You can’t go home without the goodie bag!
I can’t imagine that SPG would ever let their members go home without a goodie bag and for that matter, couldn’t imagine aloft letting their guests leave without a pleasant memory as well, so, I like the others did not leave empty handed – let me spill the bag for you.
Here’s the breakdown:
- Speaker with keychain for your iPod/iPhone
- An aloft hotels rubik cube
- Soy candle
- Perfect grabber for handles
- More gummi bears (sorry, none left)
- Collection of Starwood Hotels picture postcards
- wine puller/corkscrew from Jacob’s Creek
- $10 gift certificate from Fretzels by Jill (which is a coated pretzel treat that you can get addicted to)
- A signed CD from Michelle Williams, We Break the Dawn
- A nice “Starwood Preferred Guest welcomes aloft” notebook
and finally, a very, very nice heavy felt purse/bag to carry it all home in.
NOW, that’s not all. On the way out the door to catch the bus, this guy really doesn’t go goo-goo over the bags contents and figures that he would just look it over when he gets back home. So off into the night and off to the airport the very next day. Just an overnighter so it’s pure carryon and carry forward. Ah……. until Mr. TSA wiggles his finger (politely I must say) and motions me aside without my shoes on. It seems that my carry on contains violations. Well, beyond my nice little plastic bag of mentionables, it seems that the aloft goodie bag contains a warrant for my immediate inspection.
It seems that I really should have looked the goodie bag over. It contains a nice bottle of Stolichnaya vodka and a complete gift pack of those lovely Bliss products that will be featured in every aloft room. So that is why they are not included in the actual picture of the goodie bag above, but rather, pictured below (against the lovely backdrop of floor tile at LGA). As I bid those lovely gifts goodbye – I hope the dumpster divers enjoy them – off I flew with nothing but great memories of how SPG continues to earn great customer contact from their members and the sneek preview of the newest addition to the Starwood brand.
