Highland Holiday Homes Complaints & Reviews

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Guys this is a fake company who dupe people in name of holiday membership. The owner and branches Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore call people for quiz and ask them to come to their gift voucher to their office or hotel. The owner has criminal history o[censored]sing name of Bajaj brand to get money from visitors stating its a Bajaj group. Please donot invest in this activity. Holiday Homes people are fraud and lie.

to me too, they told it as bajaj group while duping. cheater for sure

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Highland Holiday Homes Pvt. Ltd. — Membership sold based on false information

We had opted for a 5 years, 7days per year membership of Highland Holiday Homes, costing Rs. 35, 000/- ( Rs. Thirty Five Thousand Only) based on the following false information:

1) We had purchased the membership on a 12 months EMI plan, using HDFC Gold credit card. The sales person claimed that the company has a tie-up with HDFC and the payment would be converted EMIs, and the interest, service charges and service tax would be borne by Highland Holiday Homes. On enquiring with HDFC, we were informed that there is no such scheme available and they have no tie up with Highland Holiday Homes.

2) The sales managers present on the day of the booking, Mr. Siddharth Savvi and Mr. Zayed Shaikh, told us that we would have to pay a utility charge ranging for $99 to $149 + Rs. 2000/- for a week’s stay in any international resort owned by daelive.com. Further they said that the stay could be split across multiple locations and resorts at the same charge. They worked out an itinerary with the above costing for us, to give us an estimate for the Malaysia tour that we were planning. We were informed today by Ms. Seema, at the Shah Hira Office, that such a split is not possible. If we knew this earlier, we would not have purchased the membership.

3) We were promised the following discounts on travel arrangement, throughout the term of the membership:
a. 20% discount on rail/air bookings
b. 50% on car bookings for sightseeing
c. 20% discount on all meals at the resort booked by HHH at any location
We were shocked to learn later that all these discounts are not part of the membership, and this was just a story cooked up by the sales person, so as to sell the product.

4) The available international resorts shown during the presentation were from the daelive and RCI brochures. On checking the daelive.com site, we found that many of the resorts shown in the booklet were not present on the site, and the company does not have a tie-up with RCI.

We have submited a written compaint and cancellation request to the Pune Branch Office on 30th May 2009. A copy has also been emailed to the Head office located at:

Cisons complex
150, Monteith Road
5th Floor,
Egmore,
Chennai-600 008
India
Tel:[protected]
Fax:[protected]

I am worried that I will not be refunded the booking amount, and the company will cheat others of their hard earned money.

This Siddharth and Zayed should be taught a lesson by beating them up...simply cheating peoples and eating their money...
i have heard that Zayed was previously working in Hyderabad branch and was beaten up by some peoples over there so they transferred him to pune.

I would say, you are at least lucky that they have acknowledged your membership. You should take whatever they offer and recover whatever you can.

With me they are not even acknowledging the membership although I have given them all the proofs of the payment including communication from the credit card bank.

You are also not able to speak to any senior managers if you feel the customer service managers are not able to understand your problem.

HIGHLAND HOLIDAY HOMES PVT LMT. — cheated by HIGHLAND HOLIDAY HOMES PVT LMT.

I was made fool by this so called company HIGHLAND HOLIDAY HOMES PVT LMT.we paid 25000/- for 5 yrs.and Now no ways to return my money.I lost this and did very bad decision in my life.

I called them and they said the membership cannot be cancelled, can only be transfered. Since we have not used any of their services, cannot log any case also. Is there any way we could get the money back before availing anything... Please reply.

