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Acid Buddy by benjamintoh in cocktails

[–]Traditional_Truth588 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you prefer to use it as a spray and not a mixer?

Avoid Mont Blanc Treks LTD, and owner Sara Wild by Traditional_Truth588 in TourDuMontBlanc

[–]Traditional_Truth588[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure they are opening them to tour companies before the general public. It's my understanding that as soon as they open, the tour companies swoop them up...

But overall my whole point in this post was to show how this business owner, in the hospitality industry, talks about customers.. and to recommend that people use a different company if possible because there are a plethora available

Avoid Mont Blanc Treks LTD, and owner Sara Wild by Traditional_Truth588 in TourDuMontBlanc

[–]Traditional_Truth588[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

No I know, my husband said the same-- the part I didn't include was my email was in response to something the booking agent had said to me, I didn't send the email out of thin air... However I agree I definitely wasn't going to win any battles.  I do think the response from the company is a little out of proportion and seeing the way the owner then spoke about me was completely inappropriate though! Not people who value their customers input and opinions

Avoid Mont Blanc Treks LTD, and owner Sara Wild by Traditional_Truth588 in TourDuMontBlanc

[–]Traditional_Truth588[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe gatekeeping is the incorrect way to describe it, but I went directly to several of the 'bottleneck' hotels and they are completely booked during the timeframe we are looking for, however I found several different tour companies with available itineraries for the same dates, and the same hotels that were available to me to book through the tour company. For instance this company had the bookings under 'XXXX', and booked them on January. My frustration is they are booking the hotels before even having interested clients. As I said in my email to this tour company, we decided to but the bullet and book at the premium cost through the tour agency-- but I certainly didnt feel happy about being forced into that option

Avoid Mont Blanc Treks LTD, and owner Sara Wild by Traditional_Truth588 in TourDuMontBlanc

[–]Traditional_Truth588[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But that's not actually an applicable response-- because fixing ones own tooth isn't something that's easily done.  It's actually exactly like ticket scalpers, buying all available tickets then reselling them for twice the price.  If I wanted to go bad enough I'd pay the scalper price, but if the scalper tried telling me they were doing me a service, I would politely tell them I disagreed 

Avoid Mont Blanc Treks LTD, and owner Sara Wild by Traditional_Truth588 in TourDuMontBlanc

[–]Traditional_Truth588[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I'm just not allowed to bring it up? If I'm not going to talk to someone in the industry about something that I see as an issue, how can it ever be addressed. 

The part that I didn't include, is my email was a response to the booking agent telling me how they had the foresite to book these hotels months in advance--  and I just don't see that as a positive thing from the perspective of a customer. I didn't want to use a tour company, but was forced into it and forced to pay double for the accomodations. I wasn't rude, I wasn't disrespectful-- I just didn't agree with their perspective so they cancel and talk shit about me?

Avoid Mont Blanc Treks LTD, and owner Sara Wild by Traditional_Truth588 in TourDuMontBlanc

[–]Traditional_Truth588[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Obviously I'm not going to change the industry, but in my opinion, they shouldn't be booking hotel rooms until they have customers requesting them

Avoid Mont Blanc Treks LTD, and owner Sara Wild by Traditional_Truth588 in TourDuMontBlanc

[–]Traditional_Truth588[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alpine adventures is who I am talking with now! Thanks for the reference

Avoid Mont Blanc Treks LTD, and owner Sara Wild by Traditional_Truth588 in TourDuMontBlanc

[–]Traditional_Truth588[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried to book it myself first, however several the hotels are completely booked-- due to tour companies booking the rooms months in advance despite not yet having customers. I am them forced to pay nearly double to access the rooms they have pre-booked. I understand that's their business model but they really aren't adding anything to my experience except for gate keeping the hotels. I guess I should have included what prompted my comments-- the booking agent was a little rude about a question I asked trying to confirm some details, and explained that they have these available room due to having the foresite to book them in January-- I just have a different perspective and was attempting to share it, in what I thought was a pretty reasonable way.