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Well thankyouverymuch for the praise! as well as a big welcome to the forum. If you see me in NYC I will certainly NOT be walking since I have yet to do all my Christmas shopping. I will be sprinting from one store to another with the look of an olympic athlete on my face ready to buy yet another thoughtful yet useless gift.

Hey GirL!

Oh you did not plan that Maui vacation right. Here's what I always suggest: go for at least two months and return back home when the first buds are about to bloom. Impractical yes, Great advice surely. What did you do in Maui and how long were you there?

I have to leave the forum prematurely due to Bloomingdales opening their doors in twenty minutes! I will be back on tonight (with a strong martini in my frazzled shopped-out -why do -I -do- this -to -myself -every- year -hand)

Heya, Sam!
What are we doing up so early on a weekend?
Again, cosmic-snychronicity...
Just happened to check your site while you're actually back on and posting again!

I had been thinking of you a couple months ago. I was flown out to LA to film an infomercial for new children's books. They needed someone to host the show. I wanted to contact you! But I know you've been busy out there hotel hoppin'it around. So they ended up getting Cathy Rigby...which was distracting for me cause all I could think of was stay-free maxi pads.

Good to see ya back sista!
Love ya,
Kathy

Hey there Sam...hope your day was not too stressful with all those sane people who do not leave their shopping until Dec 21...We are heading down to Marshall Fields today for much the same crowd...then to see the lights on Michigan avenue. Very Christmasy.

I was in Maui for 10 days - in Wailea. Gosh it was beautiful. We used to plan a yearly winter trip to Disney, but I may have to change that tradition! We did some sailing and snorkeling. Spent a day on Lanai. Went parasailing...Awesome! And of course a Luau and the sunrise on Haleakala.

It was amazing.

Have a good day and I'll look forward to hearing from you later!!!

Kel

Hi, this is my first post. I watch your program pretty much all day (I work in an elctronics store in downtown NY, so im surrounded by tv's all day). I love all the great info that you provide about every hotel. My wife and I are avid travelers, so your show is a big help to me. Just a question, ever been to El Conquistador in Puerto Rico, that's an awesome hotel!!

Well you're in the best place to be for shopping. I only hope you made it past the Godiva Shop!!
All the best to you and yours.

Sam, the Mickey's Merry Christmas at Walt Disney World show was absolutely over the top. We loved the photography and you covered it in such detail we felt like we were there. This event is now on our future plans for a holiday vacation as we didn't realize how wonderful it was.
Thanks for bringing The Mouse at Christmas to our attention.

For the third season I would really like it if you could try and do an episode on The Atlantis Hotel in the Bahamas. It is such a wonderful hotel and you don't even have to leave the hotel to do something. I went there not to long ago and I am still realy amused with the room in the arch. Could you please do a show on there. If so tell me when it will air ansd wht time.

thank you very much

Hey Sam

I just wanted to recommend one place that I think you'd love, and that the Travel Channel ought to consider - The Inn at Blackberry Farm (just outside of Knoxville, Tennessee).

I'd never been to that part of the country, but the Great Smokies are really beautiful, and the Inn pampers you to no end. You can go horseback riding, indulge in spa treatments (which I know you love - I had the Blackberry treatment, which was wonderful), hang out by the pool, or just relax. You can also take a mini golf-cart and zip around the beautiful property - now that's fun! As for the food, it's to die for. I'd never had biscuits and gravy before (you can't get this kind of southern food in NY -pizza, yes. hot dogs, yes. Soul food? No way.), but there it was on the breakfast menu, along with other yummy items. For lunch, the Inn packs a box lunch, but believe me, it is not the box lunch of camp days. We're talking gourmet meals that include dessert...wow. Dinner is fabulous, and afterwards, guests gather outside by the fireplace for stories and s'mores. I became an honorary southerner down there; most guests were from Alabama, Georgia, or elsewhere in the south. I may have been the lone Yankee! In any case, they nicknamed me Scarlett.

I had mentioned Charleston in my previous post, but I think I left out a few things. It really is a friendly city; strangers on the street said hello to me in passing, and that was wonderful, and surprising. I visited the CSS Hunley, the Confederate sub that was recently discovered, and which is being restored. As they found skeletons (and personal items) from the crew, a burial (which has since taken place) was scheduled to be held. Until then, "Confederate" soldiers stood guard in shifts out of respect for their ancestors, and I ran into a couple of them in the parking lot. They kissed my hand, and I was pretty floored. How gallant is that? Of course, one of them had a car horn that toots Dixie! Sigh......Charleston also a beautiful, beautiful city..situated right on the water.

