Papa and I received a notice in the mail a few weeks ago from a time share (sort of) you know one of those deals where if you go listen to the speil for an hour or so and you get free room and meals. Well we called and it sounded like a great way to get away for a couple days plus neither Papa or I had been to Destin before so we decided to take advantage of it. So off we go on Wed no problems on the way down other than getting a bit confused ...I know can you believe it ? me and Papa confused and going about 20 miles the wrong way before we realized it and turned around . We finally made it to our "destin"ation, we went to the resort and got our package and made our way to the hotel. The first day was ours to do with as we pleased, we pleased to get some food and go to sleep !! Getting lost takes a lot out of you. Day 2. Most of it belonged to us, we had until 3:00 pm to play, the first thing we did was get Nathans left handed golf clubs, how nice there was an Edwin Watts golf store right there...of course there were no scrap book stores. We then explored the outlet mall (ok almost as good as a scrapbook store) across from our hotel, it was great, had a zillion stores, some very high end ones too Saks 5th Ave, Michael Kors, Coach just to drop a name or 2, even at outlet prices I couldn't afford anything nor wanted to pay even those so called lower prices. It was fun looking at it all though. Now imagine this, the only things we bought were for the grand kids. Ok I take that back we did find this amazing chocolate store that we spent WAY too much money in but oohh la la was it YUMMY and worth every red cent we left in it. Ok time to go listen to the speil and tell them we aren't interested we just wanted free room and a coupon for supper....that sounds horrible doesn't it ? Anyway we listen to Pete, and lo and behold it is a DEAL but still way out of our means at this time, as we so much more enjoy living in our home and eating which if we chose to do the deal offered we would not be able to, so we say thanks but no thanks, they didn't like that, they counter offered, we politely again say thanks but no thanks, again they don't like it and the gloves come out, this time the deal sounds even better but we talk and again decide no we won't do it. Time for the big guns, out comes Nick the VP, he makes yet another offer that sounds great but again we must decline. Needless to say Pete and Nick were not happy, especially Pete who is on commission only and has kids in college and so on and so on, of course we had become best friends before the first deal was laid out , do you think they do that so you feel guilty for NOT buying ? Anyway we had a great couple days in Destin, some good food and even better quality time with each other . Enjoy the pics, more to come later.
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I've always wondered how those offers turn out. Did you have to listed to the speil for a certain amount of time?
Yep. You must sit through the whole thing before they give you your hotel payment and gift... in our case, it was a $50 coupon to one of several places for dinner. The advertised 90 minutes, but by the time Pete was finished and we said no, then Nick was called over (no pressure sales...uh huh) to "explain" how we were making a mistake and give us bottom dollar prices, we were there for at least 2 hours. I must say, if we can afford it some day, we will look into it again.
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