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Ramada Plaza Veterans

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We frequently hear from those who, in a moment of weakness, agreed to Ramada Plaza's pitch and paid a deposit. "What now?" they ask.

Joyce of Liberty MO has this advice:
We learned one very valuable lesson with our Ramada Resort adventure: if you can't cancel -- COMPLAIN! THREATEN! Be just as stubborn and nasty to the promoters as they are to you!

When we found out we couldn't cancel, we threatened the agency handling the details of the vacation with a lawsuit. They upgraded our car, our hotel suite and our suite on the ship. And yes, we flat out told the timeshare salesmen NO we didn't want to buy. It took us three hours, at least 15 NO's, and at least three sales reps, but we got our cruise tickets and went out.

I've become a lot warier of cruise vacations -- "great offers" in the mail but I don't believe ANYTHING about a vacation package sight unseen. We were luckier than most, I think. We weren't really expecting anything really fabulous because we went on the internet and did some research when we got our brochure. We knew what the Ocean Breeze looked like. It could have been a lot worse, but by complaining long and loud, we did manage to better our deal.

By the way, it may be small comfort to those people who like us wound up on the Imperial Majesty Cruiseship Ocean Breeze, but it's been decommissioned and put out of service

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