Aqui va mi historia
El 12 de abril del 2010, cuando nos encontrábamos hospedados en el Hotel Gran Oasis Playa, ubicado en 60 Ave Kukulcan, 77500 Cancún, Qintana Roo, México. Zona Hotelera, Cancún, fuimos invitados (mi comprometida y yo) a un desayuno para que se nos hablara de los beneficios de ser miembros del Royal Holiday Club. Posteriormente pasamos a la oficina de ventas donde nos recibio la Señora Marilu Vargas y la Señora Ruth Vázquez (Finance Manager). Luego de una larga negociación accedimos a ser miembros del club y aceptamos la membresía de Royal Holiday. Posterior a la firma del contrato recibimos los regalos de bienvenida (cenas libre de costo, cruceros románticos por la laguna, unas vacaciones libre de costo en Cancún) y un brindis.

48 horas mas tarde luego de una detallada lectura del contrato, asesoramiento por parte de mi abogado y una meticulosa búsqueda en la Internet acerca de Royal Holiday decidimos regresar a la oficina de ventas del hotel y cancelar personalmente la membresía acorde con lo estipulado en el contrato pagina (3/4) cláusula numero 11. donde menciona claramente que el mismo puede ser cancelado dentro de los 5 (cinco) días hábiles a la firma según las leyes Mexicanas presentando una solicitud y regresando la documentación a la sala de ventas correspondientes.

La cancelación fue solicitada en persona el 14 de abril del 2010 (48 horas después de la firma), la Señora Ruth Vázquez me recibió en la oficina y me solicito dejase por escrito las razones por la cual cancelaba dicho contrato. La nota de cancelación se realizo correctamente y fue entregada de manera personal a la Señora Ruth Vázquez.

Luego exigí un acuse de recibo pero la misma prometió dejarme una "nota oficial" de cancelación por parte de Royal Holiday en mi habitación. Insistí en que necesitaba el comprobante de cancelación así como un comprobante de mi reembolso de tarjeta de crédito en ese momento pero la Señora Vargas insistió en que no me preocupe, que mi dinero seria reembolsado en 14 días, que la cancelación ya fue efectuada y nuevamente insistió en que me haría llegar una "nota oficial" a mi habitación.

Todos los regalos fueron devueltos en la oficina de ventas al momento de la cancelación, 24 horas mas tarde me comunique nuevamente con la oficina exigiendo mi nota de cancelación la cual aun necesitaba "una firma" y que me la harían llegar mas tarde. Al siguiente día contacte con la Sra. Vargas nuevamente por teléfono pero me informaron que ella no se encontraba en la oficina. Desafortunadamente yo tenia que regresar a los Estados Unidos ese día, explique la urgencia de mi situación vía telefónica pero nuevamente los miembros de la oficina de Ventas de Royal Holiday insistieron que no me preocupe que todo fue cancelado y que seria reembolsado el monto en 14 días.

De regreso a los Estados Unidos he intentado un sinnúmero de veces contactar con Royal Holiday sin que me den una respuesta favorable. La Señora Ruth Vázquez así como la Sra. Marilu Vargas no han respondido a ninguna de mis llamadas, e-mails o faxes. Mi banco también a contactado con Royal Holiday sin ninguna respuesta favorable.

Desde entonces mi compañía de banco Chase Bank así como la compañía VISA estan batallado con Royal Holiday. Mi proceso aun esta en disputa.

Hago la dunucia en publico para evitar que Royal Holiday desprestigie a los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, país tan hermoso por su geografía además de sus importantes zonas arqueológicas, como Royal Holiday lo esta haciendo, ya que en la Internet (Yahoo groups and facebook) hay un grupo de más de 500 personas que han sido estafas por Royal Holiday y están tratando de recuperar su dinero, pero lamentablemente recomiendan que es preferible hacer turismo en otros países ya que relacionan a México con estas fraudulentas compañías.

If you wish to ban together to get media attention to this issue, email me. Only in numbers will we have any hope to bring this company to its knees. Cable news have already run a story and I believe they would be extremely interested in doing a follow up. Also, for a $5 yearly charge you can post a complaint on TheSqueakyWheel.com and each time your complaint is viewed, RH receives an email. They can be bombarded with emails, my complaint has been viewed over 4, 000 times! Come on people, lets get together and stop waiting for someone else to do something...EMAIL ME and lets do something! Shelly M

We made the purchase of a vacation club membership with Royal Holiday on May 31, 2010 while on vacation in Cancun. We had agreed with the sales director, Ernesto Barberi to exchange 1 of our paid in full timeshare properties in addition to a cash deposit for a paid in full membership package. Later that evening while reading through the membership packet, we realized numerous discrepancies and outright lies between what was presented and what was contained within the language of the packet. We therefore decided that night to exercise our legal right to cancel the membership and receive a full refund. We exercised that right the very next day, June 1, 2010 and met with Mr. Barberi, who claimed that he was unable to process the cancellation at the sales office and gave us instructions of what he needed to do to obtain cancellation and refund authorization. Needles to say, Mr. Barberi has failed to respond to any phone calls, emails or letter since that date.