Sorry if I repeated myself, but I can't rave enough about this Southern Belle, and I hope you get a chance to visit.

thanks, Sam!

You are so much fun to watch. We would really like to see you do more on cruiseing. Highlighting more individual ships. There are so many of them out there now. We cruise a couple of times a year and when we are not cruising are planning, reading about or talking about cruising. you bring so much to the travel industy and I know your veiws on cruising would be a whole lot of fun. Thanks again for all the laughs you bring into our home.

Samantha,

I posted a topic in one of the other choices for the directors on you doing a show in Myrtle Beach, SC. Basically, I ponder why you haven't done a show there that I can recall? I have been a fan of you and your show for over 3 years now. I watch it more than any show.

You are a very bubbly, charming and equisitly beautiful woman...adding all that to Myrtle Beach could really make for a great show. There is too many things to do there so you never would run out of ideas. If you go, you have to visit "The Sea Captains" restaurant on 30th Ave North Ocean Blvd. Without a doubt, the best restaurant in MB.

Broadway On The Beach is the best place to shop. Golfing only one can dream about. Not to mention gambling cruises and water functions of all kinds. 60 miles of coast to add to that (At least last time I heard).

I am sure you could do many interesting things there and it would be a hit. Plus, I would love to have a chance to actually meet you in person.

Have a great holiday, Sam! Merry Christmas.

Gary Chandler

Hey there!

I was looking for some information on the Bacara resort (I only caught the back end of the show)and saw this here, and thought I might drop in to say hello.

In reading many of the posts here, it seems you have quite a following of men that would like to meet you. I guess this is somewhat encouraged by no mention of a significant other on your show or interviews.

So my idea is to do a bachelorette (which is a rather tired word of late) type of show that would give you a pick of a number of carefully screened gentlemen competing for your heart! It would be great TV too, as you could both steal away by private jet to various interesting locations. Each romantic candidate could seek to impress you by planning a travel excursion for you both...etc.

If it worked out, there could be a special that covers your wedding at the location of your choice, which would be sure to bring in plenty of wedding business for that resort, hotel...etc.

As this is my idea, I would of course like to be the first to sign up!

Scott
Orlando, FL

"As I went down the hill along the wall
There was a gate I had leaned at for a view
And had just turned from when I first saw you
As you came up the the hill. We met. But all
We did that day was mingle great and small
Footprints in summer dust as if we drew
The figure of our being less than two
But more more than one as yet. Your parasol
Pointed the decimal off with one deep thrust.
And all the time we talked you seemed to see
Something down there to smile at in the dust.
(Oh, it was without prejudice to me!)
Afterward I went past what you had passed
Before we met, and you what I had passed."

Robert

Samantha, thank you sooooo much for replying to me. I cannot believe it!! You are so nice to reply to all the people. You are truely a great person. Not to mention Beautiful. Where could I go to spot you in NYC? I don't mean to go and search for you but I'd love to meet you in person and tell you how great job you are doing and being so nice to everyone here in forum. I watched the re-run of Disney Holiday Special again, I love Disney World, and I love you!! I love watching you do the show and being so funny and looking gorgeous. I really like your voice, too. ok... I guess I'm starting sounds like "Mr.Obsessed to Sam Brown"!! Thanks again Samantha and hope to see you in the streets of NYC!! By the way, do you ever come out to Long Island??

Samsnewfan

I believe that would be Samantha Brown, but I dont think its the same lady. There is a writer and artist named Samantha Brown, but not the same person.

Don't play Trivial Pursuit with me.

OK...what do I win?

The question is more for Sam herself.
Ask her, she should know who it is.

