Special Event

Hi everybody!

 As you know we like to post some curiosities about the world and related with tourism. For this reason, to celebrate our post number 10 we would like to do a contest. Write a comment with one curiosity like we do and the best one will receive a pack experience of “La Vida Es Bella”.

You have until Saturday night to write us and on Sunday at eight o’clock we will post the name of the winner.

Make sure it is so good and it doesn’t matter if it is not related with tourism, we will accept every comment you can do.

Here you have a video about the tourism in the 60’s in Spain. It is an advert makes it with cartoons and it explain the rules that tourists have to take in account.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STsWQ3_cINg

Did you know…?

That space tourism, Mars usually, takes approximately three years.

Be careful with low prices

Not everything that shines is made of gold.

One of the things we like to do is talk about pack experiences, but like everything, these packs have sometimes problems and for this reason we would like to comment what kind of problems have.

We have been talking with people who used these packs before, some of them didn’t have any problem but another of them had to suffer the consequences that this packs cause.

Surfing by Internet we founded some people who was complaining about the poor quality of some of these packs, and making a summary of all the problems we arrived to the conclusion that the problem was the same.

Inside the pack you can find different places to visit and use the voucher in the place you prefer, then you have to call to the company you have choose and book your stay. As yet is correct, but the problem appears when you fixe the day and the hour. For sleep in a hotel or wherever, we have heard people who couldn’t reserve the night they want because, although there were free rooms, during the nights they were going to go is when there are more people who reserve with the normal way.

In conclusion, you have to choose a day that is not good for you because it is not profitable to the company.

We think this is not problem of the company. After all it is commerce and hey have to win money, for this reason that has the problem are the experience’s packs.

Investigating a little more, we had talked with a hotel in Barcelona that offer its rooms to packs like “La Vida Es Bella” and the manager told us that the benefit they obtained with people who come with experience’s packs it is so low, and sometimes it is not profit-making.

We don’t say that all the packs have the same problem, may be the company that offer its services and experience’s packs would have to agree a plan because the experiences that offer “La Vida Es Bella” and another are so good.

We hope this post serves to increase the quality of these packs and awareness to these packs to not having as high margin.

ATTENTION!!!!!!!!

Hold solicitous to this blog during the next 24 hours because we have a surprise for you during all the day of tomorrow Friday 15. Come in the next 24 hours…..

Did you know…?

That the earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

Where to go on your Easter holidays

It's Easter time!

Easter is coming, and what better option than spending a pair of days with someone special in a pinturesque and quiet place.
Listen to that, break, disconnect, rural tourism, gatronomy of the place, nature,... Would you say no? We don't think so...

'La Vida es Bella' offers you several options all around Spain to spend an unbelievable Easter holidays. As we did in the previous posts, we are going to explain you one of the best options in our point of view. We hope you like it.

Welcome to 'Posada Torre-Palacio de los Alvarado'.

Here you will feel like a knight with a shining armor or like a court lady. This place is situated in Merindad de Montija,  Burgos (Spain). This place was used as a meeting of the old nobility.

What 'La Vida es Bella' offers to you is to spend a night in a superior doble room with the breakfast included for the incredible price of 79,90 euros.

Don't you think that is something that you  can not spoil?

But,... WAIT WAIT WAIT there is more. If you want to stay with them more than one night there are special offer to make it possible and to enjoy  you as much as you can. If you stay until for more nights, the third and fourth you will have a dicount of 10% each night.

If you decide to stay more time, around the ' Posada Torre-Palacio de los Alvarado ' there are many places that ofers activities that will make your visit to Burgos a full experience. Some of these activities are go hiking, or golfing at the Golf Club Villarias , go skyinf because the ski resort is only 45 minutes far, or you can also do horse riding or adventure activities such as rafting, canyoning, climbing, paintball, zip, ... You must know that these activities are not included in the stay price, but it is a good option to enjoy your holidays.

Did you know...?

That there is a rolling hotel? It is called Rotel and it is a bus in which you can travel and sleep, as it is equipped with different compartments for guests.

Surviving the crisis.

Fusions and more fusions.

Good night everybody. Today we have a new about Smartbox and Wonderbox.

We never talked about Wonderbox before, but it is a king of pack experience that makes your dreams come true, or at least is what the say.

This midday, more or less at two o’clock we were walking around Montigalà Mall and when we arrived to Carrefour we saw an exposition of Wonderbox and next to this, another exposition of Wonderbox. The curiosity was that Wonderbox offered the same kind of destinies than Smartbox and Wonderbox had a lower price, exactly10 Euros less. We would like to show you a photo of this but the personal of Carrefour didn’t let us do any photo to their products.

But the situation was the next; in front of the aisle there were these two packs and in the sideway there was “La Vida Es Bella” with a high price.

We were puzzled because normally Wonderbox has higher prices than another packs. Maybe one of the reasons is because Smartbox and “La Vida Es Bella” were joined and Wonderbox didn’t want to surrender. We have been investigating and effectively Wonderbox is propriety of Smart and Co. The CEO of Smart and Co has assured that has promoted a plan of action to reinvent Wonderbox and become this brand as the “Low Cost” of the company offering packs with the same category they had but battling this way to travel agencies.

During all 2012, the brand had sold more than 650.000 packs and is operating in more than 14 countries. 

Did you know...?

That the Vatican has the money enough to end world poverty twice.

Fusion of companies

Acquisitions.

