Government Vacation Rewards review: Not worth the money. Terrible Investment ( 1 comment)

By far the worst travel investment, likely the worst investment I've ever made...

First, to be clear, these offers are not exclusively for government or military.

After "subscribing" I tried to use the services and certificates 5 times in the first year and was not able to do so.

You must use their booking site to use
their gift certificates. Their site is never the cheapest option, especially with airfare. In my experience, Kayak or Expedia are always cheaper.

Claims of luxury properties are completely inaccurate. They'll sign up any property. The one area I tried use it in, they only had 2 affiliated "luxury" properties. They were both locally rated 2 stars (out of 5).

I used it to buy a fall Caribbean cruise. Their "price" was not the best price but I thought by using all my "points" it would subsidize the cost. When you add up the cost to acquire the 900 points I applied to the cruise, I paid a lot more than if I would have just bought the cruise through a regular cruise site.

Remember you are paying thousands of dollars a year, when you at up your monthly subscription costs, for this benefit. Perhaps retirees whom just Jersey around the world could be legit from this, but not regular people.

All my " Free vacation" reward certificates expired unused because there was nothing worth staying in during the limited time of the year that I had available for my vacation.

Their quarterly "super values are the only real deals they have, but they inflated the quality of the sites used for that and they are restricted, some a lot, in terms of when you must travel to utilize them.

If you go for a payment plan, they immediately start calling you to pressure you into paying off your balance... because they know their service sucks and if you find that out you might decide to stop paying on it, or cancel it before completing your payments.

While I stop short at calling it an outright scam. You will, likely, not get any actual value out of using it.

Don't do it! You will regret it.