France

Bonjour, tout le monde!

Je voudrais savoir s'il y a des membres qui travaillent avec un hotel ou faissent les relations publiques avec un agence avec plusieurs clients qui sont hotels et restaurants?

Here's the scoop en Anglais.

I will be traveling to Bordeaux from the 3-8 of September for Intermezzo and a couple of my beverage industry trades. I would like to look into extending my stay a few days beyond the press trip in Paris as I think I can get some interesting material. While I may be hosted by the Mandarin Oriental a couple of days after Bordeaux (9/8 and 9/9, I would like to find out if there are other hotels who can extend complimentary rooms on assignment (I can provide the letters of assignment). If it turns out to be a short stay, and hotels can't offer comped rooms, I am still interested in reviewing a couple of hotel or independent restaurants with very inventive sommeliers and interesting wine from the Bordeaux region, so it will tie in with the main features I am doing that focus on Bordeaux's wine and influences on other regions of France.

Let me know your thoughts. If I secure extra days in Paris, I will inform the people booking flights to France from L.A.

All the best,

Elyse

An ongoing adventure of travel and living while using a wheelchair. Tim has been disabled from birth. Darryl is his father and caregiver who travel…

Comments

Ed Wetschler July 25, 2013 at 8:00pm

Sounds pretty awful, Elyse -- the time you put in, the disappointment, the embarrassment. Still, I'd contact them again, if only because you have nothing to lose. With your antennae up this time, you'll know if you're going to get assistance or not.
Elyse Jessica Glickman July 25, 2013 at 7:22pm

Ed,

They were not very nice to me a few years ago. They invited me on a FAM, had me get letters of assignment and two hours later when I provided them, the THREE trips were filled up, so I wasted my time and looked foolish and then had to explain to my editors that i was not really invited.
Ed Wetschler July 25, 2013 at 7:15pm

Elyse, have you approached the folks at the French Tourism office here in NYC?
Elyse Jessica Glickman July 25, 2013 at 6:44pm

Bonjour, tout le monde!

Je voudrais savoir s'il y a des membres qui travaillent avec un hotel ou faissent les relations publiques avec un agence avec plusieurs clients qui sont hotels et restaurants?

Here's the scoop en Anglais.

I will be traveling to Bordeaux from the 3-8 of September for Intermezzo and a couple of my beverage industry trades. I would like to look into extending my stay a few days beyond the press trip in Paris as I think I can get some interesting material. While I may be hosted by the Mandarin Oriental a couple of days after Bordeaux (9/8 and 9/9, I would like to find out if there are other hotels who can extend complimentary rooms on assignment (I can provide the letters of assignment). If it turns out to be a short stay, and hotels can't offer comped rooms, I am still interested in reviewing a couple of hotel or independent restaurants with very inventive sommeliers and interesting wine from the Bordeaux region, so it will tie in with the main features I am doing that focus on Bordeaux's wine and influences on other regions of France.

Let me know your thoughts. If I secure extra days in Paris, I will inform the people booking flights to France from L.A.

All the best,

Elyse
Darryl Musick March 25, 2013 at 5:28pm

We're celebrating Atlantic destinations and crossings at The World on Wheels starting with an old London trip infused with newly discovered pictures. Come along as we take the Eurostar for a day out to Paris: http://tinyurl.com/cwmzbwo

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