I run a an entertainment marketing firm that includes an incentive travel/contest division catering to sponsors wanting promotions/contests that revolve around entertainment. U know the contests; you hear the trip giveaways on TV, radio and see them in magazines or on web sites - Win A Trip to ... We send lucky winners to Concerts with backstage passes/Meet & Greet, Award Shows, major Sporting events, do TV walk-ons, win home entertainment systems etc. etc.

After 20 years, you can well imagine that it gets difficult coming up with fresh contests/ideas. We regularly hold focus groups to get ideas but this round, the staff here suggested taking the question to all you peeps at P.ORG.

So, we ask U...what would your 'Ultimate' Trip or Contest Prize be? We'll review all your suggestions and the ones we feel are the most spectacular, we'll reward you with something...probably Prince related.

BTW, we know that a great percentage of you will want to suggest something involving Prince. Try and stay away from this - give us something different.

Your participation would be much appreciated. So c'mon tell us what your 'ultimate' prize will be.

Red

That is easy...

Win a trip to... Machu Pichu!

Easy peasy lemmon squeezy. An all expenses paid shopping trip to Tokyo.Now that would be my dream prize.

Much love Pochacco

I'd have to say 1million dollars would be a nice prize.
But if you say take a trip or vacation.
The Ultimate would be a Free Trip to the European Countries...(France/Italy/England/Germany/)

No bills for a year...A trip to a gravity free enviroment(space)...A car full of dollar bills...The head of Osama served with an order of fries...Unlimited candy for life(meet Willy Wonka would be nice)...No more war(joking)

Doesn't have to be a trip, although a great % of the contests are... but definitely not CASH.

Off the top of my head, i rarely see any trips to Nantucket, Massachusetts. Granted it gets cooler in late September than say Mexico or Hawaii--but it is a beautiful island and quite different than your average hot weather getaway.
There are no corporate hotels or bland architecture. The local statutes are very strict about the homes built and restrict them to one kind of siding which give the 3-5 mile island a very Colonial feel.
I'd recommend sending people there in the mid-summer when the water is peak warm and the nude beaches are full.(i'll be there next summer visiting my brother and his wife)

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Another beautiful area is the coast of Maine. Imagine the postcards with the lighthouse, rocky beach, great seafood restaurants, and miles of open space. That's exactly what Maine is like, no illusions.
I recommend Olgonquin, ME- the French Canadian "Florida"-as many Quebecua make this their Summer vacation. (The beach sand somehow lights up at night while you're walking, some kind of fluorescent stone or quartz-no lie).
Again, you won't find any gory Marriott or Radisson, almost all the hotels and motels are locally owned and run. Very 'Mom & Pop' feel to it. The water's colder but the area and people make up for it.

Cold water diving in Canada...

As many fish to see as in the tropics, just a different environment...

(i saw it on the travel network)

and...if you choose a country/city...tell us why.
Example: LA - to a private party at the Playboy Mansion.

See the world! CHANGE the world! Get an all expenses-paid trip to the Middle East to see religious and historical locales. Register for the US Army and all this can be yours, for free!


but seriously... I'll come up with something.

oh, and believe Red when she says they'll reward you. Red has the hookup! trust me she's one awesome orger
[This message was edited Wed Sep 25 11:30:52 PDT 2002 by AaronForever]

Live one year Tax free, on everything!

Red said:

Ultimate contest prize?

Easy. The "Cuss Jar" at Paisley after P. gets finished reading the comments about the NPGMC here on the Org.

That's baby's gotta be overflowing.

Trip to Las Vegas. See a concert. Stay in a casino for a week. Give them $1000-5000 to gamble with.

Moderator for a day on the Org. This way I could delete all of Aaron's acounts.

heh heh

yeah mom, thats what i'm talking about..

how about Nelly tixx - like an all expense paid thing..

a free transplant - hey people need that

free membership to Jenny Craig/ Weight Watchers
w/ a gym membership of their choice (6 months)

free Krispy Kremes (thats for U DavidEye)

i wanna get to Jamaica w/ Tupac...

what else???

Win a free Bo-Tox treatment!

Hey, hey for us older folks..

