Sugar Reef Travel Clubs Free Holiday

by **blondie123** on Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:41 pm

hiya!! im just wondering if anyone has been on the free holiday you get wen u av been to the presentation????

i went to the dwvc today but wasnt interested in the holiday club so just got the free holiday u get for goin there.

has anyone been on it coz bit worried bout sending off �49 each off if its not real !!!!!!!!!!

also if anyone has been did u have to go to any meetings whilst you were there!!!

please help!! thanks xx

by **Fred 2** on Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:20 pm

"The Judge" in the Sunday Mail had this to say in May 07. This writer is a very reliable source. Shortened.

"TravelQueen Lisa De-Ville Bradshaw is back with a brand new holiday offer sure to leave you with sweet nothing. Her latest venture, The Sugar Reef Travel Club, promises 'free' breaks for a one-off booking fee of �49. Bradshaw, 40, was behind Devon-based Travel Quest, Global Traveller and Atlantis Vacations which all went bust leaving scores of clients out of pocket."

There's your answer - and if you still want to risk it, yes you would have to go to a brainwashing session while there, and you would be charged full price on the spot if you did not.

by **weary** on Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:40 pm

HI Blondie we also had an holiday offer and accepted it paid the �49 per person x4 was given a date that was totally incapable of achieving re offer flights from the furtherst away from you. There are hidden costs like transfers from airports which you have to find your own �35 each way. The insurence costs. They give you a date to reply within 2 days of holiday offered and you feel you have to take out their insurence as you have no time to find others because of the deadline to meet the acceptance. That will be another �25.50 per person with clause of over 70yrs. You can refuse then they offer a holiday of your choice and time but you pay your own flights then. or they offer a mini break in the UK of two or three nights with no garantee of getting it. nothing is easy, they are polite on the phone and you feel they are genuine but beware, we still are waiting for this free holiday after paying �200 in administration fees. we have declined the actual holiday re the airport is well away from us and have a disabled husband. they very kindly offered a mini break times two in the uk from cornwall to scotland but you will have to keep phoning to see if there are any on offer at the time you can go. I will let everyone know the outcome of this if we every get the free holiday "cough" . signed weary.

by **weary** on Fri Jul 20, 2007 4:49 pm

Hi again just had to ring the Suger Reef Company as they make taking the holiday a very risky chance to take and after reading Fred 2 I say listen to him don,t do it, I was offered mini breaks in uk times two. There is no garentee that this will take off but as usual they reassure you that this is ok and it will happen???????? They do no trefund the money as it is a subscription fee to join the club, so we will loss the money as an very expensive lesson in not trusting your instincts. I will keep trying out of principle but do not hold much hope but I will succeed in getting on thier nerves I hope. Weary!

by TG on Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:45 pm

we are also having real problems with this company and will be pursuing legal action via the small claims court if they dont refund our fee.we have taken advice from consumerdirect who think we may have a case as the conditions they impose on booking/accepting the offers are unfair and therefore probably unlawful.

by **mimmy** on Thu Aug 02, 2007 12:53 pm

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not give them your money! It is a complete scam. I have worked for this company and the woman in charge, Lisa de Ville Bradshaw, is a thoroughly nasty piece of work.

Do not give them anything. You will never get the holiday. Please tell everyone you know about this scam and do not let them give their money to these fraudsters.

by TG on Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:37 pm

has any one pursued a complaint and if necessary taken it to court??

by **T0mson** on Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:22 pm

Thanks for all the info guys, I have just won a weekend break for 2 in disneyland paris from a scratch card (the scratch card compay purley creative) and guess who supplys the holiday! yep the sugar reef travel club. The compay wants me to send �150 each for a deposit which is apparently refunable!! well after reading what you guys had to say about the company I dont think i'll be parting with my money. Sounds like a complete con.

by TG on Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:13 pm

As a result of me filing an official complaint at the small claims court we have just received a full refund of our fee and costs from Travel Reef,prior to any actual court action.this would suggest that travel reef are just hoping no one will test them out and wait for the threat of court action and any possible legal ruling or bad press to force them to pay out.well worth considering if you are in a similar position.

by **nd386** on Sun Nov 18, 2007 5:03 pm

This has been very useful for me. We got a call offering us a holiday for just �49 each and all we had to do was attend a presentation with no obligation. We knew we had no intention of buying whatever they were selling, but since my family live near Exeter we decided to combine a family visit with a trip to pick up our "free" (ie �49 each) holiday voucher.

At the presentation itself we had a very nice young man who was on his third day in the job, and was clearly struggling a bit with it. We explained to him that we always either go camping or hire holdiay cottages and don't do resorts and couldn't afford to even if we wanted to (which we don't). His boss (who I think was the Jeremy Beadle lookalike mentioned earlier - he also had smelly breath!) came over and once he realised we were a lost cause they really didn't bother us too much after that. We sat through a tedious presentation by a very up-beat guy who didn't pronounce his 'H's and who kept asking us all sorts of questions which I couldn't answer because I wasn't listening! Although we weren't subject to any hard sell, I think this was because they realised that we were a pair of hippies and that it would be a total waste of time with us, but there were a lot of other people in the room who did seem to be getting sucked in.

We got our �10 B&Q vouchers and our brochure about the "free" holiday with Sugar Reef Travel Club and decided that it had been worth it if we got a cheap family holiday out of it (�49 each still seemed a bargain).

I therefore decided today to check out the Sugar Reef website to see where we could go, but the only thing on the site was a copy of the leaflet which we already had. This made me suspicious and so I ended up here on this site. This thread and the one about the Sugar Reef Travel Club have been very helpful and we have decided not to send off our �200. Thanks to everyone for sharing their experiences - it has probably saved us a lot of money