School of Wizardry

The HP Fan Trips™ School of Wizardry at Ford’s Castle in England has just ended and I understand from the professors that everyone graduated with high marks! The dungeon was put to good use for potions and storytelling, the vast castle grounds provided a great class room for herbology and for our very popular wizarding game, and surprise deliveries were received by many students. Wizarding Wilson, who attended this summer’s school, documented his experience with a video. Check back at http://www.hpfantrips.com/ to see what Wilson had to say about his time at summer school. Until then, have a magical summer! Jeannie

Washington, more research for Twilight Fan Trips

Another three days in Washington in the Olympic Peninsula, La Push, the Quileute Reservation and Forks meeting with people, hiking through forests, investigating locations. Love my job!

Then the hard work begins when I get back to the office. Sifting through all of the information, choosing the best of the best to create the perfect fan tour. Keep those comments and suggestions coming; we review all of them when developing trips.

Checking out Portland for Twilight Fan Trips

Portland is a fantastic city with a great funky edge to it. No wonder the cast and crew were delighted to settle down and unusually stay in one place for much of the filming. I have three full days ahead of me to research locations, hike around the lush vegetation of the Columbia River Gorge, inspect hotels, and sample lots of restaurants – what could be better!

Twilight Fan Trips

My first night in Portland, Oregon – where the majority of film locations are located for Twilight. I am so excited to start working on the trip designs for Twilight Fan Trips™. After our very bright administrative assistant handed me Twilight to read on my family’s vacation, I have read the entire series (to date), read all the official and fan websites, have been speaking with fans and fan webmasters, researching locations…………basically immersing myself in this new fantasy world.

Quest Winners

The winners of the HP Fan Trips™ Quest have just been announced with winners coming from 5 countries and from all over the United States! Grab your HP Fan Trips™ Tribune (links are on the www.hpfantrips.com website) to find a complete list of winners. It has been an amazing 7 weeks for the Quest, Wizarding Wilson received more calls to his cell phone than at any other point in history, Wilson’s YouTube video won several awards, a week’s starting clue was revealed and solved on MuggleNet’s podcast and we shipped out dozens of surprise packages with hidden clues during the contest. Our moderators were kept very busy! Thanks to everyone who participated and to all those fans and staff who gave so much of their time to making our first online treasure hunt a success! Wow! Jeannie (aka Quest Headmaster)

HP Fan Trips™ Quest

Today we launched our first online treasure hunt with the HP Fan Trips™ Quest and I am blown away with the response you, the fans, have shown! Your excitement, the number of posts to the forums and the number of hours fans have devoted to solving the Quest is off the charts. We are now looking at hiring many more forum moderators so let us know if you are interested because we have to let our Quest Master get back to work with designing more clues. Please respond on the HP Fan Trips™ Quest forum to apply.

February 9, 2008 About.com Europe Travel

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