Go With Oh Apartment in Vienna
It's been a while since we've done a giveaway on our blog which makes me sad because I love giving you guys free stuff from great companies. So, when Go With Oh contacted me to let me know about their new contests, I jumped at the chance to score you guys a free stay at one of their apartments. People, I love this company and you should, too.
I'll tell you more about why I think you should be using Go With Oh below but, if you're in a hurry, here's the scoop. There are three ways that you can win money to stay at a Go With Oh apartment in any of their ten European locations:
- put in an entry on our site to win 200 Euros toward one of their apartments - the entry form is below and there are LOTS of ways that you can enter
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fill out the Go With Oh Facebook entry form to win
500 Euros
to be a Guest Tester
- and, if you are a blogger, you can enter the blogger competition to be a Guest Tester, and win 1000 Euros toward a stay
All of these contests end on October 31, 2013 , so there are a lot of ways to win money in the next week.
A quick look at our Go With Oh Vienna apartment
Last year, we stayed with them for three days in Venice and for three days in Vienna. After a brief perusal through their website, I knew that we were going to love working with them.
You see, one of the strange things about traveling is that we never know exactly where we're going to live. When you buy a house or rent an apartment, ordinarily, you tour the place, you look around for lots of options, and you think about whether this is the exact spot you want to live. When we travel, on the other hand, we pick hotels or vacation homes based on often outdated pictures and web reviews. Until we get there, we never know exactly what we're going to get.
Sometimes, the new apartments work out really well. But, then again, there are the other times . . . . There were the two weeks in Prague where the bathroom continually filled with water. And the month in Istanbul with the kitchen that looked like it hadn't been cleaned in years: my mom and I got down onto our hands and knees to clean it to make it moderately liveable. There was the hostel in Lampang, Thailand, where I was afraid to sleep in the bed because of the thick stains all across the sheets and the flock of spiders living in the ceiling fan above the bed.
Go With Oh floorplan
So, what I loved about the Go With Oh site is that every single one of their properties has professional pictures and a to scale floorplan included, plus places for people to write in reviews. A floorplan! Professional pictures! I didn't have to pore through murky underexposed photos to figure out whether the kitchen had a microwave and an oven or run Google Map searches to determine whether there was a park nearby. At last, I had found a vacation rental site that actually provided all of the information I needed to make a completely informed decision about their apartment in one place. Revolutionary!
And, in both Vienna and Venice, our apartments almost perfectly matched the website description. (The only problem we had in Vienna was that the laundry machine did not work but there was a nearby laundromat with great facilities.)
Standing outside the apartment
We were very happy with our stays in both Vienna and Venice and I think you will be, too. If you're still with me, here are the three ways that you can win a voucher to stay at one of the Oh properties:
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fill out the Go With Oh Facebook entry form to win
500 Euros
to be a Guest Tester
- if you are a blogger, you can enter the blogger competition to be a Guest Tester, and win 1000 Euros toward a stay
- or, fill out the entry form below for a chance to win 200 Euros on our site. You MUST comment on this post about which Go With Oh apartment you would like to stay in. You can see their selection of apartments here. You can earn additional entries by liking The Road Forks Facebook page , the Go With Oh Facebook page , or tweeting about this giveaway (and you can tweet about the giveaway once a day until the giveaway ends.)
