DC4MS

Here is an interesting article from the LA Times Travel Blog

'Survivor' creator and Jeffrey Katzenberg tour India - Travel - LATimes.com

They didn’t eat squirmy worms or sleep under lean-tos. But Mark Burnett, the reality TV impressario behind “Survivor,” and Jeffrey Katzenberg, chief executive of DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., had a swell time anyway touring India together. After all, their guide was Geoffrey Kent, chairman and chief executive of Abercrombie & Kent, the luxury travel company.

Kent, in the Los Angeles area this week to promote his company’s new destination club for the super-rich, told me he spent more than a week in India in April with the duo, along with their wives, Mark’s Roma and Jeffrey’s Marilyn.

“I always wanted to show Jeffrey and Mark tigers,” Kent said, after pausing in his Beverly Hills Hotel suite to take a call from Katzenberg, a longtime friend. And see tigers they did: at least half a dozen, by Kent’s count, at Ranthambore National Park. “They were magnificent,” Kent said.

Talk about a royal tour. The group chatted with maharajahs and stayed at swank retreats, such as the storied Taj Lake Palace in Udaipur (pictured), that Kent rated “six-star.”

Along the way, Kent said, “We made a lot of jokes about how you travel with Abercrombie & Kent versus how you travel with ‘Survivor.’ ”

–Jane Engle, Los Angeles Times Assistant Travel Editor

Kagehitokiri

i wonder which property they stayed at - aman-i-khas or oberoi vanyavilas. considering this report from aman-i-khas, i would have a hard time paying A&K (kent himself ) for an escort there. >
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TarheelTraveler

Nice find, DC4MS. That would be quite an experience. Geoffrey Kent is very involved with the Residence Club. As a sidenote, when we were staying at the A&K Kiawah house recently, we flipped open the guest comment book and noticed that he was the prior guest. He's been traveling to the various properties/destinations making sure that they meet his/A&K's standards and expectations.

Kagehitokiri

:thumbsup: