JerryG
Do NOT Trust Grand Welcome For Any Rental!!
I would NEVER rent from Grand Welcome ever again!! I booked a condo on Maui Hawaii on July 15, 2024 for one week in March 2025 as a wedding gift for our daughter and her husband’s honeymoon. I booked this condo through VRBO with Grand Welcome being the Management Company. I put a 50% deposited down at the time of the booking which was not cheap!! While traveling in Europe on October 5th, I received an email from Grand Welcome stating “ we do have to inform you of an unforeseen circumstance that requires us to cancel your reservation at this time.” It further stated that “ We have been notified by the owner that the management company has been changed.” and said that the email serves as notice that my reservation for our daughters honeymoon rental is canceled and fully refunded! No calls, no voicemails…nothing more!! I immediately made several calls to Grand Welcome from Europe to inquire why this was cancelled and how to get my deposit monies returned! They said that the refund would be mailed to my home…but they didn’t have my home address!! My home address and all of my personal information was on the rental agreement and confirmation notice that Grand Welcome provided!! Via telephone calls from Europe, I requested that they expedite my refund to all me to place a condo rental deposit with the new Management Company and explained why this was so important to me as it’s a wedding gift for our daughter and her husband! After additional telephone calls to the new Managent Company (who were extremely pleasant, understanding & helpful), I found that Grand Welcome provide no information to this management company regarding rentals booked and that people were showing up onsite in Maui that same day only to find out that their condo rentals were also cancelled!! I have spent the past 11 days since the rental was cancelled trying to get my monies refunded by Grand Welcome!! I have called their customer care number at least 8 times requesting my refund, and they have taken no action as of today to do so…11 days after the cancellation!! The Grand Welcome people onsite have not been able to escalate my request / concerns to their management and accounting to expedite my refund! They have also promised numerous times to follow-up and return my calls and this never occurs!! Grand Welcome is a poorly ran and irresponsible company!! They left me and many others hanging who had confirmed condo rentals without any help to ensure rentals are obtained. Even worse, after cancelling my week rental, nearly two weeks later I still have not gotten my monies refunded, nor has Grand Welcome even been able to confirm that the refund is in progress!! NEVER….NEVER….NEVER would I ever book any rental through Grand Welcome anywhere in the United States or elsewhere!!

