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Subject: from Tom Baker at Aquafest Events
From: "tom baker" <tom.baker@...>
Date: Mon, July 06, 2009 4:51 am
To: <bryan@...>
Cc: "tom baker" <tom.baker@...>, "Kelly Murray"
<kelly.murray@...>

 

Good Morning Bryan,

 

It is nice meeting you via email and thank you for helping Brian Greul with his promotion for the POZ Social Group here in Houston.

 

This is the info for the group.  Below is the background on Tom Baker and Aquafest/CruiseCenter.  

Poz Houston Social Support Network Winter Getaway Cruise from $380pp

Join The Poz Houston Social Support Network (Poz Houston) and beat the Winter cold on an exciting 7-night cruise to the Western Caribbean sailing from Galveston, Texas. This cruise departs on January 24, 2010 and offers excellent value on a ship that is revered among the Top 10 in the travel industry. The Voyager of the Seas built in 1999 and completely refurbished in 2009 is one of the largest and most innovative ships in the World. It offers a Royal Promenade mall down the middle of the ship filled with restaurants, shops, and casinos. This ship also has the most spectacular dining room at sea, a world-class ice skating rink with ice shows, skating & more, and the fabled rock climbing wall 23 stories above the sea! This massive and popular Royal Caribbean ship will take guests to the ports of Costa Maya and Cozumel in Mexico where water sports abound, and to the exotic tropical island of Roatan in Honduras.

Along the way, guests of Poz Houston , their friends, and families will enjoy networking, "Friends of Dorothy" get together's and a chance to enjoy fellowship while dining together and sightseeing on excursions in the varied ports-of-call. The value is exception with rates starting at $380 per person for an inside cabin, $540 per person, and spectacular balcony cabins from just $610 per person. Taxes and fees are $238.47 per person additional. A deposit of $250 per person is due at the time of booking to secure a stateroom and the final payment is due on November 1st.

As a bonus value for all Poz Houston guests and travelers, Aquafest, the travel event company hosting the cruise is offering a $100 Onboard Spending Credit per stateroom. This credit can be used to offset any onboard charge and increases the value of this exciting ship and cruise!

To book please contact the booking travel agent, Kelly Murray at Aquafest 1-800-436-5982.  For more information about Poz Houston, please contact Brian Greul at Brian@....  You may also visit these web sites for more details http://www.pozhouston.org/ and http://www.aquafestcruises.com/.

About Tom Baker and Aquafest /CruiseCenter:

 

I am a 25 year travel industry veteran who owns a  company called www.CruiseCenter.com in Houston, Texas. I was awarded the prestigious Conde Nast Traveler Award as "The World's Leading Large Ship Specialist."  I along with two of my employees and colleagues started a GLBT division called Aquafest 8 years ago. We saw a need at the time to provide an affordable alternative to the expensive full ship charters. We have sailed with nearly 9,000 GLBT customers in 24 land and sea events! Our three annual events are advertised on www.AquafestCruises.com . We have evolved from a Halloween theme cruise with heavy entertainment and programming to offering successful land tour programs as well. We just returned from Egypt for 13-days with 25 travelers and are offering China in 2010.

 

Our key to success is to offer affordable options for all travelers. Needless to say, any true custom program requires an event fee to manage the process and to deploy it where it is successful and makes money.  However, we keep prices very reasonable and this has helped Aquafest to be successful and rewarding for the participants.

 

I am also very mindful of offering charitable community support. Aquafest has helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for these organizations:

• The Houston Buyers Club-provides supplements for HIV clients
• Aids Ride Houston
• HRC-Houston Federal Club and major donor
• Assist-Hers- a lesbian run group providing care to aging women
• Susan G. Komen Foundation-Breast Cancer
• Houston GLBT Community Center

My mantra as a businessman has to bring our community together (all genders) in public forums where we travel in a relaxed atmosphere along with the rest of the World to show them mass community that we are okay and not to be feared or hated due to our sexuality. We have actually done this quite successfully on our various travel events. By allowing guests to mingle, many travelers outside our genre are exposed to the GLBT community in a relaxed and sustained manner that allows us to be seen and heard. The positive results have far outnumbered the negative ones.

We have been fortunate to have press in many GLBT publications nationwide and now worldwide due to our unique take on the GLBT Event business.

Nonetheless, we also provide services for many groups within our community for all types of travelers and we are thrilled to invite Poz Houston and Brian on the Voyager of the Seas in January of 2010.

Thank you very much Bryan for your support and know I am here to assist at any time.

Happy 4th!

With warm regards,

Tom Baker

President of Aquafest

1-800-592-3887