Lady Bug's Adventure: October 2009

October 2, 2009 - for our next adventure we are on our way to the GoGo Learning conference being held in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. I am so excite that they are letter me tag along…. usually when the two of them travel I am left back in the office since they like that alone time… but this IS a work trip so I get to go too. We are also accompanied by Meloney and Andre’ Kelly, agents of The Travel Planner.

We left Nashville this morning at 6:15AM… now that is early, changed planes in Miami (where our flight was late departing) and arrived in Punta at 2:20pm.

We were greeted by the GoGo staff, they were great. We were quickly escorted to air conditioned buses and on our way to our host hotel, the Moon Palace. Upon arrival there was a nice reception with drinks and yummy food. (which was very much appreciated)

Once registered, we checked out our beautiful room

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and then we were free to explore the property.

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At 7:30pm we all met in the lobby and boarded the buses for dinner, our host for the evening was Dreams. The greeted us in style…

Because of rain, we were unable to enjoy the beautiful beach dinner they had planned. The staff did an excellent job at moving the dinner into the conference center… in a mere 20 minutes.

The room looked wonderful, they had a good band and the food was FABULOUS! Our started was huge shrimp cocktails, followed by a avocado and mango salad, and our main course was surf and turf. The wait staff was even dressed in scuba outfits.

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Whew….LONG day, didn’t get back to our hotel until 12:35am. NIGHTY NIGHT

October 3, 2009 - Up early to get to breakfast seminar at 7:30a, sponsored by

Our general sessions was very interesting hearing about all the new and upcoming changes with GoGo.

We boarded the buses for lunch at Excellence. First we did a site inspection of the property, really beautiful…

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And those suites…

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We toured two more resorts, the Majestic Elegance and the Riu Punta Cana.

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Our bus was scheduled to arrive back at our host hotel at 6p, but with the due diligence of our group and our fearless leader, Jacqueline, (whom I became good friends with)

we arrived back at the hotel at 5p… giving us an additional hour to rest and relax before dinner. Kevin and Penney, of course checked email and returned some phone calls (they are work –a – holics) but not me… I headed to the beach for some sun and sand!

Meeting at 7:30 in the lobby, we were off to dinner at Paradisus Palma Real. They had a cocktail reception for us, with entertainment.

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and then we headed to the beach for dinner. We met some great agents to sit with, had a wonderful dinner and conversation.

October 4, 2009 – Today is another early morning, I decided I needed some pool time so Penney & Kevin attended breakfast and general assembly. They said that the GoGo staff shared with them information and updates regarding their website an how to link to facebook. They also learned more marketing tools available.

Next, they were separated into groups and attended product classes, which I was interested in so I joined the rest… the presentations I attended were updates on the Caribbean, USA & Canada, Mexico and Hawaii & Tahiti, Kevin & Penney tagged along too.

Sandals sponsored our Lunch and then we attended the tradeshow with many of the hoteliers from the DR and Mexico. I met some really great people, from Atlantis in the Bahamas