Update-Royal Prestige vacation

This is an update to messages posted a few weeks ago about free hotel accomodations from Royal Prestige (through VIP services). My fi and I just returned from Cancun. We stayed at the Yalmakan Hotel-Blue Paradise Resort for 4 nights - free. There was no catch. We went to see a demo on Royal Prestige products a few months ago and were asked to fill out a survey on it. This was exactly what they said on the phone, and we earned the vacation. Then, we got another vacation to Cancun because we bought one of their products. They promised there was no timeshares to look at etc. Everything went smoothly. The resort asks to meet with everyone who stays there- even if they have a timeshare there. We met with them just before checkout to turn in our evaluation of the hotel. They said they would have a salesperson show a suite. We declined and they said "No problem". There was no pressure.

The hotel was no better or worse than I expected from a 3 star hotel. It is no frills. The room was simple and bug-free. That is all we had hoped for. The all-inclusive pckg. cost us $40/day. This covered all meals and drinks. The only bad thing that happened was we booked trips through the concierge. He did not tell us about the scuba diving packages. We only bought 1 trip individually before we found out about the pckg. of dives from outsiders. The concierge was unable to get us the rest of the dives at the package price, so we bought nothing else from him and he got no tip. I do not recommend this trip as a honeymoon, but it is ok for a long weekend to get some fun in the sun. It takes 2 hours to get to Cozumel from there- great diving. Confirm everthing yourself before leaving, and do not book day trips with the concierge. Book directly through the sponsor or the dive shop on site.