We are just finishing up our trip to PP and it was overall a great family trip for us.
Room -
We were quite disappointed with our MP room. They gave us a room on the first floor right off the main lobby with no view. The hallway didn't have A/C, was hot and stuffy all week, and the noise echoed through the hallway and into our room as people walked by talking. The bed was hard as a rock. I know the MP is the lower end brand, but I guess I expected more from the room. Our room had maintenance issues galore - the A/C didn't work in the bedroom until halfway through the week and then we froze as the thermostat didn't work. The living room A/C still worked so we had that cranked up. The drywall plaster in the bathroom fell down halfway through as well due to it being wet from a clogged A/C drain pipe. There were bugs - mosquitoes, spiders, and roaches in the hallways and in our room. And just general other upkeep issues we found. We are going to the GM NV in Jan, so we were worried about that room after experiencing this room. We did agree to the sales breakfast so I expected a better room, but we were not offered one - even as I saw them changing other people's rooms to ocean view.
Resort -
Room aside, the resort was fabulous. Loved the pool areas and the beach. We did get GM pool passes for the sales presentation so we also got to experience that area and the lazy river too. The MP pool was actually the best one for little kids. It had a shallow 2ft area that our 2 year old just loved splashing around in. The MP pool also had shade palapas around which was nice. The GM pool doesn't have the palapas, only umbrellas. There were a couple days where it was windy and the umbrellas couldn't be used so there was no shade at all by the GM pool - only the MP pool. The lazy river was nice, but it felt weird to not be able to sit around it like you can at other resorts. The beach was great too. There were a couple maintenance issues with the MP pool and missing pool tiles and some black algae in the tile grout. The pool deck was also very rough to walk on. But overall we loved the resort area and will probably be back once we can reserve a GM room through RCI.
Sales presentation-
The supposed 1 hour sales presentation ended up lasting 3 hours. We were given the GM passes, 25% off all excursions from their tour group - we did end up booking the catamaran trip to Bird Island, 10% off all room charges, and 1200pesos resort credit which we used for a nice dinner. Overall the presentation was low key. I actually felt the least pressured from any presentation I've been to at other resorts. The last presentation I attended at Grandview LV was much higher pressure than this.
The first offer for a 2bd GM was $116k. Wow! Then they offered us a trade in deal for our existing timeshares. When we said no, they brought out a 1bd MP contract that had 2 weeks, plus 2 vida weeks, plus 2 privilege weeks, plus free theme park access for $60k, they then applied trade in credit making it only $13k. We said we didn't want to trade in our existing timeshares, so the next offer was $13k with no trade in required. We said No MP, so then they offered us the 2bd GM unit with all the same privileges for the same $13k Price. Crazy how that offer was 1/10th the original price for better amenities. Final offer was $9k for a studio GM white season but with unlimited Sea Garden weeks which we easily declined. Then they took us over to the closer who said they could offer us the $13k GM unit for $5k, they got all the way down to $2k for that unit which was tempting - they claimed it was the same 100 year benefits but I was very skeptical from what I've read on here that it might be a trial offer or something. We declined and got our gifts.
Room -
We were quite disappointed with our MP room. They gave us a room on the first floor right off the main lobby with no view. The hallway didn't have A/C, was hot and stuffy all week, and the noise echoed through the hallway and into our room as people walked by talking. The bed was hard as a rock. I know the MP is the lower end brand, but I guess I expected more from the room. Our room had maintenance issues galore - the A/C didn't work in the bedroom until halfway through the week and then we froze as the thermostat didn't work. The living room A/C still worked so we had that cranked up. The drywall plaster in the bathroom fell down halfway through as well due to it being wet from a clogged A/C drain pipe. There were bugs - mosquitoes, spiders, and roaches in the hallways and in our room. And just general other upkeep issues we found. We are going to the GM NV in Jan, so we were worried about that room after experiencing this room. We did agree to the sales breakfast so I expected a better room, but we were not offered one - even as I saw them changing other people's rooms to ocean view.
Resort -
Room aside, the resort was fabulous. Loved the pool areas and the beach. We did get GM pool passes for the sales presentation so we also got to experience that area and the lazy river too. The MP pool was actually the best one for little kids. It had a shallow 2ft area that our 2 year old just loved splashing around in. The MP pool also had shade palapas around which was nice. The GM pool doesn't have the palapas, only umbrellas. There were a couple days where it was windy and the umbrellas couldn't be used so there was no shade at all by the GM pool - only the MP pool. The lazy river was nice, but it felt weird to not be able to sit around it like you can at other resorts. The beach was great too. There were a couple maintenance issues with the MP pool and missing pool tiles and some black algae in the tile grout. The pool deck was also very rough to walk on. But overall we loved the resort area and will probably be back once we can reserve a GM room through RCI.
Sales presentation-
The supposed 1 hour sales presentation ended up lasting 3 hours. We were given the GM passes, 25% off all excursions from their tour group - we did end up booking the catamaran trip to Bird Island, 10% off all room charges, and 1200pesos resort credit which we used for a nice dinner. Overall the presentation was low key. I actually felt the least pressured from any presentation I've been to at other resorts. The last presentation I attended at Grandview LV was much higher pressure than this.
The first offer for a 2bd GM was $116k. Wow! Then they offered us a trade in deal for our existing timeshares. When we said no, they brought out a 1bd MP contract that had 2 weeks, plus 2 vida weeks, plus 2 privilege weeks, plus free theme park access for $60k, they then applied trade in credit making it only $13k. We said we didn't want to trade in our existing timeshares, so the next offer was $13k with no trade in required. We said No MP, so then they offered us the 2bd GM unit with all the same privileges for the same $13k Price. Crazy how that offer was 1/10th the original price for better amenities. Final offer was $9k for a studio GM white season but with unlimited Sea Garden weeks which we easily declined. Then they took us over to the closer who said they could offer us the $13k GM unit for $5k, they got all the way down to $2k for that unit which was tempting - they claimed it was the same 100 year benefits but I was very skeptical from what I've read on here that it might be a trial offer or something. We declined and got our gifts.