Highland Holiday Homes Pvt. Ltd. — Cheated in membership

My Name is Mohd. Imran Shaikh

I have taken the membership in Highland Holiday Homes Pvt. Ltd. for 3 years (August' 2008 TO August ' 2011) and my membership No. is HC-3-1907. I would like to complaint about this company that Highland Holiday is Big fraud company and they are not giving any single service to their customer, and infact when I called them for any booking they directly say it is under renovation/construction or either it is totally full.
From last 3 Years I had called them atleast 10 to 12 times for booking, but they had denied for the booking and also not giving positive feedback and when I asked for refund of my membership amount Rs. 15000/- they started to give bad words and become very rude with me and my family, Infact I have seen many customer complaining and shouting at their mumbai Office about the same complaint and also we can see the same issue on this consumer complaint site also. Whenever we call them in advance (45 days before) for booking they are saying that resort is under renovation or it is full and if you want we will give booking in other resort but with very high charges besides what they have committed at the time of membership registration. Kindly help us for getting our money back or atleast take some strict action on this company, so that they should not cheat to other innocent customer because all o[censored]s struggle very hard to earn our standard of living. If any customer who view this complaint kindly join with us and we will file complaint against this company (Highland Holiday Homes Pvt. Ltd.) My E-mail ID is [protected]@rediffmail.com

Hi Imran,
I also purchased a membership of Highland last week, and getting to know they are cheats. We should gather all such cheated persons and together take the case to consumer court.
Piyush,
[protected]@yahoo.co.uk

i too am just fooled in same way please let me know further details on refund... mail me [protected]@gmail.com

Hi,

We are also BIGGEST victims of this fraud that has duped me for 25K inApril' 2010. We have also gone through same process like asking three questions then declaring as winner and asked us to visit their office along with my wife and explained about their packages for 1 hour by some trained MBA students. Then we took the membership for 5 years and they have asked us to pay through credit cards then convert the same amount into EMIs we will refund the interest charged by the bank .

We did the same and produced the Credit card statements after converting the so called amount to EMIs to this fraud company. Then the really story get begun. They started arguing that they would refund only 7% of the total amount. I had to fight, abuse and threaten for amost a month month and
finally after that I received the Cheque.

The Sales rep also informed me that in case I want to go out on a holiday and if I call in for a booking 15 days before my journey date I shall get a confirmed booking, which is not at all true. I had to travel to Lonavala and Mahabaleshwar on 28th may and 1st june respectively, I called them and asked to do the bookings for the same. The reply i received was all the bookings are full.

The sales rep told me that over and above the membership charges I had to pay some utitity charges to which I asked her "What if I do not use the utilities? Will I still have to pay the charges?" she said no... Later When I tried booking the resort I was informed that thos were manditory charges. So I asked what are the Utility charges... she informed me that for Domestic its Rs 500 per day for 4 persons in thier own resorts and Rs. 650 in affiliated resorts... again this proved to be false information as the lonavala resort which is their own... I was informed that I had to pay Rs 1000 as utilty charges per day and in Mahabaleshwar I had o pay Rs 3000 per day.Hence I did not utlise their services.

This is the first company I have seen where the Head office does not have any information about their branch offices but the branch offices have all the information about all the other branch offices... And is the also great to hear that Highland Holiday Homes was barred from doing any business by Sebi for 5 years beacuase of a fraud.

Heres the link to that :-- http://www.sebi.gov.in/satorders/Highland.html

I am trying to cancel the membership but as per their dirty terms & conditions it’s not been cancelled. Guys why dont we come together and file a case againt Highland Holidays in the Consumer court.

Regards,
Jayesh Rathod
+91- [protected]

I completely agree with jatin. Similar story for me too. i have made the payment through credit card and all.
But they said if i am not going to utilise the service in the perticular year then they will give me a refund of 15500 for that perticular year but i need to give a letter to them so that they can sell the same to others, but story begins here when i had called to them saying that i am not making any booking this year and plese sell my package to others and refund the money for this perticular year. on this they said me that i need to find customer to sell it and inform to holiday homes... is not it amazing? forget aBOUT THIS
Once i wanted to make a booking and similar thing happened with me as jayesh they started asking me i need to pay 1500 for utility charges and all.
@Jayesh i m also with you, i think we should definitely file a case against them.

Rajan
[protected]
Hyderabad.