2the9s said:

i only have 1 account

ScarLett said:

well i hope he shares

A tour of all the Nazi concentration camps in Europe. Most of all, Auschwitz-Birkenau.

and you would want to win that trip for pleasure because?

battier thats kinda scary...

thats a pilgrimge trek not something to be taken lightly if this was an educational prize then sure, but ugh...mom help here

ScarLett said:

How's it scary because you want to see it? I'm highly fascinated with the Holocaust, and it would be educational.

The damn thing asked for my ultimate trip. It doesn't involve a Prince. They're something I'd really like to see. Not to mention, while on a trip touring, you'd find things on the way. You'd be in Germany to see Dachau, and experience the German culture. You'd travel to Poland...

A close second, I'd like to see the Valley of the Kings.
[This message was edited Wed Sep 25 12:52:14 PDT 2002 by BattierBeMyDaddy]

Well I thought about this one a long time.
Thanks for asking...BECAUSE
I just went into this beautiful fantasy...
won an amazing fantasy/prize
trip with back stage passes and everything.
My favorite entertainer invited me to ride to the
after/party in his limo...party was at his hotel.
He sang my favorite song to me personally...
Thanks again for asking...I had a wonderful time..
and I did not even have to leave the PC.

(gotta get this powerful imagination worked on
before it gets me into trouble)

I recently heard on the radio that a magazine was offering cryogenic freezing as a prize. I didn't catch the whole piece, so I'm a bit sketchy on the details.
I assume the freezing would take place after death, otherwise it would limit the appeal somewhat.

Are we getting paid for this?

An all expense paid trip to the South by Southwest Music conference. (In Austin? Suddenly I can't remember where in Texas...)
Camping Gear (tent, backpack, & rain poncho at least) and a trip to the Glastonbury music Festival in England.
A trip to the Sundance Film Festival... Or even Cannes for that matter.

Hmmm... I'm on a festival thing today.

Round the World Air Ticket for me and a friend, stopping at 6 destinations of my choice. Staying in the best hotels, with a chauffered limousine on hand and enough spending money to live lavishly during my vacation. Money to pay my bills back home for a month or two while I indulge in my new lifestyle. All first class, of course.

I'd call it "Around the world in a month"

Alternatively, I'd quite like:

- a trip in the space shuttle
- to be able to throw a party on my birthday for my friends in a small venue, with bands of my choice performing
- a trip on the QEII in the best cabin they have
- hire of Concorde for the day OR John Travolta's plane (with him as pilot)
- a ride in a MIG
- the opportunity to own a lamborghini
- to direct a music video (preferably a Prince one!)
- to attend the Oscars (and the parties)
- to "be" Chaka Khan
- to work on a reserve in Africa/elephant sanctuary
- to swim with dolphins in the wild
- to see whales, polar bears, wolves etc
- to visit Antartica

Reasons:
- all of these are things I could never afford to do, or couldn't arrange by myself.

Spend a romantic candlelit dinner with a Prince.org forumite of your choice! Er, maybe not.

How about a guided tour to all the places Peter Jackson used for Lord of the Rings ?

*an ecotopia trip -- touring ecosystems that aren't likely to survive much longer
*iceland! hot springs amongst glaciers. . .fabulous
*being a born-and-raised northern girl, I find the idea of a couple of weeks in the deep south pretty interesting. . .maybe a trip down the lower Mississippi?
*free graduate education would be nice. . .
*instrument of your choice and lessons
*choice of 1000 cds
*free pair of shoes every month for life
*home renovation package. . .my bathroom needs to be remodled
*movie screening; get your favorite movie(s) shown on a big screen at a local theater for you and your friends
*get your own full-size wax statue of yourself. . .badass!
*make your own library. . .choice of 10,000 books, and shelving, and one of the little shelf-ladders and rolling stepstool things
*vet insurance policies for your pets
*the get-a-star-named-after-you thing

Yeah, or just freakin' airfare and tickets to the next Celebration, please! Damn, that's all I really want. . .

Doves,
Mel!ssa

AlfofMelmak said:

cool! ... or you know what I'd like? ... a hobbit-hole house! ... I'd love to live in one of those