Capital NO Vacations!
This was my first experience with Capital Vacations and I honestly regret taking their call. The company reached out to me March 2025 offering me (1) a 3-night 4-day vacation a one of their 200 resorts from across America including Hawaii and the Caribbean for only $77, AND a 7-night 8-day FREE vacation after I completed the 90-minute session. I agreed because they were offering the second trip for free! Before the call was ended I had to pay a total of $107, which included the taxes.
On that call I was told that I must call 30-days before I plan to travel to schedule the mini-vacation. When I did call I was then informed that they do have (black-out days) which I had not been told before. But I was able to schedule it around the time I wanted to go although I didn't care for the photos of the ONLY resort they said they had left. My travel was set for 07/08/2025 - 07/11/2025 at their Country Club Villa, which you can search their website for.
My meeting was scheduled for 07/09/2025 at 2:00pm. Now, I honestly can not remember if it was Capial Vacations or the resort who told me that it took ONLY a 20-minutes drive to get to their office. It took 40-minutes from their resort! When I arrived it was approximately 2:30pm and the ladies behind the desk informed me that 2:15pm was their absolute cut off time, although I told her that I was given inaccurate information; she also refused to get a Manager to let me speak to. She rescheduled me for the next day 07/10/2025 at 10:00am, and I was certain to be their on time.
When I arrived the next morning one of the ladies said that my appointment was scheduled for 1:00pm and not 10:00am. Needless to say that I was a bit upset because I felt that I was spending the 3-days at their office! The other woman realized that it had been put in wrong, handed me the form to complete and asked me to bring it back once it was completed.
The FIRST thing that threw me qas my ex-husbands name on the document next to mine! It had no reason to be there as we have been divorced!
I was so taken back that I did not know what to mark off at the top. I put a check mark next to Single and wrote Divorced in parentheses.
Immediately after handing the document back to her a *Saleman came from the back to greet me. We went to get coffee and then suddenly a woman with long reddish hair came out and said, "You dont have to do the presentation. You're free to go!" I was flabbergasted! Nothing was making any sense! The *Salesman named "Will" said, "This is great! You dont have to pay anything or listen to the presentation! You can go and enjoy the rest of your vacation!"
Again, I was confused! I walked back to speak with the woman with the long reddish-color hair for an explanation. *Will followed me. He says, "Listen, theres nothing more that she can do. Youre good!"
I responded, "What about my seven day eight nigh free vacation that I was promised?!"
*Will says,"They have you on camera so they know that you were here!"
At this point, I didnt feel respected. I said, "*Will, I am a respected business woman. What you just said sounds crazy! Who would know I was here? Im going to call the number that I have for Capital Vacations to find out whats going on!"
*Will escorted me back to the front, but not before he said, "When you call theyre just a third-party company. Theyll have nothing to do with this."
Im like WHAT??? I calmed myself as much as I could and called the number I have saved for Capital Vacations (980-225-5857).
Before it was done and a complete waste of my time, money, and energy it took from my birthday that I was trying to celebrate!
I sat there for about 45-minute being transferred to 2-different people in personnel before I just gave up. This is what happened:
When I received the 1st call back in the Spring I didn't know who they were. My ex and I keep 1 credit card jointly for our two young adults. I gave them that card number, but I NEVER said we share housing! They called me several times, one time to ask me for another $50 for a deposit and to let me know that I would have to pay the resort $99 when I got there and that they wiuld hold another $100 or more for incidentals. I honestly would have canceled it but I had already paid them the $107 that Spring, and I was also looking forward to the 7-night 8-day FREE vacation of which I was planning to use at one of my favorite islands-St. Thomas!
I'm sitting there trying to understand what was going on because the last conversation I had to them was to tell them my roommate could not attend because a situation with her family. The woman said, "That is fine because you make enough with your income to attend by yourself." Then she added that she would make a note. In the end they canceled me, said I was a liar bc I mentioned my ex-husband! They ASSUMED WRONG! Today they attempted to charge my bank $603, but as I said, Im a very good business woman! DONT USE THEM!!!
July 9, 2025
Unprompted review