"First Class All the Way" Leaves Us With Nothing Nice to Say

November 4, 2008 at 1:26 PM | by Jenna | Comments (2)

Just when we thought that the cancellation of Do Not Disturb freed us from all hotel-related TV shows for the year, Bravo -- the network that brought us the memorably unmemorable Welcome to the Parker -- is taking a stab at a reality show about luxury travel and the obnoxious people on both sides of the front desk with the new series "First Class All the Way."

From what we can understand, this is another one of those "follow someone with an interesting life around with a camera" type of reality shows, complete with likely-scripted dramatic situations and unnecessarily strong personalities a la Flipping Out, Work Out and, yes, Welcome to the Parker. This time, the cameras and the drama follow Sara Duffy, founder of SRD International, a Los-Angeles based upscale travel concierge business.

According to Bravo:

Billionaires, socialites and entertainment moguls turn to Duffy and her team of travel experts to scour the world in search of the best, most one-of-a-kind experiences. Outrageous demands from their clients are nothing out of the ordinary as her team ensures that there is no mission too great, no corner of the world too remote, and no experience too immense.

Sounds titillating, doesn't it? Yeah, it's not. It's pretty much a moment-by-expensive-moment account of what happens when the real housewives of [insert American city here] hop a jet and go somewhere to spend unfathomable amounts of money -- and on last night's premier episode, that somewhere happened to be Europe (Paris and Monaco, to be exact).

While we admit that we started to watch the episode but couldn't stomach it after a small amount of time (even a friend of HC, who happens to be a travel concierge himself, admitted to flipping the channel after a few minutes of this show), we did stay tuned in long enough to see that Sara and her staffer checked into the InterContinental Paris-Le Grand, while her clients checked into the Ritz Paris. But then there was something about someone losing a passport and the show lost our attention.

Next week's installment of "First Class All the Way" features a couple heading down to Miami to stay at the Setai -- and from what we can tell in the previews, Sara is going down to Miami herself to party at the VIP clubs with her clients. We can't promise any exhaustive recaps, but we'll set our Tivo's, at least.

Did anyone did manage to get through the whole show last night? If so, let us know what you thought of it. Do we smell another Welcome to the Parker on its way to the Bravo graveyard? Or something -- dare we even dream it -- worse?

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real desperate housewives of hollywood go on vacation. yuck. half of those women couldn't even move their faces. not that i have anything against botox, i'm already saving up for it but hopefully i would know when to put the needle down.

I love horrible television in general. This show fits into the small subgroup of horrible television that I just can't sit in front of. This Duffy person is a complete nincompoop. Her clients are hardly elite, and if they're billionaires-- well, they're certainly under the radar-- While I'm sure Jersey has a few billionaires, they're hardly the status quo. These women need to be saved from themselves, and from their travel agent who won't let them have a freaking minute to themselves. Any good person in service takes second footing to her client, and obviously Duffy is more concerned with being the star of a horrible television show than she is with running a business.

I mean, look at her website: http://www.srdinternational.com/

Wtf.

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