We have sent registered letters to all adresses in the contract, email notifications, faxes and phone calls on a daily basis and all within the legal time frame allowed, all without results. All our attempts to obtain a cancellation and refund within the allowed 5 business days been roadblocked by the company. Each and every person we contact via email or phone claims that they are either unaware of the process to provide a cancellation/refund or they are not authorized to do so. Also, they are unwilling to provide a name or contact number of any person who knows how to process a cancellation / refund or is authorized to do so.. Ironically, although not authorized to process a cancellation, each representative is authorized to offer upgrades and downgrades galore.

After conducting an internet search, I was amazed to find literally hundreds, if not thousands, of complaints of deceptive sales practices on behalf of the Royal Holiday representatives. I also found an extremely shocking number of cases of victims attempting to cancel within the legal timeframe as is their right by Article 56 of the Federal Consumer Protection Act all to no avail as the company refuses to abide by the law.

Know You Rights
Article 56 of the Federal Consumer Protection Law
The contract will be perfected within five working days from the delivery of, or the company/signature of the contract, which ever occurs the latest. During this period, the consumer will have the right to revoke his consent without any responsibility. The revocation will have to be by means of warning or delivery of notice, in person, by registered mail, or another method of average reliability. The revocation according to this Article, will terminate the contract. In this case, the costs of shipping and insurance will be the responsibility of the consumer. If the contract is for services, this article will not be applicable if the date of receipt of the service is less than ten working days from the date of the order of purchase.

ARTICLE 32 OF the Federal Consumer Protection Law
The information or publicity relative to goods or services that spread by any means or forms, will have to be truthful, verifiable and clear of texts, dialogues, sounds, images and other descriptions that induce or can induce error or confusion, by its inaccuracy.

Immediate Cancellation Procedure
To protect your right to cancel within 5 days of signing your contract you must immediately send notification of your intent to cancel and exercise your rights under ARTICLE 56 OF Ley Federal de Protección al Consumidor.

You need to send your cancellation by a means that you can easily prove that you complied with Article 56. It is best to send a certified letter to all Mexican Addresses contained within the agreement and to follow up via email and fax. You should also copy yourself, and PROFECO (the Mexican Federal Consumer Protection Agency at: [email protected] ) on your email. If your email system allows, you should request delivery confirmation and a return receipt. Do this even if you make the cancellation in person.

Also, it is best to forward copies of all correspondence to the Mexican Embassy in your home town or better yet, show up with documentation in hand. They will assist you with a PROFECO claim.
As an added measure of insurance, forward all correspondence to the Mexican Embassy in Washington, DC, the US Consulate in Mexico, and the Mexican Board of Tourism.

Contact Your Credit card company immediately to stop payment and issue an dispute. Provide copies of all written, emailed, faxed correspondence in addition to a copye Article 56
If you feel you were defrauded at a timeshare or vacation package sale in Mexico, you can fight back for a full refund…check out http://www.mescam.com/index.htm

Check out the following for more assistance:
http://www.thesqueakywheel.com/
http://www.ripoffreport.com/
http://www.complaintsboard.com/?search=royal+holiday
http://royalholidayclubmexicoscammedme.blogspot.com/
http://www.timeshareconsumergroup.org/fraud_royal.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1W2HVGnNls 20/20 Royal Holiday Timeshare Investigation
http://complaintwire.org/Complaint.aspx/WgFSMGOF9gA7WwjJdplNoA
http://www.thetimeshareauthority.com/2008/04/29/royal-holiday-timeshare-making-the-news-for-all-the-wrong-reasons-part-i/

H E L P S O S !

We feel we have been the victim of a fraud, we have contacted everyone at this company ask for our money back.

No one has been able to help us, it seems they forget everything, we got the names of the sales people and with all the guys we spoke, each item we've discussed.

My husband and I purchased a timeshare with Royal Holiday on 2/28/07. We were pressured into buying and realized after we left what a terrible decision we had made. I searched through all of the paperwork given to us looking for any type of info on a cancellation period with no luck but we kept trying to cancel!

We are so very angry, feel like we have been knowingly deceived.
We did not pay the down payment in full and all paperwork says that the down payment was received...
Is this contract legit if the down payment was not complete??????????

Can We get a refund? We want to make them pay for what they've done to us!!!

We are rying to compile all the information and expose them to all the medias!

Sarah & Martin Jacobs

[email protected]

in August of 2008 we sign this contract with Royal holidayin Cancun Mexico.They promess we could book in any 5 star hotel w/ a suite right by the water, air fair allways half price, hotels all inclusive, but none of that is true, every thing works with points, I want a five star Hotel I need to open a certificate for 30.000 points or even more each certificate can cust 0ver $ 400 each one +you have to pay for each day you stay at the hotel, price is not the same depending the month, air fair, I don't get any discount . They never explain that. I been shopping unlined and I can get a better deal. It's abig scame I want to get my money back . I never booked any thing . I know I'm not the only one who complain about Royal Holiday, some body has to go after theme, they still money from people. isn't that against the law.