Groupon Malta Deal - timeshare!

Irishorangutan

Hi folks,

A bit of advice needed.

On Saturday I was one of the 223 people who purchased the Groupon deal to the Radisson Blu resort & spa in Malta.

It's a fantastic looking place, although according to reviews, a bit remote. I went for the 5 night option.

In the small print it says that guests have to attend an informal meeting about island residence clubs products & services. I saw this, and have no problem with it.

However, I have now read various reports and reviews and essentially this is a timeshare promo holiday. Now I wouldn't buy a timeshare and some people seem to say "avoid like the plague" whereas others have said that it's fine and at this resort they don't really bother you.

I am however, a bit annoyed that it did not clearly state on Groupon that this was a 'timeshare promo offer'.

I am now not sure what to do.

Do I:

a) cancel and get a refund of my £149 for my 5 night stay (I can do this within 7 days)

or

b) Go for it.

Has anyone any experience of this and/or this resort?

thamespirate

Hi i did a malta radisson free holiday a couple of years back , i would go for it just dont buy the timeshare , you will have to go on a presentation which you get a tour of the resort which is very nice , but at the end just say no NO , they do leave you alone after that , then on the last day they ask you to sign a form saying you where not pressured at all, here they try to make another offer , just say thanks but no, be polite enjoy the holiday we did , and we did not buy the timeshare.

AMILLIONDOLLARS

I'd cancel, they will try to get you to buy, you've said yourself that its a remote location, how on earth will you be able to escape the constant sales pitch??

AMD

thamespirate

Also need to add we stayed at golden sands resort , they must of sold all the shares now on a new resort. they work on the assumtion a batch of people every week through the door if they sell half its a result ,

Irishorangutan

AMILLIONDOLLARS wrote: »

I'd cancel, they will try to get you to buy, you've said yourself that its a remote location, how on earth will you be able to escape the constant sales pitch??

AMD

The remote location does worry me too. I'm really torn on this one now!!

Irishorangutan

I've cancelled. It does sound fantastic and I'm sure it's not a huge deal, dealing with the sales pitch. However, Groupon didn't state that this was a time-share promo deal and I could have picked one of those up elsewhere for about the same price or less.

Thanks to both of you for your advice.