Do you dream of idling away on a sunny beach in the middle of the winter?
Do you want to meet other food bloggers from all over the world?
Do you want to spend your vacation with me?
Ok, you don’t have to answer that last one. But if you do, I’m going to be a featured participant at Food Blogger Camp, taking place January 9-16th, 2010.
While camp is in session, each day there will be a seminar by my favorite food bloggers, food stylist, and photographers.
Participants include Diane Cu and Todd Porter, Michael and Donna Ruhlman, Matt Armendariz and Adam Pearson, Dianne Jacob, Jaden Hair, and Elise Bauer.
Seminars will include everything from how to style and snap the perfect food shot, what to do when the book agent comes a knockin’ on your door, and plenty of tips to dial up your blog and get the love and respect that you and your blog so richly deserve.
As for extracurricular activities, there will be a walking tour of the colorful Zijuatanejo market, we’ll taste tacos and tequilas, visit a fisherman’s market, and meet with local farmers and talk about their sustainable agricultural practices.
To sign up, visit the Food Blogging Camp booking page.
1. At the bottom of the page, click where it says Click Here to Book
2. Use Login: blogger, Password: 160606, to get the special Food Blogging Camp discount price of $599 to $999 US based on double-occupancy for this all-inclusive trip.
3. There will be a drop-down menu so choose ‘Ixtapa‘, and type in the dates: January 9-16, and 7 days for length of stay. You can come for fewer days, or all of them. (3-day packages are $599.)
The booking page will open showing the discounted price just underneath the regular price. Please note that that price shown will likely be for a single-booking option: the $999 price is based on double-occupancy. There should be a special price shown, which notes that it’s the ‘Food Blogger Camp’ price.
Should you have questions or wish to book, contact 1-888-Web-Club.
Please Note: This post previously contained information about a contest, with a winner chosen from the comments. The contest is now closed and the winner will be notified. Thanks to all for entering!
Not all people shown in the top photo may be participating in the event. That photo was taken from a previous trip.
If you wish to sign up for the trip, you can do so at the links above, or by calling Club Med directly at 1-888-Web-Club
Would love to win. What a great competition!
Sounds like a surefire dream come true!
Oooh, this would be so exciting! Fingers crossed.
What an awesome event — sounds like a dream way to get together with some of the brightest minds in food blogging.
This would be so much fun! Hope to see you there!
This would certainly perk up a dreary winter in Boston – I’d love to win!
I’d love to win. Thanks!
I think my heart just made a few skips….it is really a dream place! I can keep my eyes off of that water…Wow!
it would be amazing to meet and learn from food bloggers such as you, i’m a big fan! my current blog is under construction, but the link is to something i created for a recent foodie inspired vacation.
Sounds like fun.
As a poor food blogger, winning would be a once in a lifetime chance for me. :)
OO! This is so so exciting! I really want to win. I am going to keep my fingers crossed.
a free trip to paradise with the coolest food bloggers around? wow.
A vacation and a food blogger extravaganza all rolled into one? Can’t get much more fun than that!
Count me in on this incredible contest!!
I’ll spend a vacation with you anytime! Hope I win!
You’re fun to vacation with! Count me in.
I would LOVE to come to the food blogger conference in Ixtapa! Just to hear YOU speak!
My bags are ready, you just have to pick me!
um let me think, OK!! I’d love to win a trip!
wow, dreamy
Please put me down for a free trip! This is a wonderful opportunity to learn blogging tips from the cream of the blogging crop. If I win, I’ll buy all of you a drink.
I can’t even imagine anyone NOT having fun with you guys. You folks sound like a great bunch of people to know. :)
Not sure I could ask for a week vacation to go blogging and explain this both to my boss and to my husband, but, hey, what the heck?
Oh man, this look so cool!!!
Sounds great!
Win a trip to hang out with you? Sounds like fun, even though January is not so bad in Arizona — alas we have no beach.
http://penandfork.wordpress.com
Hells YEAH, sign me up!
I read your ‘Sweet Life’ book and just loved it. My sister & her husband were living in Paris near the Bastille for 18 months and when we visited, she took us to some of the same places you mentioned in your book – so much fun!
Thank you for all your hard work on your blog & your books! I, for one, totally appreciate it!
Cheers,
Karla
Sounds totally awesome!
Sounds wonderful! Sign me up for the drawing! :)
As an avid home cook and fledgling food blogger, I’d love to come to this!
Please let it be me…then I can actually learn how to use my new camera!
