RE: Hotels for Common in San Diego...

[Eric Kempter <eric.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Has anyone tried priceline.com ?

Thank you,

Eric Kempter
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* Eric.Kempter@robertmondavi.com



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> From: Jon.Paris@halinfo.it [SMTP:Jon.Paris@halinfo.it]
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 8:40 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Hotels for Common in San Diego...
> 
> 
> 
>  >> Does the prices for the Common Hotels include the Common attendee 
>discount?
> 
> (Don the comment for you is at the end if you don't wanna read my ranting)
> 
> Sorry Darlene but regardless of what the brochures may hint/say - the hotel
> prices for COMMON (or for that matter most any other conference) very rarely
> offer any kind of discount - the price may be lower than that posted on the 
>back
> of the room's door, but that's not saying much in California.
> 
> In fact it is not uncommon <groan> for the prices to be higher than you would
> normally pay.  For example when I worked with IBM our corporate rate at the
> Anaheim Marriott was something like $85 a night - but when we stayed there for
> COMMON it went up to about $150.
> 
> Reason is the conference fee you pay would not cover all the expenses of the
> conference if they had to pay full price for all the meeting rooms.  The hotel
> either "gives away" or significantly discounts the cost of the meeting rooms 
>in
> exchange for the conference guaranteeing a number of rooms at the inflated
> conference rate.  This is why conferences like COMMON try to get as many of
> their conferences into hotel facilities rather than use Convention Centers - 
>or
> at least (as in the case of San Antonio and San Diego) do a mixture of the 
>two.
> 
> Even if you try to book directly with the hotel they will charge you the 
>higher
> rate unless you lie about attending the conference.  I've even known hotels
> refuse to honor the original agreed rate when they found that the guest was
> going to the conference!
> 
> This is why Don is looking for non-conference hotels in the area.  If I 
>remember
> correctly though - unless you don't mind a significant journey, there is not a
> lot of choice in the area of the Marina where the San Diego Convention Center 
>is
> based.  There are several condo properties close at hand, so a company that
> rents vacation condos might be worth checking out.
> 
> 
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