Robert

well i guess i spoke wrong i have always been a fan of the show its that the new season i have only seen the one during the teaching season it hard. im sorry if you took it that i was a first time watcher. i guess o now that i have some time over vaction ill get caught back up. thank you for responding but maybe you are right i dont belong on this forum with all the big fans

i have been enjoying your new great hotel and seasonal specials. i love the one in new york where you were a rockette for a day. i am short too, but have been a dancer for most of my life, but failed to meet the rockettes required height. but you go girl!!! and i love the disney special where you get to go behind the scenes.

i got to go to disneyworld on my honeymoon. it was my first time. and i loved it. i am a huge fan and i would love a autographed picture. if you have the time.

i hope you enjoy you holidays with your family.
and i look forward to seeing more of great hotels
: )

sharon
in addison, tx

Sam,

I have been on a mad search to find a place I could write to you on the show for an autographed picture of yourself. I have had no success in my search. I would love for your face to adorn my wall in my computer room where I would see you everyday.

I am an artist and would love to draw your face (pencil only, I don't paint). I could send it back to whatever address you provide me for writing to you. I just hope you get it if I do it. I can draw you to perfection, just as you are.

I posted a reply earlier before your shopping trip to Bloomingdale's. Hope you had a "fab" time shopping.

Your biggest fan...Gary Chandler

Just wanted to let you know that we think you're great and to wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
We would LOVE it if you could do some of the cheaper, meaning Moderate or Value Resorts that Disney has to offer. Not everyone can afford the more Deluxe Resorts - and this may help us decide which one to go to.
Let us know what you think.
Thanks

May I remind you, Sam, in your time of pre-holiday panic, that you undoubtedly have quite a stockpile in a warehouse somewhere of fine toiletries that you have been collecting. Attractively arranged in a nice basket with a few marshmallows on the side, who could be displeased with such a gift? Probably it’s too late for that, now that you have spent all your money today. If you are strapped for cash later you could always autograph some shampoo bottles and sell them on e-bay for a good price, for all those fans in need of GH merchandise.
The members of the fan club here seem to be on a bit of a roll, coming up with all sorts of insanely creative ideas. Probably all giddy with the expectation of the Great Hotels Marathon, which will be coming our way on Tuesday. So, I suppose it is a fine time to toss in my crazy idea, as well.
In London, there are quite a few wacky musicals playing such as “Jerry Springer, the Opera,” and “Rod Stewart, the Musical.” I went to seven of them, and had musicals on my mind one day when I was stuck in heavy traffic on a double-decker bus for over an hour in the West End. The idea just flew into my head. May I be the first to propose…. “Great Hotels, the Musical,” starring Samantha Brown! Imagine yourself, backed up on a stage by a chorus of cart-rolling chambermaids, belting out these lines, to the tune of “The Bare Necessities” from Disney’s “Jungle Book” movie:

Look for those special toiletries, those pricey scented toiletries,
Forget about your bringin’ them from home.
Pack up those great amenities, and then your mind can rest at ease,
You’ll never buy shampoo for the rest of your life.
Whenever you wander, wherever you roam,
Just leave your bath things on a shelf at home.
Your hotel’s hopin’ just to please and you can have them all for free,
So the towels must stay, theft’s not O.K., but take those soaps and lotions, I say,
Those hotel toiletries for sure, belong to you. Oh yes they do. It’s really true.

Sorry. It’s a pretty lame idea, and song. Comes from reading Mad Magazine for over 45 years, I think. Maybe you can sing it to your Mom and she will remember when you were 6 and be proud of how far you have come in life.

And speaking of the theatre, I want Captain Tuttle to know that I did indeed go to the recreated Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and lean against the stage as a groundling on Dec. 3rd at 7 pm, and paid nothing to do so. It was very cold in there, what with the open roof and all, and the performers were 27 Syracuse University drama students performing eight scenes from five Shakespearian plays, including “Twelfth Night”, which I unfortunately did not see in October. Sam, you may remember Professor Ingram, who arranged for the students to study there this fall with the Globe’s voice, text and movement faculty. They were a wonderful, talented group. Captain, I did enjoy “Julius Caesar” there in 1999, but had a seat on a bench. So, that is one thing I can check off your list. And do come back to brighten Sam’s day and everyone else’s, as well. Must get back to my wrapping…


