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| - Hi, my name is Tam and I have ADD.
ADD when it comes to music that is. I can never sit in my car and just stay on a radio station without getting a little bored or wondering what could be playing on another station that I might like better. So, this is how I got hooked up with this "time share company". I veered off of KFOG onto another station and heard Roseanne Barr's voice and got all excited about going to Vegas on a romantic vacation. Without going into tons of details (you can read Mijiza's review for more of these), I got hooked into this "deal" and gave them my credit card number for a refundable charge of $199.00 to reserve our trip. They kept touting this would be "First Class all the way",but let me tell you a different story. The hotels they offered to put us in for 3 nights were a choice of Circus Circus, The Riviera, New York New York or for a $99 upgrade (money we would not get back) The Stratosphere or The Renaissance (see my review of this one). I used Yelp to help make a hotel decision and went with the Renaissance (yay!)
We were offered along with the hotel room, $200 worth of free slot play, tickets to a comedy show and a chance to audition for a new game show that would be hosted by Alan Thicke. This could all be ours as long as we went to listen to their 2 hour spiel. So, I signed up. I convinced the man it would be fun and off we went.
We arrived in Vegas Thursday afternoon. We were thrilled with our hotel. We had an envelope waiting when we checked in from Consolidated Resorts (Tahiti Village) telling us we would be picked up at 10:30 and once we listened to the spiel we would be awarded our prizes. Friday morning we get to the lobby and are escorted to a rickety old shuttle bus and wait. We waited for 15 or so minutes before the driver took us all the way across town South of Mandalay Bay where the time share is located. We get off the shuttle, hand another guy some paperwork and were escorted into a room with at least 25 other couples and a guy playing on a ukulele. We felt like cattle waiting for the slaughter. We see sales people with cards yelling out names of people and one by one, couples started disappearing. When it was our turn, we were given a sales guy who was nervous and a bit on the slow side. He escorted us into a large banquet type of room with tons of tables and ALL of those other couples and sales people. He told us we could stand in line to get a beverage or a snack which consisted of those orange peanut butter crackers, and pre-poured water and soda in small Styrofoam cups. We sit down at one of the small tables and he attempts to make idle chit-chat. In the room we see a big wheel and balloons and then, the lights go down, a big screen TV comes down and bam, a video is being shown of demolished Vegas Hotels and then pictures of rebuilt hotels. The lights come back up and a former Vegas weatherman starts talking all about Tahiti Village, the timeshare and fabulous prizes and extra trips you can earn when you buy a timeshare. This presentation lasted about 20 minutes, and then our sales guy starts in on what the deal is. He takes us on a tour of the property (which was actually quite nice) and then back to the banquet room to talk figures. There were two options of rooms all for 17.9 percent financing. Yep, that is how this place can afford to bring people in from any walk of life. We of course knew from the get go we would not be doing this, and upon declining, another guy comes over to give us yet another deal. When we decline this, a third person comes to have us "answer some survey questions", but really offers us yet another deal. Talk about sleazy!
When we still declined, we were escorted to "get our prizes". I got my $199.00 refund receipt, 2 tickets to a comedy show (at the Riviera) and $200 worth of slot credits at a skanky hotel on the strip called Casino Royale (promotional slots only). We were then shown the door to the shuttle bus full of other couples and it took 45 minutes to get back to our hotel. We never went to the comedy show and I never want to have anything to do with a Consolidated Resorts again.
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