Coyle Hotel Shops

I have my first hotel shopped scheduled with Coyle and I was wondering if anyone does hotel shops with them and also other companies such as Dataquest and Regal how the reports compare, as I have done many hotel shops for them.

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Hi, carlsbadguy. Congratulations, and good luck on your first shop with Coyle. If you search the forums here, you will find a number of helpful threads about the detailed reporting required by Coyle. Coyle is a solid company with high standards. I have no experience with the other companies you mentioned.

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Let us know your experience.

I have done hotel shops for all three (Coyle, Dataquest, and Regal)... by far Coyle has more intensive narrative than the other two you mention.

I have done work for Coyle before and their reports are pretty intense. I usually get very high scores for my reports with the various companies, but ones I did for them were graded harshly - and it was only a restaurant shop.

They are high end, and have paid me promptly - although in full disclosure I have never done a hotel with them.

My advice on Coyle: make your reports look as much like their examples as possible. Same general phrasing, types of details, etc.

Once my reports looked like Coyle's example reports, I got 20s every time. Before that it was a string of 17s and 18s.

And, yes, their reports are very intense.

Good luck!

Any suggestions on how to actually get approved to shop through Coyle? I've applied and never hear back from them. I've been doing this for seven years now, am detailed, almost sickeningly organized, and have schedulers all over the place who would give me wonderful recommendations, but how do I let Coyle know this?

I think that the big selling point re: Coyle is to make sure that you stress you're a p/t shopper.

They don't want the f/t shopper; instead, they want an evaluator (note the difference in terms) who is only doing this as a "bonus" to add to their lifestyle, not to make a living.

Make sure your sample narrative reflects a very fine dining experience (VERY fine). Coyle wants evaluators who are very acquainted with nice cars, neighborhoods, homes, etc. They aren't snobs, but they want a certain demographic which reflects their clients.

Hope this helps.

I concur they o not want fulltime shoppers.

I have my first hotel evaluation assignment from Coyle. Haven't climbed up the ladder of salesqore, restaurant reviews etc. Coyle has directly assigned me one with a salesqore for booking the hotel i'm to evaluate. What are my chances and any suggestions?

What is a salesqore?

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Does Coyle pay for travel in advance for you to reach the venues? or else do i have to wait till my report is accepted for tavel reimbersements?

Salesqores are telephone-based reviews which have minimal requirements amongst all of Coyle's assignments on board. They are the ones to begin with to stard building your profile with Coyle. since salesqores can be done from any lacation and at the convenience of the mystery shopper they can be good to start with.

Okay, now it all makes perfect sense

I knew they had some set up making it more difficult to get to hotel shops, but didn't understand exactly what it was. Good luck!

suresh,

I highly recommend reading through the Coyle resource center....twice, if not more! It will answer your above question and prepare you for what's expected on the hotel assignment. This is the best and only truly accurate source of information for writing the evaluations, so it's important to have a good understanding of it.

If the reservation narrative for the hotel does live up to the expected standards, you stand a change of having the hotel assignment cancelled.

Thanks Steve,

And i guess ur second paragraph should read

if the reservation narrative for the hotel does NOT live up to the expected standards, you stand a change of having the hotel assignment cancelled.

is that right!

Thanks in advance

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sureshsurveys Wrote:
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> And i guess ur second paragraph should read
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> if the reservation narrative for the hotel does
> NOT live up to the expected standards, you stand
> a change of having the hotel assignment cancelled.

That's correct. I guess I should avoid posting when I'm tired

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