I want to go to Orlando with my mum and my 2 children. Is it possible to have hotel night stay with Coyle for all of us? Or is it only for 2 adults?

Have you done many Coyle hotels in the past?

not at all. I was told that I would need to do restaurants with Coyle before being able to do a hotel. But I want to know if it's possible to do it for 2 adults and 2 kids. If yes, I could do 1 restaurant before asking for a hotel.

You generally need a few restaurants before moving on to hotels...and the ones that allow children generally post that in the guidelines. Some hotels require children come along, and there are some Coyle clients that great for multi-generational trips. You gotta put in the work to be in good standing with them, though.....

...so, uh, the answer to your question is "No." Coyle is very good at saying "No."

Yes, it's possible. Coyle have shop hotel assignments geared towards families. There are some that requires children as well.

BTW, you asked this same question last year:
[www.mysteryshopforum.com]

Had you done some shops for Coyle in the last year, our answer might be different.

Thanks, I forgot. It seems that I didn't read carefully the responses, and they are numerous and instructive enough.

@miamiparis wrote:

Thanks, I forgot. It seems that I didn't read carefully the responses, and they are numerous and instructive enough.

So, I'm curious. Did you accept the hotel mystery shop that says "can bring 1 guest" when you went to Orlando in May? Did you sneak your kids in and did you get paid? I'm guessing that was a different MSC than Coyle?

No, I registered my mum on airbnb using my referral link, so she got a $40 discount. It was better like that because I did my first mystery shop for an attraction park, and it took me 3 hours 20 minutes to write the report in a restaurant on the way back home, trying to finish it before midnight, so I really wouldn't have time to do a hotel shop. I think either you do a hotel shop, either an attraction park shop, but you cannot have the time for both.

@miamiparis wrote:

No, I registered my mum on airbnb using my referral link, so she got a $40 discount. It was better like that because I did my first mystery shop for an attraction park, and it took me 3 hours 20 minutes to write the report in a restaurant on the way back home, trying to finish it before midnight, so I really wouldn't have time to do a hotel shop. I think either you do a hotel shop, either an attraction park shop, but you cannot have the time for both.

You can once you are seasoned.... and if you have the ability to multitask/ organize your time. I've done working 'vacations' where it's hotel, restaurants, zoo's & even some retail.

Did you do it with kids? I have 2, 7 and 9 years old.

I have seen some Coyle shops for waterparks.

Edited because I misunderstood your post. The way it was written looked like you have a 2, 7, and 9 year old, but I saw your original post states you have 2 kids.

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I literally have 5 people on the planet that I would trust to do a Coyle hotel with me:

BFF
MickeyB
SteveSoCal
My son (over 21). Not my daughter (under 21).
One good traveling friend who has done over 100 hotels and bar audits with me.

That's it. Their jobs are too much work, too intense, and I don't need a distraction that could cost me a few thousand dollars if they get in my way or cause me to miss something.

I'm not so picky with dining shop partners or even bar partners.

I should have wrote "I have 2: 7 and 9 years old." instead of "I have 2, 7 and 9 years old.".

Yeah, I got it after I went back and saw the first post, no biggie.

@miamiparis wrote:

I should have wrote "I have 2: 7 and 9 years old." instead of "I have 2, 7 and 9 years old.".

I think you went with the right plan. Vacations are to spend time with the family. Plenty of time to work and make money when you are home. And having to sneak the kids in at the hotel would have made me feel guilty and I would have worried about working hard on the report and then maybe not getting paid. Doing the shop for the amusement park, you made money for something you wanted to do with the kids but you didn't have to spend all your time working. Good for you.

@miamiparis wrote:

Did you do it with kids? I have 2, 7 and 9 years old.

I have 5...
Their ages now are 5, 7, 7, 13, 18 (yes, I have twins)


I take pictures like crazy. Where most people might take a 'note' I take a photo. The photo is time stamped and that combined with a pretty good memory...... ask my husband about that, he LOVES it.... (sarcasm! ) I really only take notes, which are just texts to myself, about the geeting/ closing statement of the employee I'm interacting with. My husband has also been known to text the greeting to me AS I'm taking to the person.



I have completed 2 Coyle shops where I was given permission to bring my kids (just the 3 little ones as the older 2 were with their dad those weekends)
One was a two night stay at a hotel with NO bar, restaurant or spa/ pool. So the interactions were extremely limited and allowed me to fit in other restaurant shops.

The second one was little narrative but a million pictures. I arrived alone and took the first three hours getting all the room measurements & photos. This was about 90% of the shop. My husband arrived with the kids later. This shop was fine until editing. The guidelines stated you must resize & label all photos to a specific size. I did just that. The editor said she wanted the FULL sized photos with no label, but would not return the report to me so I could upload each one in the proper question. She wanted them emailed. That was a nightmare!

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Impressive! But I'm a single dad, and my 2 daughters go towards me to be entertained or taken care of.

@miamiparis wrote:

Impressive! But I'm a single dad, and my 2 daughters go towards me to be entertained or taken care of.

If you want to mystery shop with kids (and be successful) your children must be fairly self sufficient. At 7 & 9 they really should be able to allow you to interact with an employee without needing you. It's not like you are having an hour long conversation with an employee.

My kids know when I'm speaking to another adult (not just while working) that they need to be quiet and not interrupt. I'm also a mean mom, I'm really strict.

@luckygirl0100 wrote:

My kids know when I'm speaking to another adult (not just while working) that they need to be quiet and not interrupt. I'm also a mean mom, I'm really strict.

Same.

I actually told them that they needed to be on their best behavior whenever the manager was around, or he would be upset and go to the kitchen and cry.

I also told them that if they cried at Disneyland, the Cast Members would send them home immediately. We went every two weeks for 13 years. No crying. This included the toddler ages.

Both very effective tactics in our case. They are both adults now and are very well adjusted and polite humans.

I love it when kids grow up to be humans.

@SoCalMama wrote:

@luckygirl0100 wrote:

My kids know when I'm speaking to another adult (not just while working) that they need to be quiet and not interrupt. I'm also a mean mom, I'm really strict.

Same.

I actually told them that they needed to be on their best behavior whenever the manager was around, or he would be upset and go to the kitchen and cry.

I also told them that if they cried at Disneyland, the Cast Members would send them home immediately. We went every two weeks for 13 years. No crying. This included the toddler ages.

Both very effective tactics in our case. They are both adults now and are very well adjusted and polite humans.

We sit in the front pew during Mass. I have told my children that Father Bertino or Father Ben WILL stop Mass and reprimand them in front of the entire church.... Miraculously they have always been well behaved in church. They have been rewarded by their teachers for such amazing behavior when classmates haven't been so great.