Global Travel

I keep receiving calls from this scammy company.
I attended a bridal show last month and suddenly these people start calling me. They called themselves Allegiant Tours but they have gone through so many names.
When we supposedly won these same tickets a year ago we actually went to the presentation. Same office location of:
1919 Highland Ave.
Building B
Lombard, IL
At that time, similar to other reviews, we sat for a 90 minute presentation on their travel club. Everyone there was clueless. The two presenters, first the woman, then the «manager’ who «just happened to be in town» were total snake oil salesmen.
After the presentation they bring you into the large room at the back and it is clear that these poor salespeople are desperate. It is clearly a job marketed to unsuspecting college students. They kept us in the cramped room showing us pictures of vacations and talking about the «amazing deal» we were getting every time they lowered the price for over 30 minutes.
It was like pulling teeth to get the voucher for the airline tickets and the hotel stay out of them.
When we got home we found that the original girl had lied to us. We DO have to pay taxes for these tickets… so much in fact that I’m fairly sure we were paying for the actual cost of the flight. In addition you had to send the vouchures into another company, pay money, receive other vouchers, send the NEW vouchers into the company, pay a little more, and then they will give you a schedule with huge amounts of blackout dates.
For all the hassle and fussing, I’d rather spend the same amount of money booking my trip online by myself and not risk credit card theft by these charlatans masquerading as time share salesmen.

It looks like they are still at it. We attended a Bridal expo at the Mariot in downtown Chicago and received a call that we had won a trip. We just had to come down to Lombard (1919 S. Highland Ave, ste 210) and attend a 90 min presentation. Initially we were excited, but after just typing in the address in google, you get a whole bunch of alerts to this predatory company.
One question you should ask yourself after reading this:
Why are there so many different names for this company, but all in the same address and suite?
Yeah, what a joke.
I assume we got entered into this from one of the few travel agencies that attended the expo downtown. I wonder if Mariot even cares about this, but I would love to let them know.
Lastly, it’s not the kind of scam where they steal your identity or anything like that, and I’m sure its legal in some way, but its still a shame because there are plenty of legitimate travel agencies out there that do not do this.

Thanks for the detailed review. I just got a call from these folks and as soon as they found out I didn’t meet their eligibility requirements (single, not married) they couldn’t wait to get me off the phone. I asked what their web site is and whatever they gave me didn’t work… but a Google search did. Dodged this bullet…

Wow thanks so much for the detailed review. I actually got a similar call last week saying I won this awesome prize when I attended a bridal show. I actually sort of fell for the sales pitch since they insisted no obligation to come listen to them and then get free airline tickets. I had a feeling this was some scam and so glad I read this before wasting or time to drive to Lombard for this. I don’t have patience for these type of sales tactics. I agree, for those of us who read ahead of time, we know how to travel as well and no need to waste time on buying false advertising.

This place may also operate under «Lombard Travel» or «Sentry Travel» with an address at
1919 S. Highland Ave.
Building B
Lombard, IL 60 148
it’s all a huge waste of time. Watch out for web addresses


among others.
They also apparently operated at another address in Lombard:
200 W. 22^nd St., Lombard, IL 60 148‑4864
See the
alert page for them:

Thank you for the heads up on this scamming company!
My best friend and I were both «raffle winners» of the roundtrip airfare and hotel packages, which is quite the coincidence considering I was told that only 10 brides were selected at random… After reading the negative reviews on this website and the D– rating given by the Better Business Bureau, I declined my invitation to the Northbrook office, and made it clear to the representative who contacted me that we would not be attending due to the unethical nature of these sales pitches.

