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Gilt Groupe's Travel Sample Sales Focus on NYC with Launch of 'Gilt City'

April 28, 2010 at 12:05 PM | by | Comment (1)

Chain up your credit cards, because Gilt Groupe—the members-only luxury sample sale site that offers deals on everything from Alexander McQueen dresses to vacations in the Maldives—is getting bigger. Please welcome Gilt City into the fold, their Groupon-like site for purchasing dining deals and experiences for a fraction of their price. Currently it's only focused on New York City, but as more people find out about it and sell out deals like this week's dinner for two at Rouge Tomate, we expect the cities will expand.

We've talked about Gilt and their travel sample sale site Jetsetter.com a fair bit here at Jaunted, and there's a good reason: they've created a whole new way to browse and shop for deals. It's a completely curated system that doesn't inundate you with too much choice and too little information. Several sales per week whip buyers into a frenzy and similarly educate about the hotels or designer fashion labels. We like it.

And now that Jetsetter has a direct competitor in the newly-launched Vacationist.com, Gilt is upping the ante with Gilt City.

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Will We See First Class Airfare On Sale At Jetsetter.com In The Future?

December 2, 2009 at 9:29 AM | by | Comments (0)

Have you come around to travel sample sales yet? If you've checked out the newish site Jetsetter.com, or even better yet, scored a luxury hotel stay from it, then you're in danger of becoming addicted to the newest way to purchase travel online.

Since they launched in Beta at the end of September, we've kept a daily eye to their members-only (join here) "sample sales" of five-star hotel rooms and suites from around the world, not to mention the occasional cruise. For us, the turning point—which makes us think them a burgeoning success story like their parent site, Gilt.com—is when they featured rooms at Paris' storied Hôtel de Crillon for hundreds off the rack rate.

So last night, at their official launch party in the penthouse of New York City's Hotel on Rivington, we set out to see just how well they are doing, and what juicy plans they're forming for the future...

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Are Vacation Sample Sales In Our Future? Gilt.com Hints At New Site

July 24, 2009 at 9:39 AM | by | Comments (4)

Update 08/11: Racked.com reports that the new site is called "Jetsetter" and is accepting pre-launch sign-ups here.

Could we be on the verge of purchasing travel in an entirely new way? If the founders of the uber-successful upscale sample sale website Gilt Groupe have anything to say about it, choosing and purchasing your vacation will become an adrenaline-fueled, timed transaction that mimics the way their fashion site works now.

We just happened to be at last night's Racked.com panel discussion on the future of retail, where Alexandra Wilkis Wilson of Gilt divulged their plans to move beyond selling discounted designer clothing overstock and into the world of selling hotel rooms, vacation home rentals, and trip packages. They will be luxe, of course, and "ski chalets" were especially named.

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