Please contact on this Number you will get the Refund

[protected] -- Sanjay Bajaj ( Big Fruad )

Highland Holiday Homes Pvt. Ltd. — cheating in service providing and commitments

i took membership of this company in 2005. They are not giving proper service and taking higher charges also. At that time they told their utility charges is Rs.350 PER DAY for two couple and four childrens. Now taking much higher. On otherside if we ask booking for their tie up affilated resorts, they firstly only refuse me to say that occupancy is full, Any time, once they take booking in off session they ask me sp. utility charge that is eqal to tarrif of that hotel. (1) taking higher utility charges for their own and too much for aff. hotels.(2) taking double charges for two couples.(3) at time booking they only try to refuge by saying ocuupancy full or booking should be 2 month beore. Sir we are very upset by taking membership. If we ask them to cancel it, they says that is not possible. They took 46000 RS.as mem charges. They call at taht time many persons by telling lie statments ,you have got lucky draw and so after that at night time 10p.m they fix meetings and takes membership by telling false service. SIR pl. help me to solve this problem THANKS

facing similar problem .

Highland Holidays Resorts Pvt. Ltd. — Be Aware of this Fraud Company

Main point:
Make their publicity by taking well known company name Bajaj Company
Asks customers to pay by Credit Card and promise for refund of credit card service charges with they don’t give
Don’t provide services which they explain which explaining the customers.


Detailed Incidence:

We Ganesh Masurkar and Shreya Masurkar the subscribers of Holiday Schemes under the scheme type HC-3-CLASSIC dated 22/12/2007 as per receipt no. 33137 dated 22/12/2007 paid by Credit Card of HDFC Bank No. [protected] Rs. 14000- (Rupees Fourteen Thousand Only).

On a phone call invitation we were been invited at Catholic Gymkhana, Mumbai compulsorily along with spouse saying we are a lucky customer has been selected for a special gift from the Bajaj Company. (this company makes the publicity by using name of a well known company which itself is a big fraud)

On visit we were been explained various products of HHHPL by representative Ms. Supriya and one of the senior executive. At the time of purchase of this product we had been promised to get holidays for 25 days across 3 years in the resorts of HHHPL and their affiliated hotels. Along with additional services such as site seeing, pickup and drop facility to the nearest station/Airport, help in travel ticket booking for Bus, Railway and Air Tickets at the discounted prices, personal guidance for holiday bookings.

We were been forced to take the decision on the spot and make the payment, other wise will not be able to get the benefit of the scheme once left the premises. When we informed that we are not carrying any money with us we had been asked to pay the subscription charges by credit card, and we can convert the same amount payable in to six monthly installments and the company will refund us the charges levied by Credit Card Company on to the same transactions.

After reading the details given in the document provided by the HHHPL we found that the explained services are not mentioned in the document hence we had visited to the same place (Catholic Gymkhana) and meet the head of the marketing person and after explaining all the details to him he assured me to get all the benefit were been explained under this product for that we had been told to go to their Service branch office in Khar, Mumbai and Manager was supposed to talk to the respective Branch Manager. When we visited HHHPL Khar branch office and talked to the representative they assured us that all the explained services we will be getting at the time of booking the holiday. And they don’t mention all the services in the document as they give certain services to only for special customers so that they will not loose the business.

When we had visited the HHHPL Khar branch to book a holiday at Manali, we were been asked to come only before 30 days before the holiday to be booked and office staff just denied to take any bookings before 30 days. Then we asked them to at list give us details about the holiday to be booked for Manali, we were constantly asking for the details like what will be the Place for stay and its location, and they just denied to talk to us and said that they can not give any details before 30 days from the holiday day to be booked. We also asked about the facilities we are supposed to be getting as was promised while explaining this product to us, like help in train travel ticket, site seeing facility pickup and drop facility etc.

We also asked them that it is not fair as it was very difficult to get any train bookings only before 30 of holiday as train ticket bookings starts before 90 days, but your staff was just not responding to any of our queries and was very rude in taking to us.

There after several times we had tried to book holidays through Khar branch office in different resorts like Lonavala, Mahabalipuram and Goa but every time we were been told there are no free bookings available as the resorts are full.

After getting such a ridicules feed back we asked to cancel our membership and return the money, then HHHPL has sent us a letter asking to return the original documents and money will be refunded after deduction of 25% of the membership amount, which was again not informed to me at the time of subscribing this product.

HHHPL company is making publicity and approaching customers by taking name of well established company called "Bajaj" where as there is no relation between HHHPL and Bajaj Company it is a huge violation and cheating.

