Winner 12 October 2009:

The winner of the Europe a la Carte Twitter Competition (2) is Sara of Get Palmd, tweeting as @getpalmd. Sara receives a $100 (US dollar) Hotels.com voucher.

Sara correctly idetified the Twitter background photo location as Rovinj in Croatia.  Below is her tiebreaker answer to the question, “What’s most important to you when selecting a hotel for a leisure stay?”

“I go for price and location, I’m young and don’t mind if it isn’t tip top and luxury, as long as it’s on a decent location (not too far away from the centre of the location, if I’m in a city). Online reviews play a small part, but basically every hotel always have some negative reviews as well (no hotel is 100% perfect), so I don’t look at those too much. If I travel with the dog, then of course pets allowed, and if I am with the car, I want free parking. Needless to say that if breakfast is included, always better ;-)”

I liked Sara’s answer as it illustrates that there is no simple formula to choosing a hotel for a leisure stay, it depends on so many different factors.

The Competition:

The Europe a la Carte Blog Twitter competition (2) launches today. To win you have to do is name the destination in the background photo of my @karenbryan Twitter page. I’ll be giving clues on Twitter during the week to help you work out the background photo location You’ll also need to answer the tiebreaker question.

The destination displayed on the Twitter page background has been written about in the Europe a la Carte Blog. You must leave your answer as a comment on this blog post, also answering the tiebreaker question. The tiebreaker kicks in if either no-one gets the destination correct or if more than one person gives the correct destination. The tiebreaker enables me to choose a winner by judging the most entertaining and/or insightful answer to the tiebreaker question.

The prize:

A Hotels.com voucher for $100 (US dollars). The voucher can be used on any of the prepaid hotels on their website. Depending on which country the winner is from they will be given the equivalent of $100 in their local currency. The winner will be emailed their voucher code and all of the terms and conditions. The voucher is valid for approximately 10 months.

How to enter:

1 Click through to @karenbryan Twitter page.

2 Decide on the location (the town or city) of the background photo.. Follow me on Twitter @karenbryan for some more clues during the week. To follow me you need to clicking on the Follow button just under my the small photo of me at the top left of my Twitter page.

3 Return to this blog post and write a comment with the name of the location in the Twitter background photo and the answer to the question, “What’s most important to you when selecting a hotel for a leisure stay?”

Exclusions:

Members of the Europe a la Carte blogging team can’t enter the competition (as they can read the comments in blog admin).

Closing date:

Competition entries by blog comment must be made by midnight British Summer Time on Sunday 11 October 2009.

Good Luck and look our for some more great prizes in future Europe a la Carte Twitter competitions.