Going to the SuperBowl in Miami, Florida?
Learn how sports fans arrange their bucket list travel with Bruce Oliver.
Bruce: Good day to anybody that’s out there interested in going to future event and luxury sporting event. That’s what we offer today. And I’m talking to Barrett Caldwell from Road Trips, my website. If you are interested, you can go to http://luxurysportingevents.com and what can put together any package that you wish. As a matter of fact, bear can talk a little bit about today, the availability for the super bowl, which is in January and it just in a few days from now and what the likelihood is that you would be able to put together a package that we can develop for you and customize for you. Well, welcome to the program Barrett. I’m happy to see you and give us a little bit of background about, what you do and how you do it.
Barrett: But yeah, my background specifically at road trips has been, has been wonderful. I mean we are the, the perennial kind of pick for someone who wants a luxury sporting event. So I would definitely put that asterick there that we’re going to be on the high end premium side of the market that doesn’t enact it has to be exorbitant. But yeah, surrounding the Superbowl. Let’s just talk that quickly because you mentioned it, is that we’re the go to resource for someone to have a seamless travel experience. So that means, Hey, take care of my tickets, take care of my accommodation, take care of getting me to and from the airport, add on some hospitality, add on some VIP, let’s say parties, some pregame, you know, festivities, things around Superbowl weekend in Miami. I actually, you know, funny enough flew back last night from Miami, I was down there doing a lot of prep work and kind of getting red trips ready to have our host fly in a which has representatives, our company, people who work for us to really make sure you have that seamless experience from airport pickup to hotel, greeting to tickets in hand to really put that seamless touch on sports travel.
Barrett: And so that’s, that’s what I did in Miami to get us ready. And then obviously that I’ll carry through the next four or five days as people are there for the game. But gosh, you want to talk availability for it. I mean we’re priced, they’re probably at 98% sold at this point. And I had a last minute request this morning for a family of four. I think we’re going to be able to deliver on that. I have some confidence with two phone calls I made earlier, both with hotel and then of course the tickets we have. But yeah, we start, I mean, gosh, we start planning for Superbowls a year and a half to two years in advance with getting hotel space. We’re securing our ticket assets everywhere from, you know, kind of the upper deck, middle range all the way down to club seats at the 50 yard line we can deliver on.
Barrett: Well, it’s, it’s, it’s, I mean, to that point right there, it’s what you said. I mean, my, my whole goal and what we do in road trips as a preferred partner, if you will, with brace, with your company and luxury sporting events is that I want to deliver on their preferred experience. All your best clients, any of your travelers out there watching, chances are somewhere in that top five bucket, they have sports somewhere. Whether that’s the kids in the family who loved tennis, whether that’s someone who has a Superbowl dream or a Tokyo Olympic stream or a Paris 20, 24 summer games dream, whatever it looks like. I’m just the one going, that’s your dream. My job is to create it. So working in partnership with you is where I sit there and kind of put the glue on their preferred experience so you can come to me and asked me how I would do it. But at the end of the day it’s what events do you want to s...