Hi,

We are also BIGGEST victims of this fraud that has duped me for 25K inApril' 2010. We have also gone through same process like asking three questions then declaring as winner and asked us to visit their office along with my wife and explained about their packages for 1 hour by some trained MBA students. Then we took the membership for 5 years and they have asked us to pay through credit cards then convert the same amount into EMIs we will refund the interest charged by the bank .

We did the same and produced the Credit card statements after converting the so called amount to EMIs to this fraud company. Then the really story get begun. They started arguing that they would refund only 7% of the total amount. I had to fight, abuse and threaten for amost a month month and
finally after that I received the Cheque.

The Sales rep also informed me that in case I want to go out on a holiday and if I call in for a booking 15 days before my journey date I shall get a confirmed booking, which is not at all true. I had to travel to Lonavala and Mahabaleshwar on 28th may and 1st june respectively, I called them and asked to do the bookings for the same. The reply i received was all the bookings are full.

The sales rep told me that over and above the membership charges I had to pay some utitity charges to which I asked her "What if I do not use the utilities? Will I still have to pay the charges?" she said no... Later When I tried booking the resort I was informed that thos were manditory charges. So I asked what are the Utility charges... she informed me that for Domestic its Rs 500 per day for 4 persons in thier own resorts and Rs. 650 in affiliated resorts... again this proved to be false information as the lonavala resort which is their own... I was informed that I had to pay Rs 1000 as utilty charges per day and in Mahabaleshwar I had o pay Rs 3000 per day.Hence I did not utlise their services.

This is the first company I have seen where the Head office does not have any information about their branch offices but the branch offices have all the information about all the other branch offices... And is the also great to hear that Highland Holiday Homes was barred from doing any business by Sebi for 5 years beacuase of a fraud.

Heres the link to that :-- http://www.sebi.gov.in/satorders/Highland.html

I am trying to cancel the membership but as per their dirty terms & conditions it’s not been cancelled. Guys why dont we come together and file a case againt Highland Holidays in the Consumer court.

Regards,
Jayesh Rathod
+91- [protected]

We were cheated in the same way in october 2010. We got into their trap and got a 2 year 9700 Rs package. on coming back home we checked for its reviewes and found that they are cheating their customers. As we had paid by credit card we called our bank and asked them to put the transaction on dispute ""Disputed the transaction" (initially the bank refused it cannot be done but we persisted). Along with it we faxed the details of our whole conversation along with link below to the bank
http://www.sebi.gov.in/satorders/Highland.html

We called Highland the next working day and asked them to cancel our registration but as usual they told you have to come down personally and you need to talk to our manager. Our manager cannot come over call as she is busy.
Their way of talking is very pathetic and the lady starts shouting on you if you persist.
We didnt go to their office in bangalore. But we faxed their chennai office to cancel our registration.
We faxed this letter copy again to the bank making sure that we had asked them to cancel our registration but they arent cancelling it. We also mentioned that we had just registered and havent used any of their services
Initially the bank told it will take 1 month to solve but later on changed it to 6 more months. we finally received a credit last week from the bank. :)

Disputing a transaction means, intially the bank will give a credit to whom we have made payment but will check for our concern and revert the credit in case the dispute comes in our favour.

Hi,

I also passed through the same type of heartburns. I went to Pune Mirror and my story also got published. Many of you also know that we formed a group and tried all sort of options. However with the help of my lawyer, I was able to get refund.

Regards,
Setu Shah
M: [protected]

Highland Holiday Homes Pvt. Ltd. — membership rules

Hi

I have taken a Membership from Highland Holiday Homes Pvt. Ltd. a part of cisions group...i was invited to collect a gift voucher of rs. 4000/-. when i went there i had attended a presentation...i liked the presention so i opted for the membership...

i have taken a membership of rs.35000/- for 5years...
they explained all the terms & conditions properly...i had a misunderstanding as bajaj group...but it was cleared by them. they told me that they are prt of cisions group & not bajaj group...it was me who had taken it as bajaj gorup in my mind...

i really dont understand why people dont read the agreement properly before buying it...they are not aware what they buy & then blame that the company has mislead them...

i also thought that they have misleaded me...but when i went back & enquired...they explaind me each & every thing...then i realised that i have taken a good membership scheme, , , , which is budgeted & very comfortable for our pockets...

