The FREE $25,000 Vacation Part 4

We left on an early flight from Miami to Philadelphia where we met up with Jeff Johnston and Maria Corr for our trip to Italy! The flight was uneventful on the way to Venice, until we landed and realized that US Airways had lost mine and Sara’s luggage. This was especially problematic considering the airport is on the mainland in Venice and we were staying at the Westin Regina Europa, which is in the main section of the canals. The airline also did not handle the situation properly at all, and there is only ONE US AIRWAYS employee who handles ticketing and BAGS!! We called the airport for hours trying to track down the bags, and luckily since Jeff and Maria had their bags we shared clothes with them until we could do some shopping!
Venice was amazing! It is incredible to see a city built completely with canals and especially considering the city was built hundreds of years ago and it is still there! (At least for now) We got a chance to see all the sites in Venice and had some amazing food and wine (which we pretty much did everywhere). The hotel we stayed is the highest rated hotel in all of Venice, and was absolutely gorgeous and our room looked out at the largest cathedral in the city. There were some great shops with beautiful hand blown glass because of the proximity of Venice to Murano, where most of the BEST hand blown glass comes from. We only spent two days in Venice which was about the perfect amount of time considering the city is relatively small and everything starts to look the same after a while!

The FREE $25,000 Vacation Part 3

We decided to plan an extra day on the Florida of the leg of the trip to go to South Beach. I recently purchased a unit at the “W South Beach” with my friend Henry Nahmad, and this gave us an excuse to go see the unit and check out the AMAZING property.

I made the decision not to purchase anymore real estate two years ago, because I do think the economy and the real estate market is going to see a double dip that could be worse than the first round in 2008. However, I love the Starwood Brand and this property offers a condo hotel program that allows the owner to share the hotel revenue on the unit when I am not using it!

Especially if inflation gets as bad as I think it will this will be a great investment because the purchase price is based on today’s dollar value and the hotel rental rates will increase with inflation.

We got to Miami in the afternoon and hit up my FAVORITE sandwich shop “Sandwicherie.” Henry joined us over at the W and we checked out the pool and the INCREDIBLE property. The lobby ceilings are about 4 stories and the grounds are immaculate.

They even have a bungalow dedicated to my favorite show “Entourage.” We went to the Living Room lounge at the W that night and then hit the actual club at the hotel later in the evening.

It is definitely the place to SEE and BE SEEN right now on South Beach with the cheapest rooms in off season selling for around $500 per night.

Can't wait to share more about the trip!!!

Stay Tuned,

Wes Melcher

Kanye West Takes the Mic from Taylor Swift at MTV VMA Awards

This is the video everyone has been talking about!! I hope it stays up because it has been yanked down everywhere!!

Kanye West took the microphone from Taylor Swift on stage at the 2009 MTV VMA awards last night.

The FREE $25,000 Vacation Continued

The second leg of the Wes Melcher $25,000 FREE VACATION took us on a First Class flight from Los Angeles to Key West, Florida. Sara has been talking about her family tradition of "Lobstering" for as long as I have known her, so we made plans earlier in the year to participate in this amazingly difficult but very entertaining experience. In typical Wes Melcher form I challenged Sara that I could get more lobsters than she could, and that was a HUGE mistake!

Sara is not only an expert at this crazy sport, but she has practiced many times!! I assumed that catching a lobster with your hands couldn't be that difficult, but I was definitely wrong!! Her family also handicapped my experience by giving me the leftover "Lobstering" supplies!! We had to free-dive in about 10 feet of water, and use a lobstering stick, bag, measuring gauge and gloves. The trip was a HUGE Success with our group bringing in over 125 Lobsters in two days!! I was the loser on the leaderboard with a whopping two lobsters!!

Key West was a great change from the pace of the previous week in Hollywood. We got a chance to relax around a totally different pool scene at a great Hyatt Resort, which we got at a huge discount thanks to WorldVentures! We also got a chance to eat some amazing food, which included multiple pieces of KEY LIME PIE!!
We also got a chance to wrap up a couple of the days with some pier fishing that yielded very little results, so all in all my outdoors skills were below average at best on this leg of the trip!!!

This leg of the trip was adventurous to say the least, and I am glad we got to spend time on the boat, but sleep at a great hotel, because sleeping with the fish and lobsters would have been interesting!!

The BEST FREE $25,000 Vacation EVER!!

I wanted to share some photos and highlights from my one month vacation. The entire month would have cost well over $25,000 without including any of the shopping or AMAZING food.

The trip started off with Jeff Johnston and Maria Corr joining Sara Thompson and myself for a weekend in Los Angeles. We were invited to a Charity Event at Beso, which is co-owned by Eva Longoria. We had an amazing meal and spent time with Chris Masterson from "Malcolm in the Middle." The weekend was topped off by time at Teddy's nightclub and the amazing pool at the Roosevelt Hotel, which is a Hollywood landmark and icon. I love getting to mix business and pleasure at amazing hotels around the world. We got to spend time with Eden Alpert and Martin Ruof (two WorldVentures Superstars) at the hotspot Vibrato which eden co-owns with her Jazz Legend fathere Herb Alpert. These are the types of people and events I have been blessed to attend because of the lifestyle WorldVentures has given me.

We also got a chance to work with some very influential people in the entertainment industry on the new Luxury DreamTrips product that Worldventures just rolled out to the US Market. The product has been met with an overwhelming response to the high end market that are looking for the type of class and service that WorldVentures has already shown with their DreamTrips around the globe. If you would like to visit the official website for the Wes Melcher Luxury Dream Trips site then please go to http://www.cashiontravel.luxdt.com/

I will be bringing you the next leg of this amazing vacation real soon, so stay tuned!!

Thanks for your support,

Wes Melcher