Katie H. THANK YOU. My husband & I were going to endure the 90 minutes tomorrow to get «2 free airplane tickets anywhere in the USA» with NO intention of buying anything — we are graduates of the 90 minute presentations, but for some reason we almost attended this. Your review was hilarious, but so sad (for them, not you)

Scam alert.
We attended the 90 minute presentation «how to save money on travel» to get 2 free plane tix. We had no intention of buying whatever they were selling — we know how to travel cheaply.
We entered a nondescript office with no permanent sign, a trashy sales agent started off the presentation by asking everyone where their ultime DREAM destination, money no object, would be. The 1^st couple said Aruba (whoa, dream big). We said Maldives and the woman, who said she was a travel agent, had no idea where that was.
Then she went around the room and asked each couple how much they thought the dream trip would cost. Aruba people said $ 6k for 7 days. Are you kidding me? Our 14 day trip to South Africa will be around that!
The the pitch begins. Global Travel is not a timeshare, it a full service travel agency that provides week long stays at 5-​star resorts and condos for $ 119 in the US and $ 189 international. They have thousands around the world! Of course, when you ask for specifics they tell you that the inventory changes so much they can’t guarantee anything. They said they have tons of properties in Florida, Hawaii, Cancun, etc.
But even if you can’t take advantage of the low weekly rate at a condo, the full-​service travel agency can get you 50% off hotels around the world plus 30−40% off flights and car rentals and cruises!
So after an hour about how awesome this is, they finally get down to cost. $ 14,900 gets you membership FOR LIFE (passed on to your kids, and grandkids). $ 189 is the on-​time processing fee, and $ 389 is the yearly «activity fee». If you don’t book a trip that year, you don’t pay. Of course, if you only book one, that $ 389 could cancel out any savings. You get 2 peak weeks at the weekly $ ¹¹⁹⁄₁₈₉ rate plus 2 off-​peak weeks, booked 2 – 4 months in advance. You also get 2 last minute weeks at the weekly rate that cost an additional $ 200 to book.
So we’re sitting there, clearly not going to do this, but watching all the people who are eating this up. We fill out our survey with info on us I’m assuming this is so they can give us their pitch on how we can save tons, so I pick our next trips to places I highly doubt they have properties, like Russia and Laos.
So then we get paired up with an agent and go to the sales room where there’s a «tiki-​hut» and blaring music (so you can’t hear the deal the table next to you is getting). Then they announce that because this is the anniversary of this particular office (really, then why don’t you even have a sign?) the price is going to roll back to what is was in 1989 — just $ 11,900. After another 10 minutes they annouce that the first two people to sign up can take an additional $ 1000 off (all the agents «wow» and clap like this is so unheard of).
Our agent starts the pitch by telling us all about him and then asking all about us. We immediately say we’re not intrested because, while the premise is sound, it doesn’t fit our style of travel. We never stay in one place for a whole week (so if we wanted to use all 4 weeks to stay in 4 places internationally over a week or so, it would be $ 800. We only spent $ 700 for 10 days in Spain!) and we HATE large resorts/​megahotels.
Sales guy continues to pitch, we continue to say no. He shows us pictures of more resorts, we say «okay, nice, but we’re not interested». He tries to show us how much money would could save on our upcoming South Africa trip by going with them — MY trip actually comes out cheaper! Finally he says he needs to bring his manager over for our official decline.
Manager comes over and pitches some more, and then says they may have another plan that could work for us. It’s only $ 4500 for the membership to get one peak week and one off-​peak week. We say no, he says if we just put $ 100 down we can get started now. We say no, he and sales guy excuse themselves.
Sales guy comes back with a folded piece of paper and and says manager told him not to open it. We open it and it says $ 2500 on it. Sales guy is all «wow, I’ve never seen that deal before!». Manager comes back and talks all about how low this price is and just $ 100 will get us started. We say no again, now put off by the desperation.
Sales guy whips out our «free gift», the 2 free plane tickets that are LOADED with so many hoops it becomes clear we will never use them and practially pushes us out the door.
Don’t make the same mistake we did to try to get free tickets. There’s always a catch and you’ll have to deal with these smarmy sales guys. I feel bad for the gullible people who get suckered and and lose money, but come on people. How naïve can you be?