We Roam’s Death Stranded Its Customers Overseas, With No Refunds

Re:We Roam’s Death Stranded Its Customers Overseas, With No ... by ghaff on Friday December 07, 2018 @04:19PM (#18631782)

I definitely take some trips where my approach is to pick a destination and give someone a credit card number and say "Make it so."

But I got a weird vibe reading this article about effectively "digital nomad as a service" sort of thing.

And, as you say, you're either just a travel agent--in which case, how much value are you actually adding? Or you really are handholding and that requires a lot of feet on the street. (And brings me back to this being some sort of digital nomad as a service with guides. Which is OK I guess. But seems strange.)

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Re:We Roam’s Death Stranded Its Customers Overseas, With No ... by jermaustin1 on Friday December 07, 2018 @04:25PM (#18631839)

It seems like they were the second, each group had 2 employees travelling with them. Which isn't bad especially in countries you might not be familiar with or speak the language.

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Re:We Roam’s Death Stranded Its Customers Overseas, With No ... by ghaff on Friday December 07, 2018 @04:39PM (#18631938)

I get it. I have taken guided trips when I have either not felt comfortable doing it myself, it was complicated/impossible logistically, or I just wanted a group. Something about a guided year-long digital nomad experience just feels odd though.

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