Halpern Travel

[Anonymous]

I've seen the "stay-to-play" postings for tournaments that say you HAVE to use Halpern travel or you will get banned from a tournament.

Is that even true? has anyone used Halpern travel, or is that just BS scare tactics

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've seen the "stay-to-play" postings for tournaments that say you HAVE to use Halpern travel or you will get banned from a tournament.

Is that even true? has anyone used Halpern travel, or is that just BS scare tactics

Scare tactics. "We are driving home."

[Anonymous]

We fell for this crap from U9-U11. Then realized the only person who cared was the Team mom/manager. So we started using whatever hotel we wanted/had points with or stayed with friends or drove home. Nothing happened and we saved a ton of money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We fell for this crap from U9-U11. Then realized the only person who cared was the Team mom/manager. So we started using whatever hotel we wanted/had points with or stayed with friends or drove home. Nothing happened and we saved a ton of money.

half of the time i use AirBnB

[Anonymous]

Not specific to Halpern travel, but have had experience with Anthony Travel, which sounds similar: Teams have to pay a fine to the tournament if a certain percentage of a team does not stay in one of the assigned hotels. It is one of the rules when you register for a tournament that has a stay to play policy attached to it. Very common with large showcase tournaments like WAGS, Jeff Cup, where they have many teams traveling in from across the country needing many hotel room blocks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We fell for this crap from U9-U11. Then realized the only person who cared was the Team mom/manager. So we started using whatever hotel we wanted/had points with or stayed with friends or drove home. Nothing happened and we saved a ton of money.

Usually the rule is that at least half the team has to book through the specified travel agency and, contrary to what you think, tournaments DO check where you’re staying. You have to list the hotel in the team information sheet and they DO call you out if the information is false. Tournaments make money from the bookings so they do care. You are lucky that half the families follow the rule so you can afford not to care and make your own arrangements. If it IS close enough (usually less than 100 miles) that you can drive home, you can get an exemption as a team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not specific to Halpern travel, but have had experience with Anthony Travel, which sounds similar: Teams have to pay a fine to the tournament if a certain percentage of a team does not stay in one of the assigned hotels. It is one of the rules when you register for a tournament that has a stay to play policy attached to it. Very common with large showcase tournaments like WAGS, Jeff Cup, where they have many teams traveling in from across the country needing many hotel room blocks.

no you can just say "we're driving home"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We fell for this crap from U9-U11. Then realized the only person who cared was the Team mom/manager. So we started using whatever hotel we wanted/had points with or stayed with friends or drove home. Nothing happened and we saved a ton of money.

Usually the rule is that at least half the team has to book through the specified travel agency and, contrary to what you think, tournaments DO check where you’re staying. You have to list the hotel in the team information sheet and they DO call you out if the information is false. Tournaments make money from the bookings so they do care. You are lucky that half the families follow the rule so you can afford not to care and make your own arrangements. If it IS close enough (usually less than 100 miles) that you can drive home, you can get an exemption as a team.

1. you actually give the tournament a real phone number? weird.
2. you just always tell them "we're driving home"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We fell for this crap from U9-U11. Then realized the only person who cared was the Team mom/manager. So we started using whatever hotel we wanted/had points with or stayed with friends or drove home. Nothing happened and we saved a ton of money.

Usually the rule is that at least half the team has to book through the specified travel agency and, contrary to what you think, tournaments DO check where you’re staying. You have to list the hotel in the team information sheet and they DO call you out if the information is false. Tournaments make money from the bookings so they do care. You are lucky that half the families follow the rule so you can afford not to care and make your own arrangements. If it IS close enough (usually less than 100 miles) that you can drive home, you can get an exemption as a team.

1. you actually give the tournament a real phone number? weird.
2. you just always tell them "we're driving home"

Your TM must love having you on the team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We fell for this crap from U9-U11. Then realized the only person who cared was the Team mom/manager. So we started using whatever hotel we wanted/had points with or stayed with friends or drove home. Nothing happened and we saved a ton of money.

Usually the rule is that at least half the team has to book through the specified travel agency and, contrary to what you think, tournaments DO check where you’re staying. You have to list the hotel in the team information sheet and they DO call you out if the information is false. Tournaments make money from the bookings so they do care. You are lucky that half the families follow the rule so you can afford not to care and make your own arrangements. If it IS close enough (usually less than 100 miles) that you can drive home, you can get an exemption as a team.

1. you actually give the tournament a real phone number? weird.
2. you just always tell them "we're driving home"

Your TM must love having you on the team.

Could you imagine paying $3k a year and trying to befriend the TM?