Coyle Hospitality Shop ?

Does anyone ever get hotel stays with Coyle? I have done a few high end restaurants for them but I have yet to be scheduled for a hotel stay. Anyone have tips on getting hotel stays?

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Keep plugging along with the restaurants and keep applying for the hotel shops. It takes time to get a chance at the hotels.

True story with Coyle. I was going to be attending a conference in Erie PA. I noticed that they had a hotel shop there. I applied for the shop at least a 1.5 months before my conference. I heard nothing from them and considered it par for the course. My conference ended on a Monday and I head back home. On Tuesday, the day after I get back home, I get a call from Coyle asking if I could do the shop in Erie. They are terrible at scheduling.

Thanks. I have done a hotel shop for another company but it was a random one I found on a job board. Maybe I'm not in an area with a lot of hotel shops.

Wow.. I try to plan around vacations too. That stinks!

The hotel shops I have found with Coyle are in metro areas and not in my city. The best thing to do is try a search within 200 miles of where you live or plan to be visiting to see what pops up. You can also try emailing a scheduler if you have previously completed a hotel shop. I had done a hotel shop in Cleveland and gotten a good score on it, so when I saw one pop up in Pittsburgh that I wanted to do, I applied for it. Several days went by, crickets. I emailed the scheduler from the previous shop and boom! I got the shop. I did that again when I went to Houston to visit some relatives and stayed in a hotel the first day I got there before going to my brother's house. I like that Coyle actually pays a fee as well in addition to folio reversal.

They pay more, but they require a heckuva lot. Try BBusiness Solutions for ones that pay almost as much but require half the work. Or Buckalew Hospitality for ones that pay a lot less but also require a lot less. I'd steer clear of Regal.

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It really depends on Buckalew. Some of their shops are very detailed and takes a lot of work. Agreed on Regal, plus then take over 90 days to pay and reimburse.

Why would you stay clear of Regal other than the 90-day pay window?

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How is Coyle for restaurant shops? Is the report a novel? They finally have a restaurant in my area, so I would like to give them a try.

Coyle shops are a lot of work but they have way more availability than the others. I like that they get the hotel to reverse the charges. Regal doesn't (or at least in my experience they don't). Waiting 90 days for over $500 might present an issue for some people. Coyle pays a higher fee than Regal.

Marg, they are a lot of work but I like the restaurants they shop. Unfortunately the closest ones they have are a 70 mile round trip for me. But, you generally can't get hotel shops without doing restaurants first.

@marg704 wrote:

How is Coyle for restaurant shops? Is the report a novel?

Have you tried looking at the examples they offer on their site?

If you haven't gone over the information they provide, you probably won't have a very good experience working for them.

I have looked at examples and it is a lot, but no worse than other restaurant shops. There is one company that, no matter how much detail is provided, they kick back the report. There are a lot of complaints about them on this forum. I went to a complimentary dinner/soft opening at the one restaurant they finally have in my area, and it was delicious. So, it's worth performing a shop to get a feel for them. Thank you!

@Hoju Top three reasons: Their editors, their schedulers, the amount of work for the amount of pay.

I don't like the way Regal wants the shopper to write everything in the third person. It's hard to adjust to writing that way after doing everything in first person for so many years.

@marg704.. The restaurant shops are a lot of narrative writing. I had two fantastic meals that were close to $200. I normally wouldn't choose to spend this much on dinner but doing the Coyle shop makes it worth it.

Yes, and some of the hotels I have stayed at I would probably not have chosen, even though they were cool and swanky I would have probably stayed at a slightly lower priced chain on my own dime unless it was a very special occasion.

Regal's scheduler, Liza, is awesome. When I have questions about any shop details, she gives clear and concise answers. Two Regal hotels reversed my folio. One hotel reversed my 3-nights folio of $1700 in 3 days. I love the editor who is quick to edit. I much prefer to reply to a clarification 1-2 days after check out than after 2 weeks. It takes practice to write in 3rd person but doable.

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Well that's cool. They didn't reverse charges for the shops I did for them, though, and I had to wait over 90 days for my money.

The 90 day pay window is a huge drag. I kinda prefer reimbursement to reversal. It allows me to rack up way more credit card points.

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I did a hotel shop for Coyle and have only applied for one more since then. The perks for the hotel were really nice as far as the room, meals, show tickets in the hotel, etc. However. It was unbelievable how much darn work the report took, how many pictures were needed, etc. It was really exhausting when I was there for two days and then doing the very lengthy report. I was pretty burned out after that with doing a hotel.

Coyle has yet to really understand the balance that makes a good hotel report...but...they do have a lot of clients, so the clients must be happy.

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Well that's cool. They didn't reverse charges for the shops I did for them, though, and I had to wait over 90 days for my money.

It's basically pretty easy, for the most part the 3* hotels reverse and the 4* hotels reimburse. The cash integrity shops seem to reverse as well but those are more hit and miss I believe. But I could be wrong. Liza is great, as is the editor (who's name suddenly left me). I've only ever had 1 issue with them, I got confused on 2 shops that I thought reversed and instead reimbursed. They were super nice and apologetic but it was absolutely my fault. I did about 4 shops in 2 weeks and I simply got confused.

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@SteveSoCal wrote:

@marg704 wrote:

How is Coyle for restaurant shops? Is the report a novel?

Have you tried looking at the examples they offer on their site?

If you haven't gone over the information they provide, you probably won't have a very good experience working for them.

OK, I've done over 50 restaurant shops, 500 shops total. Coyle's level of detail for the pay is not worth it at all. 240 questions with 5 narratives for $7 plus reimbursement is not worth it. I would rather just eat cold pizza at home for the 3 hours of work involved afterward.

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240 questions with 5 narratives for $7 plus reimbursement is not worth it.

I have never seen a Coyle restaurant shop that pays that little. Most pay $15....and do you mean 5 sections for narrative?

It's a single narrative that gets separated into sections. I don't understand how breaking a narrative apart into 5 sections can even be an issue. If you don't feel the 2-3 typed pages of required narrative are worth it, that's another thing entirely.

They are very narrative intensive assignments. That's why I won't consider a dinner that doesn't offer at least $175 in reimbursement.

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