Several years ago my long-time award booking partner Steve (author of Mileage Maniac) created an annual ‘Amazing Race For Normal People’ team travel competition in Europe. Competitours.com features unique and compelling challenge activities that push you gently out of your comfort zone.
- Your routing is a mystery, 3-4 countries over 10 days
- Each day’s location only revealed with a few hours’ notice
- Destinations zig zag around the nooks and crannies of Western Europe
- Daily challenges in which teams compete for points, in an effort to be crowned the champion at the end
There are no eliminations and no one gets left behind as teams transfer to another destination. It’s a game, but the vibe for winning the cash grand prize is more like a friendly poker game, not a fight to the death like the TV show.
Just as Steve is no longer actively booking awards anymore, he’s retired from actively managing Competitours – but he’s going to join this year as a participant. Steve and his wife are competing on the same basis as everyone else, with no information on the routing or challenges.
Something I’ve done in the past I’m going to repeat this year, sponsoring a BOGO offer for one team on this year’s trip. Every time the team that represents View From the Wing has an amazing experience.
- Submit your interest as a team of two or three people
- One person would be comped the full $3,775 value of the trip, while the teammate(s) would be responsible for themselves
- Flights to/from the starting/ending cities are not included
- Participants must be at the Innsbruck airport arrival area at 14:00 on July 16th for the official start of the trip
- Participants can fly home anytime on or after July 26th, when the trip ends in Brussels.
- To submit your entry, please send an email to info-at-competitours.com with a description of the people on your team and why you think you should be given the BOGO. Please include a picture of your team together as well.
- They can help you use miles for your trip as well.
Best of luck to Steve this summer, and to one of you as you try to show him who’s boss!
And if you want to learn more before signing on you can pull this documentary about Competitours.
I would love to do this in the US in the flyover states. Despite large proportions of uneducated and uncultured “deplorables” there are some gems:
— KC BBQ and brewery tours
— Chicago pizza and hotdogs
— Wisconsin cheese
— Kentucky bourbon
— Tennessee whiskey, Nashville music scene
— Michigan upper peninsula cherries and cherry pie
— Iowa “Kum and Go” gas stations (yes, for real)
As in July 16, 2 weeks from now? I’d love to but already have overlapping travel planned. Did you have someone lined up who has now backed out?
This would be fun, but 14 days’ notice doesn’t work for me. Don’t have dogcare lined up etc.
Doubly fun since my son is working in Innsbruck… Served by Air Dolomiti (LH group), Austrian, BA, KL, and a bunch of LCCs
I’d love to, but I’m in Colombia until July 20th
We do have a US-based trip for next summer, but obviously the exact routing is a mystery.
As for this, yes, it’s very short notice – sorry all!
For any questions, beyond just trying to score this BOGO, free to email at the address in the post.
Can’t wait to see you all on one of our trips soon!
Would love to do this in big leftist controlled cities. Despite large proportions of overtaxed, overregulated, self-righteous fools willing to support tent cities full of drunks, drug abusers and criminals, there are some gems.
What fun it would be to see who survives the gauntlet without being robbed, raped, assaulted or killed! A bonus point challenge could be ending a timed walk through downtown without stepping in any poop or being chased by an screaming, insane “unhoused person”.