Are you here to submit a complain against the company or appreciate a fraudulent company ? ? ? ? Readers... Attn Please.

Hi,

We are also BIGGEST victims of this fraud that has duped me for 25K inApril' 2010. We have also gone through same process like asking three questions then declaring as winner and asked us to visit their office along with my wife and explained about their packages for 1 hour by some trained MBA students. Then we took the membership for 5 years and they have asked us to pay through credit cards then convert the same amount into EMIs we will refund the interest charged by the bank .

We did the same and produced the Credit card statements after converting the so called amount to EMIs to this fraud company. Then the really story get begun. They started arguing that they would refund only 7% of the total amount. I had to fight, abuse and threaten for amost a month month and
finally after that I received the Cheque.

The Sales rep also informed me that in case I want to go out on a holiday and if I call in for a booking 15 days before my journey date I shall get a confirmed booking, which is not at all true. I had to travel to Lonavala and Mahabaleshwar on 28th may and 1st june respectively, I called them and asked to do the bookings for the same. The reply i received was all the bookings are full.

The sales rep told me that over and above the membership charges I had to pay some utitity charges to which I asked her "What if I do not use the utilities? Will I still have to pay the charges?" she said no... Later When I tried booking the resort I was informed that thos were manditory charges. So I asked what are the Utility charges... she informed me that for Domestic its Rs 500 per day for 4 persons in thier own resorts and Rs. 650 in affiliated resorts... again this proved to be false information as the lonavala resort which is their own... I was informed that I had to pay Rs 1000 as utilty charges per day and in Mahabaleshwar I had o pay Rs 3000 per day.Hence I did not utlise their services.

This is the first company I have seen where the Head office does not have any information about their branch offices but the branch offices have all the information about all the other branch offices... And is the also great to hear that Highland Holiday Homes was barred from doing any business by Sebi for 5 years beacuase of a fraud.

Heres the link to that :-- http://www.sebi.gov.in/satorders/Highland.html

I am trying to cancel the membership but as per their dirty terms & conditions it’s not been cancelled. Guys why dont we come together and file a case againt Highland Holidays in the Consumer court.

Regards,
Jayesh Rathod
+91- [protected]

Same is true for us as well. We went to Kodia Kanal which was then their property and I had to pay, was going to open a dispute with them but due to lack of time did not do it. Today again when I tried to Book the Lonaval they say its no longer their property, and said with our tie up we are charging much less the Market. They said they are charging me 2700 per night. I checked on Net the very next minute and on clear trip i got the rate for the same resort as 2999 per day. So what they are offering is Rs.299 discount.


When we took the membership it was assured that they will not decrease the properties but will increase it. Today the situation is completely opposite.


This is a 100% fraud company.


Vibhav Kelkar
[protected]

Highland Holiday Home Pvt Ltd — Bogus company crooks involved.

at the beginning of membership they claimed all rosy pictures of company and also claimed they are associated with Bajaj Group of Comapny. with this i took membership and thought will be good by the name of Bajaj. When the time came for booking or reservation they always had unavailable for the reservation. they claim for the half of the reservation like if you want to book for two rooms they say only one room is available. that means the have tie up with hotel and resort for a huge scam to loot people. The company is bogus and i claim Chairman and directors are crooks. whn i asked about my reservation they say we are not saying no to customer but only one room is available. ! if one room is available then how dose it serve the purpose when i want to reserve two rooms. All thse people are crooks and fradulents. Hang them to a nail for their deeds as they are sucking blood of people by deception.

it is fraud company.thats all

Bajaj Highland Holiday Homes Pvt limited — Fraudulent business - will cheat you in thousands/lakhs of rupees

First off they are not in any way related to the Bajaj auto/electrical as you would believe. This business is led by a fraud group who uses young girls as their "staff" into luring people who are looking for travel and stay arrangement packages on an annual basis. Their prize catch is usually a retired couple looking for yearly vacations across India or working couples who are too busy to contact travel agenst for each vacation.

