Complaint Review: Affordable Vacations International

We were invited to a 90 minute sales pitch for a discounted travel service. We were to get a 3 day cruise which ended up being filled with red tape and hidden fees that were never mentioned during their pitch. We also paid $6043.00 to join their travel services with their promise that they would be offering 10 day trips to Tahiti, including airfare for $1800 a person, as well as the ability to book a condominium anywhere in the US for $999 a week or less. Shortly after paying for the service we tried to book the Tahiti trip and they told us that special had expired. We tried to book a condo at Tahoe and the cheapest quote they sent us was $1599 and was such a dive that I would not have paid anything to stay there.

The decent places they gave us to choose from were quoted at 3-5k per week. We tried to file a fraudulent charge case with my Chase credit card, but these guys are tricky and they word things right on the contract so that none of their verbal promises or presentation promises are written in the signed contract so my credit card company credited back my 6k at first...then 2 months later they received a copy of the paperwork from the travel service and replaced the $6k charge back to my account. This is definitely a fraudulent company and a huge rip-off of my hard-earned money. I hope there are enough complaints to merit a class-action suit to stop these guys from ripping other people off! They are criminals that are stealing from decent, hard-working people and it's just not right!