and I believe I have shown it has worked for me!:)

maksipup

Looks like the apples have fallen from the tree!

http://www.turkishliving.com/forums/apollonium-bozbuk/39686-anyone-stayed-club-la-costa-recently.html

OOPS! later - thread was closed due to bickering posts but later reopened

Apples2

maksipup wrote: »

Looks like the apples have fallen from the tree!

http://www.turkishliving.com/forums/apollonium-bozbuk/39686-anyone-stayed-club-la-costa-recently-2.html

As long as the Tree has been shaken

I thought I was going to see my posts removed, in fact, I was hoping they would take Lilly's request seriously and ban the both of us. :rotfl::rotfl:

terryw

maksipup wrote: »

No, your £3200 would have bought you holidays for the first year with £910 per annum thereafter (plus membership fee) and with 1500 points at your disposal each year. As said before no-one can say you could have two definite weeks in Portimao in August, CLC do not have resorts in Portimao. At the moment looking at the offers that are on just now and if I wanted to go to Portugal in October, I could have two weeks in a two bed apartment for 220 points per week.
As I also said, I would not advise anyone who wants to holiday during peak summer months to join CLC as it is best financially for those able to be flexible with their dates. Worked properly the 1500 points could bring mutiple holidays. If taken when offers are on looking at the example given at 220 points per week = 6-7 weeks. Booked last minute would produce the same result but probably not during school holidays.
The 4001 point and above membership gives better value of course with the reduction in maintenance per point to 0.50 euros.

It is quite interesting to see that you manage to make your membership pay. It is just a pity that it is not possible to see the "points catalogue" on the web unless you are a member. This makes any comparison very difficult for the outsider.

Other organisations which offer "points" are quite transparent with what is available for set number of points - airmiles and tesco rewards spring to mind. It is a pity that CLC will not let members know this until people join up.


You appear to book "off-season" or "last-minute" to get these deals.
In fairness though, such deals (including accommodation at CLC resorts) are available to anyone via the web at excellent real prices "off-season". I really can't understand why anyone would pay a large sum upfront and then high membership for the rest of their merely to book "off-season" holidays.

The thought also strikes me that if someone was really keen to become involved in timeshare then it would make sense to buy a one with a low annual charge and then just swop via RCI to a CLC resort without having to pay their very high (and increasing) charges.

maksipup

terryw wrote: »

The thought also strikes me that if someone was really keen to become involved in timeshare then it would make sense to buy a one with a low annual charge and then just swop via RCI to a CLC resort without having to pay their very high (and increasing) charges.

You are quite right, CLC weeks are far to dear on maintenance to be anything like sensible which is why we swapped to points. Our initial timeshare purchases all had low maintenance charges but you can imagine the changes since 1991. We actually make the best of both worlds as you suggest and run three weeks with other resorts, who have more reasonable maintenance costs, beside our points.