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• Review fromTerri T

  Date: 07/05/2024

  1 star
  Awful company. Ruined a couple of our vacations. They stand behind nothing!

• Review fromMichael H

  Date: 05/30/2024

  1 star
  This is just a warning to those looking into Adventure Gateways. Hopefully you'll read this before you sign. 1] They'll tell you to put away your cell phones. Why? Because they don't want you looking anything up during the presentation, especially this website. 2] When it comes to the BBB website, they'll tell you "Ignore that. It's not us. Go to this other company over here." They really don't want you to read the comments. Trust me. It is this company and they do business with several other names. 3] When we got the paperwork after signing, it had 4 different names and addresses in it. We sent certified letters to all 4 to cancel our contract. 1 of the addresses was a laundromat; 1 was just bogus (the post office couldn't send a certified letter to it); 1 was a lawyer's office; and the last was the processing company. This isn't a cozy little company; it's like a online scam with a live presentation. 4] They tell you the complaints are bogus. The line at our presentation was something like "the only complaint was from a wife that found out about her husband's affair when the membership cards showed up in the mail". I could go on, but I'll just an "Amen" to all of the other 1-star reviews.

• Review fromKathy W

  Date: 02/07/2024

  1 star
  They lied about everything and took our money and us! Never so upset and humiliated that we fell for this scam

• Review fromMelissa L

  Date: 09/27/2023

  1 star
  Expensive lesson in run don’t walk when your gut tells you to. Wish the presenter had encouraged us to look more into the travel agency we were already members of instead of rolling his eyes when we mentioned the name and taking our money anyway. We were to blame for this gross waste of funds and wish we had walked out. Sadly, we will not get back what we spent and could use it in the current economy. Lesson learned.

• Review fromAurica N

  Date: 08/30/2023

  1 star
   It’s the second time we received this invitation. At first we got cut in the crowd spend several hours listening to someone the rudest creature bs getting very mad because we don’t agree and believe their bs lies. We don’t got anything they promised in the voucher.Here we are again with the same bs.

• Review fromMark W

  Date: 06/14/2023

  1 star
  Adventure Getaways is not 1 star. It is 0 stars. Simply, my "2023 Travel and Excursion Showcase" invitation to buy a membership in Adventure Getaways clearly states, "In exchange for attending, you will receive two COMPLIMENTARY round trip airline vouchers. These vouchers are for couples and valid for travel within the continental US." They are NOT complimentary. You have to spend $50 to get the certificate allowing you to learn It costs another $398 to cover fees with the travel agent. So you are out $448 to use the vouchers. Travel is for the east or west zone of the US thus NOT continental and must commence on a Sunday, Monday or Tuesday for two-night stay only. And it is promotional so there is no telling about the realistic chance of getting the dates you want. Furthermore, on my invitation, it says ********, ****** or *****. Not true, on the certificate it offers **** ***, ***** *, or similar. Also, included was a $100 dinner voucher (not vouchers) good at over "45,000" restaurants. Actually, it is for four $25 vouchers sent one a month over four months requiring the total ticket at check-out to be at least $50 so it is actually a 50% discount. It cost $12.95 to activate those. Worse, each of the vouchers must be spent at one restaurant and many restaurants don't "offer" a $25 use but rather $10. So you can use two $10 vouchers (max of one per visit) and the $5 balance has no value. SO it is really a $20 voucher. Oh, on the invitation it offers ********* ********. Historically, they do not pay commissions to travel agents. I guess the $448.00 covers that. At NO point were these limitations provided to me before the presentation.

• Review fromTrishie V

  Date: 04/30/2023

  1 star
  Adventure Getaways LLC is owned by **** ******** and ***** ********* **** offers to sell “getaways” at 8995.00$ and then if you don’t raise your hand they ask/request then you aren’t privileged to receive their offer of 2,000$ off! Uh so you receive tiny print “vouchers” that you are required to pay in order to activate. The fees range from 14.99$ to 50.00$ to activate. Never have I had to pay fifty dollars to a website to redeem an offer promised to me for my time severed. Mind you- presentation was to last a duration of 90 minutes. **** will not be respectful of this timeline and will encroach into a 2.5 hour “talk” while vying on the elderly or perhaps undereducated individuals. I was born at night, but not last night! I feel sorry for those taken advantage of and who were naïve. If it sounds like it’s too good to be true, it almost always is. This LLC is formed under the showstoppers ********** ********.  This was nothing more than a used car salesman type of pitch, held in the basement of a poorly lit ********** hotel in ************,Missouri. I felt it was difficult to leave after declining to purchase their 8,995.00$ “promotion “ and then it kept getting reduced until I continued to say stop. I said no to 8995.00$, no to 4995.00$ and also no to 2995.00$. Don’t be duped. You can make your own price, if you should decide to buy. They will literally take anything that you are willing to offer, in return you will receive a flimsy piece of paper declaring that in the end you can pay 50$ to redeem your “gift”. Usually you don’t have to pay for a gift. Think smart people!

• Review fromKyle P

  Date: 03/09/2023

  1 star
  Received an invitation in the mail to their seminar/sales pitch in exchange for 2 free airline tickets with 2 nights at a hotel included. The invitation does not tell you the name of the company - it actually framed it as a completely different event in the mailer & also over the phone when I scheduled it. They do require both spouses to attend. My wife & I figured it was worth the 90 minutes of sales pressure for the offer (and looking back we were a bit naïve), but at the time I thought who knows maybe it was legit. Well, without getting into all the details, bottom line it is not. It is marketed 100% to retirees and empty nesters (by design, I found out later - the marketing company they hire hits that demographic specifically, which I am not - I received the invitation as a fluke), using a completely bogus “free tickets & hotels!” scam to lure in older couples who they know are more likely to have the extra $$ and fall for their “buy today only to save thousands!” pitch. The tickets/hotel offer costs $400 to even look at booking, as other have said, and even more egregious, you can only depart Sunday-Tuesday. No weekends. Ridiculous. Obviously none of this is mentioned prior, or even in the seminar. This is before you even get into all the misleading statements about their actual services, should be duped into spending anywhere from $4-9K. It’s all sad, carnival-barker stuff, predatory sales preying on unsuspecting grandparents. The whole thing is depressing. Avoid at all costs…but likely, if you are reading this, their marketing worked on some level. Hopefully my review keeps one couple from attending.

• Review fromVanessa M

  Date: 02/25/2023

  1 star
  On 2/24/23 this evening, my husband and I went to listen a 2023 travel and excursion showcase that we signed up for after receiving an invite in the mail. We didn’t know what company it was until we arrived for the actual presentation. After listening to the pitch my husband and I was very leery. Before the presentation started we were told to silence our phones or not to look at them or the presentation would start over. After listening to the presenter and then talking to the person that tried to offers us a deal, we decided to forego because the person didn’t seem to know the full information that was presented to us doing the presentation. Thank goodness we decided to not purchase anything. After receiving the so called free vouchers for dining, airfare and hotel, we found out that not only are there multiple BBB complaints, but this business isn’t BBB accredited after being told this business has been in existence for 28 years with only 1 complaint. I also checked and read the vouchers and as my parents taught me, NOTHING in life is free. Im do very glad I decided to investigate and not jump in and buy. I just want to notify after reading the various complaints that I didn’t purchase a thing, but these reviews concerning the promises are true.