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Bald Thoughts featured an article from Travel & Leisure in today’s morning shave that caught my eye and I thought it was worth sharing: Days Inn is offering a “Sunternship” job opportunity that essentially sounds like an Instagrammy travel influencer role that will include traveling to the “best Days Inn accommodations from Coast to Coast” for two weeks to document the experiences in photos on social media. Best of all, you can get paid $10,000 to do it. If you’ve got two weeks free this summer, social media savvy, and a sense of adventure, Days Inn might just hire you.
From the description, it looks like they are primarily looking for someone with photography skills to make their properties look extra cool. Those words aren’t quite the description that comes to mind to describe my limited Days Inn experiences, so I think this actually represents a pretty interesting challenge. Ten thousand bucks, paid accommodations, a daily $250 travel stipend, and a recommendation from a hotel executive when you complete the assignment might just make it well worthwhile for someone just looking to get out on the road and build up a photography portfolio. I’d think that getting a chance to shape the brand image of Days Inn, even just for two weeks, might be a fun challenge to take up for an aspiring social media whiz.
To throw your hat in the ring, you need to write a 300-word essay outlining your dream domestic itinerary and why you’re the person they should hire to tell their story. You can find more details here at the Wyndham / Days Inn Sunternship website.
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You wrote: “getting a chance to shape the brand image of Days Inn, even just for two weeks, might be a fun challenge to take up for an aspiring social media whiz.”
Translated, you learn the ‘merikin way, learn how to LIE.
Concur with Danin below, I’ve had far too many horrific experiences with deteriorating Days Inn locations recently. (the good memories are now fading fast) Wyndham really needs to clean up its act, and dump the dying spots. Absolute worst Days Inn (top of my list) would be at Kill Devil Hills, (Outer Banks) North Carolina…. the MARINER location. Place should be shut down asap. Put my family up there for a week, and their first night was sleepless as they huddled in terror, waiting for dawn to check out. (It’s THAT bad, crumbling, filthy facilities, no security…. being used for…. well, nefarious purposes….)
Trivial note (given how horrendous the place was), discovered that Wyndham’s supposed policy for Diamond members to get suite upgrades isn’t well known by properties…. and even when you get a Diamond concierge rep. to call them, then the available suites “magically” (think that stupid blue leprechaun)…. disappeared. (they flat out lied, the place was largely empty)
Even worse, for fellow Diamonds, the fine print on the upgrade policy apparently permits hotels to grant you an upgrade to a suite when you check in (if available), but …. (and this is the stunningly bad part), if said suite (the one you’re already in) becomes unavailable, they CAN downgrade you in the middle of your stay….
Several thoughts come to mind. 1. What are the worst Days Inns? 2. Do you have to get all the construction work crews staying at the hotels to sign a photography release or will they do that for you? and 3. Do you get free breakfast and room upgrades during this event with your elite status 🙂 On the other hand, they give you $250 a day so you could just book a nice hotel down the road and simply drop in to take photos at the Days Inns.
Days Inn is calling you Nick. No, seriously.
I’m curious which properties are considered the “best Days Inn” hotels in the United States…
The ones with the highest profit margins haha
The one in Laramie, WY is pretty good.
“Days Inn offering $10K to stay at the best Days Inn”
Not sure I’d accept that offer 😉
I’d apply if someone was willing to watch my kids for me for two weeks. HAHA
Same!