The Sad Truth Behind Game Show Prizes (r/AskReddit)

for people who have won a vacation from a game show how was the actual trip towards the end of her life pretty much housebound due to copped my very intelligent mother started entering competitions online to keep her brain active as her body deteriorated and she would win little bits here and there a CD a bottle of perfume some DVDs etc then one day she got an email from the Guardian newspaper telling her she had won one of five top prizes in a holiday competition winning a 10,000 pounds two-week trip to Peru everything was included a full itinerary tour bed-and-breakfast accommodation in for asterisk hotels and all flights and transfers cue excitement and joy before she eventually came to terms with the fact that she was far too sick to go she was on piped oxygen in the house so going somewhere where oxygen is thin was a really bad idea they were very good and offered her basically any alternative up to the same cost but no one would insure her to go anywhere and she came to the realization that she would never travel anywhere again she gave the holiday to me and I ended up going with a mate and it was a great holiday but the whole time I felt guilty that I was going and not her we made sure to bring back lots and lots of presents she died about six months later radio contest in Canada my mum won our all expenses paid trip to Disneyland for four got flights four nights in a Disney hotel at the park three days worth of park passes $500 Disney cash into voucher for one free theme breakfast and one free themed dinner trip cost maybe $500 out-of-pocket so 10 tenths were due again I won a trip for two tomorry on wheel of fortune I'm a redditor so I don't have a girlfriend and therefore took my brother imagine a hotel pool with a sea of honeymooners diamond rings newly glistening in the tropical sunlight then out of nowhere come to fat squelching idiots pina coladas in chubby hands splashing and wrestling having contests to see who could jump farther off the diving board without spilling their drink judging each other not only on spillage but also distance and style it was a fantastic trip I won a trip to Vermont on some Nickelodeon game show they only offered extremely specific dates that were super inconvenient to anyone given that I was in high school and couldn't just fire off to a cabin on a Wednesday Friday jet away the prize expired a year later I did win a trip on a game show Wheel of Fortune it was awesome and was upgraded the entire time flights hotels etc regarding taxes all you have to do is prove you can get the items cheaper so even though they said it was a $7,500 trip or something I was able to find flights cheaper and hotel cheaper than they were claiming as the full retail value all you have to do is have the proof for the eyes of those cheaper prices for the day completely one of those cheeks that asked as I was getting my info squared away with them after the show I won a trip to the Poconos from a Chicago radio show in 1996 it was at a decently cheesy hotel with the bed shaped like a heart and a jacuzzi and pool in the room oh I took my then-girlfriend I have no complaints I don't think I needed to pay any taxes I won a trip to Las Vegas on a Price is Right live show had the option to take the trip worth $1,200 or take smaller cash prize I think $700 right away I decided to take the trip as I had never been to Vegas the company that put on the show contacted me about a week later to talk to me about it I told them I wasn't sure when I wanted to go and I would contact them when I knew a couple of weeks after that they sent me a check for the full amount of the trip with a note saying that I can book my trip whenever I want I ended up getting tires and brakes for my car instead I won a trip for two to a convention once it was pretty sweet they paid for airfare from east to west coast put us up in Embassy Suites which was about a mile walk from the Convention Center and got us tickets into the con itself they didn't bother to put on names on the badges and the taxes they did warn us that we would owe taxes but they didn't really explain the value of what we would be paying taxes on until we got the tax form my friend won a trip to meet Bam Margera as the date approached the $3,000 trip was only us getting our lodging and our meals taken care of in suburban Philadelphia friends uncle a lawyer raised the real stink about it so they flew us to lar instead and paid for everything trip was great but since I was a teenager at the time I imagine it could have been better also Bam was an ass never said two words to us simply talk to the guy who ran the competition the whole time worth the story though not a game show but I did win a three-day trip to Florida for two from a radio show and let me tell you it sucked first the condo we won was straight up a hotel room look in timeshare in Panama City on the dirtiest part of the beach in Panama City and that's saying something and I don't mean seaweed and sea stuff washed ashore I mean like their cans and fast food bags next to dirty diaper bad secondly they didn't even pay for travel which was fine we lived in Georgia so it wasn't that bad but they did pay for one night five-star dinner and it was some tourist trap Florida authentic seafood place where the seafood was crap and the atmosphere was annoying and if traveled 15 minutes down the road you'd find the same restaurant with a different name I spent maybe $600 on food and a dolphin tour which was fun overall hydrated a 7/10 cause three days off work and at least we got free lodging won a trip to the Super Bowl in New York from Gillette via Twitter it was about two weeks before the Super Bowl at first I thought it was a hoax but my daughter won and took me along everything was first-class hotel JW Marriott Times Square place was loaded with players currentindex plus all the Super Bowl NFL stuff was happening right there pregame at the stadium included The Band Perry all the food and drinks we wanted open bar and stars in the pregame tailgate bus transfer from hotel to stadium flights and row one seats near the Seahawks bench we were sitting in front of players wives girlfriends and friends they carried the