Here's their modus-operandi: You will get a call or a message inviting you to a venue where you have won some prize (gift vouchers) after answering 3 simple questions on the phone. Pleased with yourself because you are smarter than an average "paanchvi paas", you reach the venue and the gift voucher is not even mentioned till you sit through the whole "trap" of an event and are somehow talked into buying one of their holiday membership packages. The price of a "lifetime" package is somewhere around 2 lakhs (as of today) and they will try their best to put you into this trap. If 2 lakhs seems too much to you they will then offer you "smaller" packages to the tune of 1 lakh, 50000 or 30000. Oh, by the way all the schemes are "special offers" valid only for that day and you have to pay on the same day to avail of the special offer (that statement should give you a clue to Run away as soon as possible). You only have to search the internet to find out how many people have fallen prey to these thugs and found out that their hotel-booking and travel-booking agents will actually charge you more than what it will cost to directly book through the individual hotels/vehicles. So they will charge you Rs.30,000 for a 5 year membership which is supposed to give you discounts for your vacations, but instead you will end up paying more than the usual prices for all your vacations in the next 5 years. They also promise you part-refund in case you don't go for a vacation a particular year, but believe me - once you paid them any amount of money, say final bye-bye to that money ..rest assured you will never see it back again....ever.

Their staff is mostly of young girls who know nothing about the business and are helpless, probably paid less than 3000 a month. Low paid staff increases "profit-margins" further (sorry for using the respectful term "profit" for a business that is outright looting unsuspecting people). I applaud the masterminds behind Bajaj Highland business for their execution of the whole con and the sheer size of each of their plunders (I feel sorry for the people who paid for their lifetime membership plan by paying in lakhs of rupees).

Although I was fortunate in that I only paid them 1000 down-payment and issued a check of Rs.29,000 (which I immediately cancelled after reading multitude of complaints against them on several forums on the internet), I think these thugs should be arrested immediately and the money of all the people and retired couples that they have plundered over the years returned to their rightful owners. Losing 50000 of your hard earned money will make you very very restless and angry. I hope my complaint here causes some action against these smart fraudsters by the consumer courts in India and at least prevents more people losing a big chunk of their hard earned money to these theives.

Hi,

We are also BIGGEST victims of this fraud that has duped me for 25K inApril' 2010. We have also gone through same process like asking three questions then declaring as winner and asked us to visit their office along with my wife and explained about their packages for 1 hour by some trained MBA students. Then we took the membership for 5 years and they have asked us to pay through credit cards then convert the same amount into EMIs we will refund the interest charged by the bank .

We did the same and produced the Credit card statements after converting the so called amount to EMIs to this fraud company. Then the really story get begun. They started arguing that they would refund only 7% of the total amount. I had to fight, abuse and threaten for amost a month month and
finally after that I received the Cheque.

The Sales rep also informed me that in case I want to go out on a holiday and if I call in for a booking 15 days before my journey date I shall get a confirmed booking, which is not at all true. I had to travel to Lonavala and Mahabaleshwar on 28th may and 1st june respectively, I called them and asked to do the bookings for the same. The reply i received was all the bookings are full.

The sales rep told me that over and above the membership charges I had to pay some utitity charges to which I asked her "What if I do not use the utilities? Will I still have to pay the charges?" she said no... Later When I tried booking the resort I was informed that thos were manditory charges. So I asked what are the Utility charges... she informed me that for Domestic its Rs 500 per day for 4 persons in thier own resorts and Rs. 650 in affiliated resorts... again this proved to be false information as the lonavala resort which is their own... I was informed that I had to pay Rs 1000 as utilty charges per day and in Mahabaleshwar I had o pay Rs 3000 per day.Hence I did not utlise their services.

This is the first company I have seen where the Head office does not have any information about their branch offices but the branch offices have all the information about all the other branch offices... And is the also great to hear that Highland Holiday Homes was barred from doing any business by Sebi for 5 years beacuase of a fraud.

Heres the link to that :-- http://www.sebi.gov.in/satorders/Highland.html

I am trying to cancel the membership but as per their dirty terms & conditions it’s not been cancelled. Guys why dont we come together and file a case againt Highland Holidays in the Consumer court.

