Flipping Rich

derrikd 6 April 2008 marketing, travel 123 views 2 Comments

I have decided to go back through some of our travel posts and add a note to the bottom of each post. The additional will be called “Desire to return”, with a yes, no, and a qualifier (probably).

Sunny and I just spent the last weekend in Palm Beach Florida at the Ritz-Carlton. The trip was an incentive reward for Ameriprise employees that had reached certain levels of sales and/or volume for Riversource products. Sunny has continued to be one of the highest producers as a Regional Sales Director, Asset Management (more commonly called a mutual fund wholesaler). In any event the trip was a reward which the company considers to be a top notch reward program where among VP’s and Senior VP’s, CEO and CIO of the company were present to recognize the high producers.

The Ritz-Carlton in Palm Beach is a beautiful hotel. The staff, for the most part, were incredibly hospital, as it should be with the hotel rates. However the facility is really isolated. There is not much around. With the developments nearby I would guess the 10-20 years ago the property had no neighbors at all, a rather strange location to stick a high end hotel.

Apparently the more central place to be is West Palm Beach.

Desire to return: None. There are much more festive place in Florida. Unless you like staying at a beautiful hotel with little resources surrounded by 55+ condo buildings, the Ritz-Carlton is a dud too.