Super Bowl trophy right past us and the sideline was full of stars everything was first-class I will never shave with anything but Gillette ever again obligatory not a game show but a competition via Twitter won a trip to New York from the UK for two people it was return flights from Heathrow to JFK two nights Dana for asterisk Hotel Airport transfers 500 pounds spending money a helicopter flight and tickets to a Broadway show of our choice due to flight timings we ended up using some of the spending money to pay for a third night of the hotel the trip was everything I hoped and more I'd always wanted to go to New York and it didn't disappoint the helicopter flight was a massive highlight and we went to see The Lion King which was also amazing we used some of our own savings so that we had plenty of spending money for a once-in-a-lifetime trip but ten tenths would recommend you enter andum competitions on Twitter I won a spring break trip to Florida in a bar raffle when I was in university when I went to collect it I learned it was a bus ticket to Florida from Detroit so two days of driving a presumably shitty hotel but the worst was that it was a trip for one if I wanted to go I'd have to convince someone to purchase another ticket like WTF oh please sit on a greyhound with me and fifty other crazy spring breakers for two days on our way to the cockroach motel I did I won a trip to the Bahamas on a cruise ship of a radio station funny was my husband had quit that radio station only three months before or I wouldn't have been allowed to win found out it was my mom who actually entered my name in a 7-up drawing I had just given birth to my daughter a few months before so my mom and I went together while my husband stayed home with our daughter and older son it was wonderful and great and we were able to do a lot of sightseeing everything was paid including all Tiff's I'm not sure I remember how much the taxes we're but his wasn't bad at all considering the total cost of the trip the only issue I had was the entire cruise was filled with people who won the trip by either winning contest like I did or being the top sellers of the product in their area or who we're bigwigs in the industry I was shocked at how many people were complaining over the slightest things on the trip thinking why are you complaining you are not paying anything to take the trip talk about being spoiled not a game show but my parents won an all-inclusive trip to see the Toronto Blue Jays play the Boston Red Sox back in the early 90s it was some sort of draw and when they told my mom she won she didn't believe them so they sent a package flights from Toronto to Boston Hotel info game tickets it was a four-day stay and she thought it was a scam so she threw it out a few days later they called and said hey your trip is next week have you booked anything she freaks out realizing it's not a scam and eventually finds the trip package in the trash they end up going had a great long weekend tour in Boston and enjoy it through all expenses paid trip I don't remember much more than that because I was like seven at the time we do love to bring it up every once and a while just to tease more I won a radio contest in Chicago for having an ugly tattoo the priceless free removal I didn't go through with it because the taxes were going to be around $1,200 and I would have had to drive over an hour to the clinic and was estimated to need seven sessions I'd rather spend that much money on a cover-up and get something that I liked I won a seven-night eight-day stay in Washington tax is about two hundred and seventy-five dollars for both my husband and me together add to that the $400 round-trip therefore for us and I'm still pretty pleased with a week-long vacation in a luxury condo for that price I checked and just a moderately priced hotel would cost as much for the same location and length of stay before airfare back in the late 90s when I was in high school I won a trip to see my favorite band they paid for our flights and lodging and travel tickets food ect I think we just paid for lunches the band's manager was kind of our driver and he was awesome he played some new music from some new people to get our opinion on if we liked it we got to do dinner with the band backstage before one gig our concert tickets were beyond insanely awesome plus we had unlimited backstage passes so we could just leave our seats and go backstage for a drink or bathroom we saw them in concert three nights in a row in Phoenix AZ Newport Beach cap and another Cal occasion the resort's we stated were awesome dinners were backstage each night one night the band joined us breakfast was at the hotels and lunch was our own choice I think I also won $500 spending money that I used for bills I took my mom and another couple had also won I was a huge fan and very active on their message boards so I posted about the whole trip as it was going on which was kind of fun because one of the band guys was like is the one posting on the boards me the only sucky part wasn't their fault my luggage got lost and didn't arrive until the third day of the night before we were to travel her I had bought a lot of awesome new outfits to wear each night and ended up wearing the same thing the whole time oh well the band was a Christian band third day still one of my faves saved my life my then fiance now ex-wife won a contest in BC's interior small cruise on a ferry use of a 4x4 hotel and accommodation for a week a grand in camping gear and a couple of bicycles the trip was great the ferry hit a log and broke the propeller so they put in a different one we were one of the first Landers at this small island so we got to check it out and explore drove down in the interior an excellent time all around the bikes when we won them I was 250 pounds and really really out of shape I decided to bike to school and got about 200 yards before I had to rest it took more than a month before I could get the two miles to school but I did it along the way I missed an appointment with a cardiologist and a coroner now I weigh about 160 pounds you

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Length: 13min 20sec (800 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 03 2019