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| Ideal for Crystal Gayle and Willy Wonka Wannabes! |
| 08.16.07 (7:09 pm) [edit] |
| The classified ad below recently ran on Craigslist.org. Basically, it is asking individuals if they can write a better summary than the one contained in the ad. To answer the personnel at HotelShark.com, "yes, I can" and I have included it below. Here's Knowledge's summary: "SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW the management must be high if they think that i'm stayin' in this noisy, skanky, pricey, bitchy, nasty pigsty where they lie and I might die!" (On a more positive note: Ideal hostel for Crystal Gayle and Willy Wonka wannabes due to all of the hair and candy wrappers graciously left all over the place.) Somehow, I have a feeling that it may be a little too much for HotelShark.com. Hotel Review Challenge: Read the Craigslist ad below and write a summary better than mine. s.f. bayarea craigslist peninsula writing gigs Expert Quip Writer for New York Times-Praised Hotel Website ------------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------- ----- Reply to: gigs-408910529@craigslist .org Date: 2007-08-29, 2:02PM PDT HotelShark.com is an award-winning hotel reviews website that's been recommended by the Wall Street Journal (June 1, 2007), the New York Times (February 7, 2006) and other puffy newspapers. Founded in 2001, the site collects, screens and publishes traveler-written opinions of hotels. The site is in the middle of a redesign, and we need a Zagat-esque scribe to scribble some zingers. Here's why: A given hotel's entry on HotelShark.com consists of three elements: the name and contact information of the hotel, a summary, and the opinions. The opinions are the raw words sent to us by travelers. Usually there's between one and three opinions per hotel. The summaries are what we need someone to write. A summary is a pithy, Zagat-style, 1-2 sentence amusing encapsulation of the opinions. It needs to firstly guide, and secondly amuse. That is, it must first make a tacit recommendation or warning; and second, tickle. Example: ------------------------- - Hotel Interlaken 26 Av Durante Nice, Alpes-Maritimes 6000 France SUMMARY: Management affords guests "no right to complain" at this "bad hostel," where a "busy road" and "drunk people" makes a good night's sleep unlikely. OPINION: Received from a traveler on Sunday, 12-Aug-07: "Hotel Interlaken, Nice, France. - On the website of the hotel I only see nice, brightly colored rooms. In fact these colored rooms are only the junior rooms and much more expensive than the standard rooms. The standard rooms are plain white, small and almost falling apart so it seems. There was absolutely no similarity with the room we thought we had booked. When reporting this to the manager we were told that we had no right to complain. He was very rude and didn't speak english. We thought we had booked a regular hotel, but in fact this is a bad hostel. The worst thing was that the windows didn't close properly and the hotel is situated next to a very busy road and above a night club. If you want some sleep befor 4 am, this is not the place to stay. You can hear shouting below you window and drunk people all through the night. Also the cleanliness was very bad. Our room had sweets rappings and hairs all over the place. The location is all right, but don't stay here all alone. The hotel is situated in an area with night clubs and striptease clubs and there are many drunk people and tramps on the streets. Watch your wallet!" ------------------------- - Can you write a better summary? We hope so, because we have about 300 just waiting to be written. To be considered, please write a new version of the above summary, using the opinion as source material. Send your summary to us in the body of an email. Please, no attachments. Please also state your per-summary compensation rate. We'll quickly respond to writers that provide us with an outstanding summary sample, and a reasonable rate. Also, please note that we promise not to use your sample unless we pay you. This is a freelance opportunity, so you can be located anywhere. Thanks -- we look forward to hearing form you. |
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