Regards,
Jayesh Rathod
+91- [protected]

Hi,

We are also BIGGEST victims of this fraud that has duped me for 25K inApril' 2010. We have also gone through same process like asking three questions then declaring as winner and asked us to visit their office along with my wife and explained about their packages for 1 hour by some trained MBA students. Then we took the membership for 5 years and they have asked us to pay through credit cards then convert the same amount into EMIs we will refund the interest charged by the bank .

We did the same and produced the Credit card statements after converting the so called amount to EMIs to this fraud company. Then the really story get begun. They started arguing that they would refund only 7% of the total amount. I had to fight, abuse and threaten for amost a month month and
finally after that I received the Cheque.

The Sales rep also informed me that in case I want to go out on a holiday and if I call in for a booking 15 days before my journey date I shall get a confirmed booking, which is not at all true. I had to travel to Lonavala and Mahabaleshwar on 28th may and 1st june respectively, I called them and asked to do the bookings for the same. The reply i received was all the bookings are full.

The sales rep told me that over and above the membership charges I had to pay some utitity charges to which I asked her "What if I do not use the utilities? Will I still have to pay the charges?" she said no... Later When I tried booking the resort I was informed that thos were manditory charges. So I asked what are the Utility charges... she informed me that for Domestic its Rs 500 per day for 4 persons in thier own resorts and Rs. 650 in affiliated resorts... again this proved to be false information as the lonavala resort which is their own... I was informed that I had to pay Rs 1000 as utilty charges per day and in Mahabaleshwar I had o pay Rs 3000 per day.Hence I did not utlise their services.

This is the first company I have seen where the Head office does not have any information about their branch offices but the branch offices have all the information about all the other branch offices... And is the also great to hear that Highland Holiday Homes was barred from doing any business by Sebi for 5 years beacuase of a fraud.

Heres the link to that :-- http://www.sebi.gov.in/satorders/Highland.html

I am trying to cancel the membership but as per their dirty terms & conditions it’s not been cancelled. Guys why dont we come together and file a case againt Highland Holidays in the Consumer court.

Regards,
Jayesh Rathod
+91- [protected]

We are also victims of the same. We have already paid Rs 80, 000 for 15 years through credit card and paying 9000/ month to hdfc bank for repayment.
please help us to get our money back. We have not utilized it because of their high charges whenever we try to book.

Madhu
[protected]

HI,
I too have been cheated.They have done the exact same thing to me.
I had a horrible time when i went to Kashmir.
These guys should be sued.

Highland Holiday Homes — Highland Holiday homes

I am also a victim of highland holiday resorts. There are many threads on which we have heard about all teh false promises. I came to know of one more- they told me and I am sure to all of you, that if you give in writing that you want to rent your holidays then you can do after a year and HHH will pay you market rent (around 2000 Rs. each day). However, this is also untrue.
I think we should get together and seek relief. I think we can file cases in consumer courts locally (there may be jurisdiction issues). So people from a city can together and file the case, share expenses and take turns for hearing. It is very important to unite and expose them. People from Mumbai may write to me at [protected]@hotmail.com.

Hi,

We are also BIGGEST victims of this fraud that has duped me for 25K inApril' 2010. We have also gone through same process like asking three questions then declaring as winner and asked us to visit their office along with my wife and explained about their packages for 1 hour by some trained MBA students. Then we took the membership for 5 years and they have asked us to pay through credit cards then convert the same amount into EMIs we will refund the interest charged by the bank .

We did the same and produced the Credit card statements after converting the so called amount to EMIs to this fraud company. Then the really story get begun. They started arguing that they would refund only 7% of the total amount. I had to fight, abuse and threaten for amost a month month and
finally after that I received the Cheque.

The Sales rep also informed me that in case I want to go out on a holiday and if I call in for a booking 15 days before my journey date I shall get a confirmed booking, which is not at all true. I had to travel to Lonavala and Mahabaleshwar on 28th may and 1st june respectively, I called them and asked to do the bookings for the same. The reply i received was all the bookings are full.