Wow, that’s a fantastic sweepstakes. I can only imagine the number of comments that’ll be generated. Thanks.
I really wanted to be at the last one, and couldn’t….and dare I say, “pick me, pick me” for this one?
I think each and every one of you are a joy and inspiration to read. Thanks!!
Diane
This sounds like an amazing trip…and I’m thinking about it! Would love to win the trip, though!
Hmmmm… blogging in freezing New York or blogging in sunny paradise? It’s a very tough call…
I think you all will have a fantastic time – again !
I would love this so very much! It sounds so dreamy, and I’d never be able to go on my own at the moment!
Come on universe, be nice to me.
Sounds like a fantastic trip – what a nice idea to let some lucky person share in the fun! Hope I’m the one!
I want it, i want it!!
I wanna go!
i hope you have a great time again!
Well, heck, count me in! I’ll make hubby babysit for a week on his own for a change!!
I’d love to win this contest. I think I deserve a trip far far away from this place (and learn a thing or five while I’m at it, too).
me please…. I’m just getting started at this blogging thing and need all the help I can get!
A group of food bloggers in the tropics? Awesome!
I hope to win! I would LOVE to go! Perfect for a new food blogger!
I sooooo need a vacation without the expenses :-)
What an amazing group of mentors to learn from! Thanks for the opportunity!
You had me at tequila….
Poor student needs a vacation and hasn’t had one since he was 15.
I love that part of Mexico. Hanging with food writers and bloggers is what I do best (other than write and cook). Pick me, pick me (randomly, of course).
Wouldn’t it be lovely!!!
I have no blog, can I come anyway?
Yes, yes, & definitely yes!!! Please pick me!
Sounds great! I’d love to go.
Ooooh I gotta meet that Matt Armendariz and pick his brain!
Ixtapa is fantastic – I worked at that Club Med years ago. I would love to go back and see what it is like and experience life on the “other side”!!! I can tell you the deep dark behind the scenes of everything! Oh what fun it would be!
Lily
oh it looks lovely and no shortage of fun.
Awesome! I follow both your blog/FB and Michael Ruhlman’s blog. I’ve learned so much already, but if I win, it’ll be such a treat.
Count me in for the trip!
Very fun!
What a dream – I will be keeping my fingers crossed!
It would be my dream to meet the bloggers and learn from them!
Thanks for the opportunity!
I would like a free trip. I would like to hang out with the cool kid food bloggers!
This sounds amazing and I’ve been wanting to go to Zihau… please pick me!!!
Sounds like a great excuse to live Vancouver in winter! :)
I promise to keep my stalking of David under control if I win a trip. (No promises).
Wowww! Would love to meet you and the rest of the great food bloggers.
Leaving frigid Minnesota for a warm stay over my birthday with amazing food bloggers? Yes please!!
Mmmmm . . . Ixtapa. There used to be this great place in Zihua near the square that had housemade tortillas every night. I ate dozens of them! I would love to go and eat them again!! (Now, whether I can finagle a week out of the office in January after my Morocco trip next month is a whole other question, but I figure that I can handle it if I am fortunate enough to get to go.)
What a fantastic idea!
me please!
Ooooo….I love contests. Especially when the prize is something valuable (knowledge wise). :)
This sounds like an amazing opportunity to learn from the best food bloggers.
Totally perfect!
The beach in January? What a fine idea!
Hey, Ashley, you stole my post! I too would be leaving Minnesota, although my birthday is a few days after the event. But I still hope to win and meet these great food bloggers.
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! PLEASE! I’m gonna really need it come january and the bitter british weather. And Jaden looks rockin’ in that picture.
I already have two vacations planned before Feb- so winning a third would be great!
Sounds like an amazing trip!
I’m not very pretty in the mornings either.
Will be starting a Cook The Books blog end of October with the Momofuku cookbook.
Wow, who would not want to participate to such an event, it’s so fab!!!
I’d love to win that free spot!
Ooh, sounds like a fun way to start the year!
would love to go! food…beach…sounds like heaven to me.
vamonos!
Woof!
Woah! I’d be completely in awe but what the heck!……please give me the free lottery ticket too. I know the odds are against me ;-)
Club Med ROCKS!
Wow! What a cool event! And, a chance to win? Even better!
Pick me! Pick me!
I need lots of help with photography so this would be perfect!
Sounds like a fun trip!!
this is my entry!
What a fantastic group of food bloggers! Sign me up for the contest
What a fantastic group of food bloggers! Sign me up for the contest
please pick me!