Contact 6 uses hidden camera to expose "Vacation Club" deals

LAKE GENEVA/WEST ALLIS (WITI) -- Wisconsin winters have a way making us long for better, brighter days. That's what Joshua Hall was hoping for when he found out his girlfriend had randomly been chosen for a pretty nice prize!

" won a three day two night vacation. You just need to come and claim your prize," Hall said.

Josh and his girlfriend were pitched a vacation club membership from the Synergy Vacation Club in Lake Geneva.  The cost originally given to them was close to $9,000 and access to what they called members-only deals, but Josh knew how to play along.

"Their game is they start high, knowing that people will come down lower," Hall explains.

He was right.  The more Josh said "no," the more the price dropped.  It eventually ended up just under $4,000, so they bought it, but soon found thousands of dollars in hidden resort fees.

"Might be a good product.  Not for us. We just wanted to walk away," Hall said.

Hall walked away, but FOX6's Contact 6 producer and his fiancée walked into another vacation club in West Allis called Resort Connections, LLC.  They had the Contact 6 hidden camera with them.

"We're like the Sam's Club of the travel industry," the presenter said in front of a screen showing one beach scene after another.  "We buy in bulk and you get better deals."

He showed some good deals, but two things he said didn't sound right.

"This hotel is called the Luxor, it's in downtown London. Last time I checked, it was going for $683 per day," the presenter said.

Back at the newsroom, FOX6's Contact 6 producer checked on any hotel in or near London, England  called "The Luxor."  It couldn't be found, and two major travel agencies couldn't find it, either.

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