We are again here to tell you about the fussion of "La Vida es Bella" and Smart and co company.

“La vida es Bella” and “Smartbox” combine forces to mill the global economic crisis.

One month ago, the French multinational Smart & Co, which owns several companies’ gift experiences, has acquired “La vida es Bella” company from Spain.

“La vida es Bella” split with those who have been their Portuguese partners, A e bela life, and becomes part of the largest and strongest in the sector of worldwide experience.

The new company assure that they are pleased at the group to have a new member. Firmly, they believe that the acquisition of “La vida es Bella” above all strengthen the industry itself, as said the CEO of Smart & Co, Axel Bernia.

“La vida es Bella”, that in 2011 turnover of 30 million Euros, was launched in Spain in 2006 and, after two years of marketing a catalogue of more than a thousand experiences through websites, made ​​the leap to the big distribution Christmas 2008, when it launched its first 10 packs of experiences.

Smart & Co, present in 14 countries and a workforce of 800 employees, had in 2011 had a turnover that touched the 400 million Euros. EFECOM.

Did you know...?

That tipping in Japan is a sign of bad manners.

Love is in the air...

...Everywhere I look arround.....

The flowers,  the chocolate, the love of your life ... Are love nice?....Really not...

Well, what we are going to talk today is about packs experiences related with Valentine's day and the economic benefits that this day contribute in these packs.

Experiences boxes have become one of the gifts this Valentine star as they offer their buyers a variety of activities and destinations to choose from with prices to suit all budgets ranging from 15 to 300 euros.

The leading companies in this sector in Spain (“La vida es Bella!, Smartbox, Kaleidoscope, Minube) ensure that sales at Christmas and Valentine's Day are the most important of the year and some of them have been detected even in 2013 an increase of 12 % on sales recorded last year.

Despite the economic situation, the large number of products that refer to experiences of enjoyment with friends with a very varied prices makes it one of the favorite gifts by the Spanish in these romantic dates.

Some companies like 'La vida es Bella' have even launched limited editions of some of his experiences with a special image catalog on the occasion of Valentine's Day, all with a common message: 'I Love You'.

Smartbox has also launched a special product 'Smartbox I like you', a box multiexperiencia that offers more than 500 options for wellness, gastronomy, adventure to share with friends. They have also created a romantic selection with other boxes as 'Smartbox romantic evening' or 'romantic and Gourmet Smartbox' User Profile.

The customer profile of this type of product is that of young people between 25 and 45 years, familiar with online shopping, with medium-high purchasing power and consumption do solo.

Lately note also increasingly a social purchase by a group of friends, especially in packs of food experiences, sports or nature.

The companies have found that, in general, is a product consumed mostly by women but men have lately discovered the benefits of this new type of gift.

The star products of these experiences are packages dedicated to pampering, short breaks and stays, especially as Valentine dates. "The ones we sell in Spain are 'Refuge for two' and 'Spa for two,'" stated Mayte Garcia, La Vida es Bella” told Europa Press.

Customers are increasingly demanding economic experiences and of short duration, so the two-night stays are favorites. In Smartbox 'top sales' are 'Smartbox off three days', 'Smartbox City Weekend 2 nights' or 'Three days with rural flavor'.

Despite the crisis, the sales price of the packages has not changed in the last year although it has diversified gift ideas with the same quality, but at a price adjusted to have experiences for all types audiences.

Did you know...?

That the tradition in South Korea says that women should give chocolate to your sweetheart on Valentine's Day, while the man has to return the gift a month later, on March 14, in the so-called White Day....

And....

In Nicaragua, where a radio station organized a mass wedding of 500 couples....

And...

Valentine scary in Norfolk, England, for the character of Jack Valentine, who plays in the back doors of the houses, leaving sweets and presents for children. Although good character, Jack scares children most of the population.

The power of big companies

“El día sin I.V.A” de Media Markt”

Good night friends and partners of Creating Experiences All Around.

Today we will talk one more time about "La vida es Bella", but this time with something different as we use to do.

As you know, Media Markt, one of the biggest retailer shops of electronics, films, music and above, offers us five times per year the authentic “día sdin IVA”. This consists in a discount of the 21 per cent, equivalent to the part of I.V.A we pay, in all the products they sell during one whole day.

Well, why we talk you about Media Markt and its fantastic day?

It is simple… According to our sources, “La Vida es Bella”, a product that is distributed by channels like FNAC, Decathlon or ....Media Markt…., sells all their packs with the same price wherever you can find it but the price you pay is not the price that the shops like FNAC or Media Markt pay.

You will think…it’s normal, all the companies have a lower price of everything they then will sell with a higher price…..

FALSE!!!!!!!!!!!!

“La vida es Bella” don’t sell to the retailer companies the packs and then they mark a price, “La Vida es Bella” sell simply the box and the cost of this box for the company is one cent and for the consumer the established price that “La Vida es Bella” say. When you are going to pay these packs you active the target that lets you use this product and the benefits that goes to the retailer company is just the five per cent of all the product price.

And now…..what happen if Media Markt makes a discount of the 21 per cent in these packs???????

We have two theories…

One…..Is a market strategy to attract more people and get more cash, ignoring the benefits they are getting.

Or…Media Markt is trying to trick us with his strategy market.

We don’t have to forget that I.V.A we have to pay they can to weap clean…..

Did you know…?

That in Bulgaria, Bulgarians nod their heads up and down to say “no” and from side to side to say “yes”?