We’d like to remind Forumites to please avoid political debate on the Forum.

This is to keep it a safe and useful space for MoneySaving discussions. Threads that are – or become – political in nature may be removed in line with the Forum’s rules. Thank you for your understanding.

📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!
The Forum now has a brand new text editor, adding a bunch of handy features to use when creating posts. Read more in our how-to guide
We're aware that some users are currently experiencing errors on the Forum. Our tech team is working to resolve the issue. Thanks for your patience.

Holiday clubs/not timeshare/is it a ripoff/scam

Has anyone had any experience of these companies who work in benedorm/tenerife/costas etc areas, and use the scratchcards to lure you in.,, not sell timeshare but a wholeload of benefits/holidays cheap everything etc for about 5-6000, Id love to hear your experiences.
cheers
weedougie
Live your dreams, navigate the clouds.

Comments

  • aerostar
    aerostar Posts: 1,738 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    All dodgy

    There was some time ago on the TV a program about these - needless to say all the scratch cards will be winners !.

    Leave well alone.
  • budgetflyer
    budgetflyer Posts: 5,949 Forumite
    On a miserable day in Tenerife we "WON" :-) on one of these scratchcards.Aparently we were going to see "tenerife.com" promotion. All the bars and hotels advertise on this so called website and they were just tryinging to raise public awareness. We were "warned" that we could only stay 2 hours as it wouldn't be fair on all the other kids waiting to get on the playstations, bouncy castle. etc. Free taxi there and back. Guess what- A holiday ownership presentation. Quite interesting but not for us as our holiday only cost us £100 each and they wanted 5 grand and you would still have flights on top.
    Still ,they gave us 4 bottles of spirits for visiting, our taxi home no hassle and to be honest, it wasn't really high pressure sales.
    My attitude, if the weathers crap and the freebies are good,do it ,take the hospitality but DONT BUY ever
This discussion has been closed.
Meet your Ambassadors

🚀 Getting Started

Hi new member!

Our Getting Started Guide will help you get the most out of the Forum

Categories

  • All Categories
  • 354.5K Banking & Borrowing
  • 254.4K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
  • 455.4K Spending & Discounts
  • 247.4K Work, Benefits & Business
  • 604.2K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
  • 178.5K Life & Family
  • 261.7K Travel & Transport
  • 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
  • 16K Discuss & Feedback
  • 37.7K Read-Only Boards

Is this how you want to be seen?

We see you are using a default avatar. It takes only a few seconds to pick a picture.