Global Discovery Vacations
Reviews and Complaints

I have tried the last two years to book a vacation for 13 people 11 adults if you include teenagers as adults and 2 children ages 3 and 6 to no avail. I have tried booking 2 condos to split my party again to no avail. It is ridiculous that we try a year ahead of time and nothing is available for a family our size. Our family enjoys the beach but we tried this year for Hot Springs Arkansas since beach not available as we could not book because the room capacity is 6 per room even with small children

My fiance and I fell for their presentation in Hawaii. Signed up. Paid a portion all for later to find out, everything they showed and promised would be available, was not! All options are cheap and run down worse than motel 6 when they promised all these resorts choices. I have never booked a place using this and now they want to send to collections and say I owe them $4k in order to get out of contract when I never even used it because it was all a scam

I fell for the presentation that showed properties that I don't ever see available. Every time I try to look for some way to use this "club" I'm terribly disappointed with the options and the quality of the condos.

The pictures are of run down, old, low-end condos. This was not what I signed up for after the presentation.

Shame on me for falling for their tactics. After the identifying the quality of the condos, I read the fine print that cancellation was within the first week following the sale.

I hope to find other avenues for warning potential buyers so that they do not fall for the same line of bull!

Purchased with Global received welcome email 7/26/23 set up account it was not at all what was promised. I told them then where i like to travel a few different places oh you won't have a problem booking.And this is til next year. nothing was available where I want to go when I want to go. I was able to book 2br condo on booking.com for August vacation. Which global had nothing but I paid into a membership that you'd think would have a listing. Spoke with Zachary Yoakum Director of quality assurance, he tried to get me to spend more for V.i.p. I let him no I checked all the way til July next year and the places i looked for not available, I rather just cancel. What do I need to do already mailed form in.He claimed to be assisting me with canceling spoke to him twice on the july 27, last call he said let me work on it and ill give you a call back. Never got that call he won't answer from my number, called from a friend's phone he answered once he realized who I was he hung up this happened 3 times. Spoke to a manager at Global informed her what was going on and asked if I can speak to someone else, again with the upsell. She then sent the Director a message to call me which didn't happen.

We were excited about getting to travel at discounted rates. When in fact the membership and "fees" associated its been cheaper for us to book rooms at hotels.com. Every time I look for a room on GDV it says member saving in small (under 5$) amounts. Really!? Also we never seem to have time for a WEEK vacation and the places we travel sorry, no rooms available. In this new economy that's been created we cant afford to go anywhere now. I called them and asked to get out and they replied negatively. I don't care about what I've already paid just dont want to continue paying stupid money with NO BENIFIT!

We been with global for a while now and every time we request something there’s nothing available and every time we go into to talk to a global sales office they tell us we need to upgrade to VIP and we’ll we been VIP several years now and we still don’t see anything different on the app and request we make and we even got told we would have a VIP person if we called center in that’s never happened either we where in the global sales office yesterday and we told them about it they still said we should upgrade we aren’t going to upgrade anymore

And then we got insurance on a trip and one of us ended up in the hospital we filed a claim and we got the doctor to fill it out and we sent it and faxed and emailed it to them and we still haven’t gotten anything from them

On January 30, 2023 My wife and I along with Friends went to a presentation put on by Chris McCurry in Columbus Ohio. We Purchased two Additional Stars and were promised a Free week vacation for attending the presentation. None of have received any word back from Chris and His voice mail doesn't seem to be working. I am very disappointed with your company and glad our friends chose not to join.

Richard Biggs

March 2022 was in Hawaii and they got me. I have been paying on a 10k note for 15 Mos now and have nothing to show for it. I was told there are so many vacation homes that it would be so easy to get a vacation last minute to anywhere. But I can't get anything I want for the time I want! I just want out and don't know how to go about it! I'm just going to stop paying on it. I don't know what else to do. This is such a rip off.

April 2023

thank god i didnt buy into this. My gf has a membership we didnt realize she had from a prior marrige. They had used it once, locally. We decided to use her membership to go outside the us. No way only offer vancouver and the carribean. Oh and ireland as we wanted to go to europe as was expressed to us in the seminr. They said anywhere in the world. My god what a sham. Dont do it folks.

Beware! This is your warning, do not get sucked into buying into this company! We have been pretty lucky getting a unit in a specific area that we wanted, unfortunately the units are crap! We’ve had filthy units, leaking bathroom ceilings with mold/mildew smell & came home with that stench in everything we owned! We had kitchen chairs where there was no padding/cushion and the springs were sticking out of them, torn furniture, torn bath towels, not enough bath towels, no batteries in tv remote, paint missing from walls, filthy carpet, smelly pillows, oh yeah & a roll of toilet paper that had gotten wet (dropped in toilet?) and still left for us to use on the toilet roll. I don’t think I really need to go on. We were moved out of the leaking bathroom unit, but that’s it. When I complained about the kitchen chairs, I was told there was nothing they could do “they didn’t have any extra furniture.” I have complained to our salesman, he sent me a BS response, said he would call me….that was 3 weeks ago. It’s a joke. Nobody cares, nobody will do anything to help you. If you buy into GDV after reading this post, don’t come crying to me. It will only allow me to post 1 pic.