The sales rep told me that over and above the membership charges I had to pay some utitity charges to which I asked her "What if I do not use the utilities? Will I still have to pay the charges?" she said no... Later When I tried booking the resort I was informed that thos were manditory charges. So I asked what are the Utility charges... she informed me that for Domestic its Rs 500 per day for 4 persons in thier own resorts and Rs. 650 in affiliated resorts... again this proved to be false information as the lonavala resort which is their own... I was informed that I had to pay Rs 1000 as utilty charges per day and in Mahabaleshwar I had o pay Rs 3000 per day.Hence I did not utlise their services.

This is the first company I have seen where the Head office does not have any information about their branch offices but the branch offices have all the information about all the other branch offices... And is the also great to hear that Highland Holiday Homes was barred from doing any business by Sebi for 5 years beacuase of a fraud.

Heres the link to that :-- http://www.sebi.gov.in/satorders/Highland.html

I am trying to cancel the membership but as per their dirty terms & conditions it’s not been cancelled. Guys why dont we come together and file a case againt Highland Holidays in the Consumer court.

Regards,
Jayesh Rathod
+91- [protected]

I wish to pool in all the victims from pune city alone. if you are from pune, post your complaint along with contact number on [protected]@gmail.com. We can collectively take step towards refund for the same. thanks.

if you are in Pune and would like to pool in for a joint complaint against highland holiday pl. mail your details along with mobile no/email contact details to [protected]@gmail.com immediately.

facing similar problem.

Hi,

We are also BIGGEST victims of this fraud that has duped me for 25K inApril' 2010. We have also gone through same process like asking three questions then declaring as winner and asked us to visit their office along with my wife and explained about their packages for 1 hour by some trained MBA students. Then we took the membership for 5 years and they have asked us to pay through credit cards then convert the same amount into EMIs we will refund the interest charged by the bank .

We did the same and produced the Credit card statements after converting the so called amount to EMIs to this fraud company. Then the really story get begun. They started arguing that they would refund only 7% of the total amount. I had to fight, abuse and threaten for amost a month month and
finally after that I received the Cheque.

The Sales rep also informed me that in case I want to go out on a holiday and if I call in for a booking 15 days before my journey date I shall get a confirmed booking, which is not at all true. I had to travel to Lonavala and Mahabaleshwar on 28th may and 1st june respectively, I called them and asked to do the bookings for the same. The reply i received was all the bookings are full.

The sales rep told me that over and above the membership charges I had to pay some utitity charges to which I asked her "What if I do not use the utilities? Will I still have to pay the charges?" she said no... Later When I tried booking the resort I was informed that thos were manditory charges. So I asked what are the Utility charges... she informed me that for Domestic its Rs 500 per day for 4 persons in thier own resorts and Rs. 650 in affiliated resorts... again this proved to be false information as the lonavala resort which is their own... I was informed that I had to pay Rs 1000 as utilty charges per day and in Mahabaleshwar I had o pay Rs 3000 per day.Hence I did not utlise their services.

This is the first company I have seen where the Head office does not have any information about their branch offices but the branch offices have all the information about all the other branch offices... And is the also great to hear that Highland Holiday Homes was barred from doing any business by Sebi for 5 years beacuase of a fraud.

Heres the link to that :-- http://www.sebi.gov.in/satorders/Highland.html

I am trying to cancel the membership but as per their dirty terms & conditions it’s not been cancelled. Guys why dont we come together and file a case againt Highland Holidays in the Consumer court.

Regards,
Jayesh Rathod
+91- [protected]

HIGHLAND HOLIDAYS HOMES PVT LTD — CHEATING AND FALSE PROMISES

I HAD GAVE COMPLAIN ON UR SITE ABOUT CHEATING FROM HIGHLAND HOLLIDAYS HOMES PVT LTD. SUCH A BIGGEST FRAUD COMPANY IN INDIA.WHO GAVE US FALSE PROMISE AND CHEATED US FOR 35000/- WHICH NOT A LESS AMOUNT FOR US.
PLS HELP ME. I HAVE GIVEN MINIMUM 3 COMPLAINS AGAINST THIS FRAUD COMPANY ON CONSUMER FORUM.