Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Free for Feedback...

A regular day at work... a window pops up... "Hey , u interested in a 2 day stay at a 5-star? Its free , but u can take only a gal companion ". I thought my friend had gone nuts... I said "ofcourse!!!!" and thats how I got into it...

"It" being auditing a 5 star hotel in hyderabad... My friend referred me to this organization which organises mystery audits of restaurants, hotels, flights. They were looking for 2 girls to audit the exclusive womens suite in a 5 star hotel of hyderabad. Our whole stay would be sponsored. We had to eat in all the restaurants, avail all services , and give our feedback. I was sceptical - Was this for real?????

I brought tanu on board... we started of with a restaurant audit...it was interesting. The depth and detail of the audit was impressive..... and then we got our hands dirty on the real project..

2 days went by in a blur... we, hardly got enough time to revel in our sponsored "holiday"... prepared to play the role of 2 hot-shot exec's on vacation, we brought our best, and were at our polished most! we wined and dined in 4 restaurants, 2 lounges , 1 pub.... checked out the spa , got ourself a massage... invited a lot of our friends over .... and in the spare time, filled in voluminous feedback reports!!!!!

At the end, it was a lot of fun and a lot of hard work..... But an awesome experience.....And a different experience... I just so love doing crazy things, something off-beat, something outside my regular work ... that weekend being my last in hyd proved to be the perfect ending to my 2 yeanr and 4 month stint!!!!!

And do u have to ask??? ofcourse, I intend to do more of them!!!

7 comments:

Tanushree said...

Yeah, baby! We're a rockin' duo!

Meera said...

That was a free treat huh? ensoy maadi :)

Sriram said...

cool... looks like u enjoyed urself well.. Fully Paid 5-star stay.. thats sounds really cool.. so did u do all your audit by the swimming pool sipping some trncdy cocktail or a glass of champgne ??

Sriram said...

i see from your orkut pics about ur trip to the 17 mile drive and lonely cypress tree... thats a beautiful drive isnt it?? A nice golf course and beach by the side.. Some pretty posh villas .. Wish I could get one of those houses by the beach side. Someone even mentioned something about celebraties owning some houses there... But I really enjoyed the drive myself when i had been there...

Kaushik said...

some ppl have all the luck !

Insanity, thy name.

- K.

Ms.N said...

@ sriram.... well not by the pool.... :( too busy treating people on tht weekend cos i was leaving hyd!

and yea ... the drive was beautiful! and the drive to the drive even more adventorous...

Ms.N said...

@ hey kaushik..how u doin???

tell me if ur interested... these people are laways lookin for new people!!!