I must say this was the worst experience we have ever had and we paid for a vacation we did not get. We complied with all the rules and showed up with a VALID Credit Card with a low balance but nonetheless VALID which was the only criteria is that it was valid. We were treated poorly, to say the least, and kicked out literally on the street on December 21, 2022 with nowhere to go at 7:00 pm at night. We followed all the rules and complied and were told upon arrival that we needed to have $250 placed on hold on our credit card which was not available on the card however we had plenty of money in our bank account and they said that didn't matter. We paid over $1,700 for our flights and ended up having to find a place to stay that evening. We had to walk on the streets with 3 large bags of luggage, not feeling safe or even knowing where we would end up. The resort would not work with us and treated us terribly! This requirement was not anywhere in writing that we had to have $250 on a credit card just that we needed a valid credit card which ours was.

For the first 5 year of our Global membership, we were able to get the vacation locations we were promised when we purchased our membership (Hawaii, San Diego, Mexico etc.). Then they disappeared and we were told we would need to upgrade, spending $2,400 extra to upgrade to the top level membership to see the same properties we had before as well as numerous additional properties. We paid the $2,400 and could now book most of the properties we went to under the original plan. Now, actually for the last couple of years, these same properties have all disappeared again. Today I found out whey. Global now wants additional $ Thousands more to see them again. When we bought and when we upgraded, the salesperson said this would allow us to go to Hawaii every year, to the best resorts in Mexico, etc. This upgrade would get us the best vacations for the "rest of our lives".

But now, we see no Hawaii properties, and none of the good San Diego or Mexico properties. This is Bait and switch, or just plain fraud. They are unethical criminals. Don't waste your money. Use VRBO or Airbnb instead.

I purchased my membership years ago and was promised unlimited Expressways and 4 Star Credits per year. Now there is a new membership that actually has properties available and I am out of luck unless I want to go to Phoenix in the middle of the summer every year. There are occasionally other places available, but never I have wanted to go to since I joined the first year. I have not seen the cabin we initially visited in Gatlinburg, TN since we first joined. This was a total waste of thousands of dollars for me and I have not really felt the need to renew since I initially bought my membership. They have offered me the "new membership" but I should have the same access as the people who bought in later.

The last two years I have not got a place as fast as I use to or what I wanted I think you are more worried about the new members and when

I get a place it’s not more then a 2 or 3 star I had to put something over the furniture the smell was bad I think the last pace I was at was moldy The places I stayed at the last couple of years was in a good area that was the only good thing I have put in for 3 weeks next year but still have not got anything, that also has changed

When we went to the conference everything Dan told us was a lie. We were told we would get a welcome call, never received it. We where told they would help us navigate the site. Never did. He promised they would sent us paperwork, never received. WE tried calling and email, with no success. We did tell them we were going to stop the payment to the company. Still trying to resolve it. They promised us a 7 day vacation package for attending. never received it. Why is it they only give us three days to cancel but they never get back within the three days.

All I can say is I'm both sorry and elated to find individuals like myself that were scammed for travel services by Global Discovery Vacations. This company is a total consumer ripoff. How dare anyone of this company, at whatever satellite office they have moved into this month, even try to defend what this company is selling. All of your stories on-line sound so familiar to what has happened to my husband and I. This company couldn't be more of a joke.

They start by calling you on the phone stating you have a free trip (usually 2 nights, 3days) with a choice of 5 or 6 places to go for attending a 90 min presentation for travel services. After you agree to the 90 min presentation you drive to whatever office they have set up for that time period. I have noticed that all of them have short life spans. After you hear what great discounts they have (and I'm the first to admit how embarrassed I am for buying in) they negotiate a lifetime able to be passed on for generations "vacation club." The membership fees all started out in the $15K range in my presentation. I NEVER GOT THE FREE TRIP let alone ANY use of this. They don't even know the person who signed my name (as I didn't, it was a digital copy) as their company (GDV) is run so bad.

Here's the scam. They have a couple of people working out of a real office somewhere. Then for as long as it takes to sign up all the suckers like me they have several "temp" sales offices. These are where they give sales presentations. Once the consumer buys in they have 3 days to break the contract. The travel services department (if you want to call it that) is only open Mon-Fri. The presentations are given on a Friday or Saturday by the time you call on Monday and by the time you get a response you can no longer void the contract. Once your stuck they rely on your frustration to take over. Most people only get two-three weeks of vacation a year with a couple of long weekends. This equates to only being able to go on 4-5 trips or so a year, if your lucky.

You can't see where you "might" be able to travel, you have to submit more money to this joke of a company for the chance at a vacation resort. GDV needs an attorney with some time to put them out of business once and for all. I was lied to about all inclusive vacations being a part of my membership, which is not so (regardless of the 4 stars I won't use this year). I can get "discounted" trips thru an affiliated travel agent, which it didn't take me long to figure out that the discounts they give aren't really discounts at all. It's just a few people looking up what you can do yourself in about 5 minutes on the web (minus the comission rate for providing this "exceptional" service to you, you will find the web prices about 20% cheaper). This goes against everything they told me in the presentation of buying airline tickets in bulk and buying blocks of rooms each year for members. YADA YADA

These employees have to know what GDV is doing. Anytime I have called trying to get information about the company I am either forwarded to voice mail or given to 'Tamara' if that's her real name the supervisor on duty and the highest power of lack of caring the company can offer. Or to MIRANDA CALKINS

I would be more than happy to be a part of a class action lawsuit against GDV (GLOBAL DISCOVERY VACATIONS) if anybody is interested. I will be keeping a close eye out on new reports. This is not an isolated incident. There are many other travel companies scamming people out of their hard earned cash.