Video: Reality TV Show Uncovers Great Restaurants in Cancun, Mexico ...

Video: Reality TV Show Uncovers Great Restaurants in Cancun, Mexico ...

Real People Share their Favorite Places to Eat

CHICAGO, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The hit reality-based TV show Check, Please! has released an online video series covering frequent travelers' and locals' favorite restaurants in Cancun, Mexico at http://www.checkpleasetv.com/. Cancun is Mexico's top tourist destination. Each year millions of people from around the world visit this tropical retreat. They come for the sun, the warm Caribbean waters, the resorts, nightlife and now the food.

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With over 450 restaurants serving everything from local Mexican and Caribbean to a variety of international cuisines, Cancun has become a gastronomical hot spot. If you are planning your next vacation or just learning about interesting places, people and food, you can now view a selection of real people's favorite Cancun restaurants at www.checkpleasetv.com.

"We are bringing the Check, Please! experience to millions of vacationers from around the world who visit Cancun each year," said David Manilow, CEO and Founder of the Emmy-award winning half hour TV program airing in Chicago, San Francisco and Miami. "Travelers can now virtually visit a diverse selection of people's favorite Cancun restaurants online before leaving home. They get to experience the restaurants, from the food to the ambience to the decor. And, they meet the person making the recommendation."

Check, Please! teamed with Apple Vacations to produce the series. "One of the first things people think about when they get to a destination is "Where do we eat?" said Sandy Babin, Vice President of Marketing at Apple Vacations. "We are very excited about this project with Check, Please! We are helping travelers share their favorite dining destinations with one another. It's a great way for Apple to help people have a wonderful vacation experience."

The Cancun series features 10 restaurants that were recommended by travelers and local residents of Cancun. Each video features an interview with the person making the recommendation discussing why they like the restaurant, the food and other aspects of the dining experience. The videos feature the beautiful food and interesting restaurant ambience visuals that exemplify the Check, Please! TV show's high production values.

Visitors to the website www.checkpleasetv.com can view all the videos and soon will be able to post their own reviews and recommendations for their favorite Cancun restaurants.

"Check, Please! videos raise a viewer's appetite, while also giving them a very strong sense of the dining experience and a unique opportunity to see and relate to the person making the recommendation," said Manilow. "With our online destination dining series, Check, Please! now reaches a broad audience with an unlimited number of locations to review."

Restaurants cannot pay to be featured on Check, Please! The only way a restaurant can be covered is if it is recommended. Sponsorship fees paid by consumer goods, travel and media companies that want to reach the Check, Please! dining out audience and make its unique video content available to their customers, support the business.

Check, Please! Background

Check, Please! began airing in Chicago in 2001 on WTTW-TV, the local PBS affiliate. Each week, a diverse group of three regular Chicagoans visit and review each other's recommended restaurants. The program has become the ultimate "word of mouth" guide to all types of eateries, and the extremely positive impact the show has on featured restaurants has been dubbed "The Check, Please! Effect" by restaurant owners. In 2005, Check, Please! Bay Area debuted in San Francisco on the PBS affiliate. The show was an immediate hit and quickly became the largest driver of traffic to the station's website. Check. Please! Chicago has received several local Emmy awards, and the Bay Area show was honored with the prestigious 2007 James Beard Foundation Award for Best Local Television Food Show. The Check, Please! half hour TV show began production in Miami in 2008.

Apple Background

For 40 years, Apple Vacations, America's Favorite Vacation Company, has provided convenient vacation packages from all major U.S. cities to the world's most popular sun destinations. With the support of travel agents, Apple Vacations has delivered more passengers to Mexico and the Dominican Republic than any other North American tour operator and was recently honored with Travel Weekly's Reader's Choice Award for "Best Tour Operator to the Caribbean" as well as "Best Tour Operator to Mexico." For more information, visit www.applevacations.com.

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CONTACT: Li Halpern of Check, Please!, +1-773-620-1289,
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