Good morning everyone, I hope you all had a great weekend. A few months ago, I wrote 2 Centurion Lounge Meetups: SFO @ 12pm and LAS @ 6pm (Saturday, November 7). In that post, I announced that I would be holding 2 meetups at 2 different Centurion Lounges on the same day. Some of you thought it was a great ideas, while others of you thought it was a crazy idea. I actually agree with both parties. A few weeks after writing the above blog post, TravelCon Las Vegas was announced and it is being held the exact same day as my meetups. The easy thing would have been to reschedule the meetup for another weekend and go to TravelCon Las Vegas. Unfortunately, I know a few people who booked flights and made hotel reservations in anticipation of the event. I would have felt terrible changing the meetup date and costing people money, so I decided to forgo the TravelCon Las Vegas conference and hold my meetups as originally planned.
A few weeks ago, I received an email from an American Express Public Affairs & Communications representative. To my surprise, she was very excited and enthusiastic about the meetup idea and asked if there was anything she could do to make my meetups more special and memorable. I thanked her for reaching out to me and I asked her if she could reserve a few tables in both lounges and if we could receive a behind-the-scenes tour of the lounges. She responded,
“We look forward to hosting you all. We’ll be sure to hold tables for you at both locations. I am copying in our lounge manager for SFO, (name), who will help set up a space for you all at SFO. (name) is also working with our LAS team to make sure you all have a few tables held as well. Additionally, the team is happy to provide you all a mini tour behind the lounge, per your request.”
