If you want to test your adventurous side, welcome. Here there is only one certainty: it is a journey full of mystery, in which different scales should be made to get a unique experience.
Travelers only have the task surprisingly; need not worry about anything else. An agent takes care of the details in each city.
Imagine you’re in Tokyo, would you buy a tech gadget, you look for a shiatsu massage or visit a karaoke? Or, if you gave a ride aboard the Enterprise, the ship of the Star Trek franchise, where would you like to appear: a spa, Roman ruins or on top of a snowy mountain?
This is the first step to joining the proposed new journey offers American Express Travel, Next edition call: a quirky questionnaire answering 15 questions about your hobbies, culinary tastes, preferences and dislikes to travel and the destinations you already know.
The answers create a user profile based traveler in a horoscope which includes 20 different tourist signs.
After obtaining a sign and register on the portal, you have to speak to an agent to confirm interest, closing dates and budget. A mystery trip costs between $ 3,000 thousand in the United States, and between 2 000 3 000 500 and $ 500 if you want to go to Europe.
The experience for two includes air and ground transportation, lodging, surprise activities and a cell phone to receive notifications and information on the itinerary. The campaign, launched on April 6, is only available to customers with credit card issued in the U.S…
David and Jessica Neiman traveled from Boston to Barcelona to finish Venetian waterway. ”The experience of a tourist is a gondola ride, however, here we learned how to handle it,” says David.
Sharon Chris reports that his itinerary took him through Boston, Montreal and New Orleans. The latter city, he met aboard a sailing boat and aircraft for its canals filled with turtles and crocodiles.
But American Express Travel is not the only company to offer such packages; the Irish agency’s Mystery Trips implemented a couple of years ago.
This method is based in Dublin, but made expeditions throughout Europe. The agency has become famous for the organization of packages according to the profile of the passengers and the purpose of travel.
For this experience must follow five steps: register online, contact to set dates, number of people and price, to approve the reservation to receive the list of necessary luggage and clothing, and attend a meeting hours before departure to meet the or destinations.
The Mystery Trips packages include lodging expenses (on budget), air and ground transportation, meals, tour guides and surprise activities.
Jean Camry of the Irish province of Silo says his surprise trip: “The highlight was a guided tour by bicycle through the streets of Brussels. I received a ticket as an invitation from a friend and will definitely do it again several times.”
The state secretary of Tourism, Juan Carlos Gonzalez Hernandez, and the president of the Cancun Hotel Association, Rodrigo de la Pena Segura, said that the industry without chimneys called last year reached one of his best records.
