Foreign Perspectives

One of the plus points of the current economic difficulties is that just about everywhere you look companies are really pulling out the stops to attract your custom. Not so good for them but it means some great deals are on offer for you.

OK, so they’d call them great anyway as they always do, wouldn’t they? Well, yes, but this time around some of the promotions on offer seem almost too good to be true.

For instance, a family vacation hotel contest being run by a hotel chain wouldn’t be a big deal by itself. After all, the cynical amongst you would figure that there’s only going to be, at best, a handful of winners so it ain’t worth looking at. However, what if you add in a $50 cash card for staying three separate times with the same hotel? And how about throwing in another contest in the form of the Comfort Inn Demi Lovato contest?

You might think that all that promotional effort is going to need paying for through increased prices for you. In normal times, you’d probably be right but then these aren’t normal times and these really are great deals for you. Although you’ll obviously appreciate the contest prizes if you win, in practice it’s the $50 that’s there for the taking which is the most valuable of the “prizes” as we can all pick that one up whereas obviously there won’t be too many contest winners.

Definitely, this is gonna be a great year to go on vacation!