May I remind you, Sam, in your time of pre-holiday panic, that you undoubtedly have quite a stockpile in a warehouse somewhere of fine toiletries that you have been collecting. Attractively arranged in a nice basket with a few marshmallows on the side, who could be displeased with such a gift? Probably it’s too late for that, now that you have spent all your money today. If you are strapped for cash later you could always autograph some shampoo bottles and sell them on e-bay for a good price, for all those fans in need of GH merchandise.
The members of the fan club here seem to be on a bit of a roll, coming up with all sorts of insanely creative ideas. Probably all giddy with the expectation of the Great Hotels Marathon, which will be coming our way on Tuesday. So, I suppose it is a fine time to toss in my crazy idea, as well.
In London, there are quite a few wacky musicals playing such as “Jerry Springer, the Opera,” and “Rod Stewart, the Musical.” I went to seven of them, and had musicals on my mind one day when I was stuck in heavy traffic on a double-decker bus for over an hour in the West End. The idea just flew into my head. May I be the first to propose…. “Great Hotels, the Musical,” starring Samantha Brown! Imagine yourself, backed up on a stage by a chorus of cart-rolling chambermaids, belting out these lines, to the tune of “The Bare Necessities” from Disney’s “Jungle Book” movie:

Look for those special toiletries, those pricey scented toiletries,
Forget about your bringin’ them from home.
Pack up those great amenities, and then your mind can rest at ease,
You’ll never buy shampoo for the rest of your life.
Whenever you wander, wherever you roam,
Just leave your bath things on a shelf at home.
Your hotel’s hopin’ just to please and you can have them all for free,
So the towels must stay, theft’s not O.K., but take those soaps and lotions, I say,
Those hotel toiletries for sure, belong to you. Oh yes they do. It’s really true.

Sorry. It’s a pretty lame idea, and song. Comes from reading Mad Magazine for over 45 years, I think. Maybe you can sing it to your Mom and she will remember when you were 6 and be proud of how far you have come in life.

And speaking of the theatre, I want Captain Tuttle to know that I did indeed go to the recreated Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and lean against the stage as a groundling on Dec. 3rd at 7 pm, and paid nothing to do so. It was very cold in there, what with the open roof and all, and the performers were 27 Syracuse University drama students performing eight scenes from five Shakespearian plays, including “Twelfth Night”, which I unfortunately did not see in October. Sam, you may remember Professor Ingram, who arranged for the students to study there this fall with the Globe’s voice, text and movement faculty. They were a wonderful, talented group. Captain, I did enjoy “Julius Caesar” there in 1999, but had a seat on a bench. So, that is one thing I can check off your list. And do come back to brighten Sam’s day and everyone else’s, as well. Must get back to my wrapping…

Hey Sam, you knew I would stick my nose in here at some point I have been looking for new episodes of GH but the only one I have seen to date is the Costonoa one. That really seemed like my kind of place to vacation and I read that it was one of your favorites too.By the way you look darn cute in a ballcap! Well,I'm still contemplating wrapping gifts,it's just not something a guy is supposed to know how to do Anyway have a great Christmas and I hope Santa is good to you!!

I love the idea of the special on the moderate and value resorts! Of course, I love any idea that'll get Great Hotels filming down there while I'm down there :-)

I think it'd be great to do right now with Pop Century opening up this month, you could spotlight a brand new resort!

Another suggest I have, if this idea goes through, is to highlight the lesser-known treasures of Disney World. For instance, did you know about the mini golf courses? There's Fantasia Gardens and Winter Summerland. Winter Summerland, right next to Blizzard Beach (which you should also spotlight) is my favorite. It would've been great for the Christmas special, but there was way too much already going on to fit that in. The course's theme is Santa on summer vacation, you choose either the winter or the summer course. The winter course is the North Pole, and the summer course is Santa and the elves at the beach. They also play summery Christmas music, like stuff by Jimmy Buffett or the Beach Boys.

You could also show off Pleasure Island, maybe take a stop in at the Comedy Warehouse, my favorite place. Pleasure Island isn't exactly unknown, but it's definitly not featured as much as the resorts and parks are. There's also DisneyQuest, which would be great for you to visit, it's all virtual reality kinda games.

So, come on, Sam, do it! "Disney on a Budget" and "Hidden Disney". It'll be great!

By the way, do you happen to have any idea of what the front desk cast members at Yacht & Beach wear? I'm dreading what hideous costume they will put me in!!!!

I don't know what happened up there with the double post. mod kelly HELP! You can delete that second one if it is within your power. It looks like the longest post in forum history.
Captuttle, could you please let us know how the gracious tulip poplars on the Little Mountain fared in the storm of Sept. 17 ?