My wife and I won a trip to St. Lucia on Newlywed Game (season 6) this past year. We have yet to take the trip, but it is scheduled for September.
When we won, the prize document I received from gameshowprizes.com separated the value of the hotel stay and the value of the airfare.
The rules very explicitly indicated that the trip was non-transferable, though we did consider (should we have been unable to take the trip), that we might be able to do the following:
-Book the hotel dates directly with the hotel
-Book the flights with the travel agency
-Once the flights are booked, I am instructed to deal directly with the airline
-Cancel the airline flight, which gives us a voucher in the value of the tickets, minus the $250/person change fee, (in our case a total of about $1,000)
-Use this voucher for future personal travel on that airline wherever it flies
In that scenario only could I recoup some sort of alternate value from the trip besides taking the trip itself.
But of course, we instead are going to enjoy a week on the beach! We do have to pay for our airport to hotel transfers, which will be about $125 each way, and it\'s too bad the trip did not include spending money, but beggars can\'t be choosers, right?