Do not book
I recently attended a wedding at XCaret Mexico over Labor Day and my vacation travel agent was Maria Snizik in Ohio.
Initially, when the trip was booked months ago, Maria was very on top of it, and got our flights and reservations scheduled for myself and 5 others in my family. We were very excited to go to XCaret for a cousin's wedding.
However, after our trip was booked in April of 2019, we had plentiful issues contacting Maria and receiving information. I was very proactive and reached out to her to get information about excursions and dining, and each time she said we can schedule in a couple weeks. So I continued to reach out when I did not hear from her. But she still said we have to wait longer. There were several months when she did not return my phone calls or emails. I eventually had to contact all of the other team members at the Ohio Office just to get her to return my message. I was very frustrated with this. I had to contact other people at the office on three different occasions because she would not return my emails/phone calls. I was able to move past this over time because I was excited for Mexico.
However, a couple of months before our stay at XCaret, Maria sent us forms to fill out for the dining and excursions, but she never got back to us to let us know if they were confirmed. I continued to contact her and did not hear back. This was very stressful and created a lot of anxiety for our family. I even contacted the resort independently and they said if I had the confirmation number I could book these things. I was more than happy to book these myself. But, when I reached out to Maria several times, she did not respond with the confirmation number at all. She seemed all talk--telling us everything she was going to do, and then nothing ever happened. It was a waste of time and energy to work with her.
Two days before the wedding, she still did not know if anything was confirmed.
When we arrived at the resort, they had no dining reservations scheduled for us and no excursions. We had paid Maria to do these things for us. We had requested 2 parks and 3 dinners. They were not able to accommodate us for any of the dining reservations because they were booked out. I do not understand why or how Maria was not able to reserve any of these things for us. We spent all of our first day at the resort being extremely stressed out trying to book things last minute with the hotel. It was not until after we were checked in at the hotel that Maria actually reserved a ruins tour for us.
We are very dissatisfied with our vacation planning through Maria. We paid a lot of money to go to Mexico, and we missed out on so many things that were included. I have planned many trips on my own and through other tour companies, and this was the worst experience I have ever had. Not only was the communication from Maria disappointing and concerning, but we missed out on more than half the things we planned to do at the resort. I would hate for anyone else to have to work with her and have the same experience, especially if it's someone's honeymoon or wedding. Those are special days that should be easy, fun, and some of the best days of your life.