Conde Nast Surveys OR Loose Lips Sink YOUR Ship

Until recently, I had been a Conde Nast Traveler subscriber for several
years. One year, I received one of their surveys, asking me to rate top
hotels all over the world. Well, I hadn't been to many.
However, when I looked at the Costa Rica section, I was asked to rate 3
hotels in San Jose. First, there are no five-star properties in San
Jose. However, one of those listed was a rundown hotel known (and
publicized in guidebooks) as a hangout for tutes (legal in CR).
How they whittled down the choices to inlcude that one, I'll never
know. I imagine guys who checked that choice might have given away some
information that they wouldn't like to be known.
I sent the magazine an e-mail, thinking how'd embarrassed they'd be if
the hotel turned up on their gold list. No reply.

In article <4278E131.6F4204E1@dcnet2000.com>,
Jeremy <jeremy@dcnet2000.com> wrote:

> Lloyd Parsons wrote:
> >
> > I
> > I found the cure for all of that mess. I use an Apple Mac! ;-)
> >
> > No viruses, no trojans, no malware of any sort. The email client
> > handles the junk very well.
> >
> > If I were looking to buy a computer, or recommend one to a home user
> > that didn't have needs not met with the mac, I would heartily recommend
> > the macmini to them.
>
> I have a Mac also, but I am still struggling to learn my way around it.
> Niggly things like finding the backspace and working out how to use
> airport properly. BTW, I need a password generator for cruising :-)
>
> JJ

I don't claim to be an expert, but email me with your problems and I can
probably either directly answer them, or point you to a good source.

Lloyd

Karen wrote about Conde Nast

<<The place was a dump, literally. ...I cancelled my subscription when
I got back home. I've never trusted
anything a paid travel writer has written since that time. >>

Trust of any travel magazine is a hard thing to earn. But whether a
travel writer is paid or not has nothing to do with it. The point is
that it is the UNpaid travel writers who are most likely to burn you
because their "pay" came in the form of a free trip. As a result the
New York Times will never accept an article from an unpaid travel
writer, in fact they will not use travel writer's at all, they use
their other writers (sports or whatever) who are on staff and who go on
vacation to cover a travel topic.

But my experience is that paid or unpaid doesn't matter, it is the
character and agenda of the writer that matters.

In article <1115393560.788195.118680@o13g2000cwo. .com>,
cruisemates <editor@cruisemates.com> wrote:

>
> Trust of any travel magazine is a hard thing to earn. But whether a
> travel writer is paid or not has nothing to do with it. The point is
> that it is the UNpaid travel writers who are most likely to burn you
> because their "pay" came in the form of a free trip. As a result the
> New York Times will never accept an article from an unpaid travel
> writer, in fact they will not use travel writer's at all, they use
> their other writers (sports or whatever) who are on staff and who go on
> vacation to cover a travel topic.

The New York Times writers are paid by the New York Times. Big
difference from travel magazines and travel web sites where the writer
is paid by the hotel, resort or cruise line they are writing about. Who
pays at Conde Nast? I don't know but if it is like Cruisemates then I
would not trust their writers. The point is where the pay comes from.
If the pay comes from the company being reviewed, either by cash or
free stay at the hotel, resort, or free cruise then the charecter and
agenda of the writer is unclean.

--
Charles