Re: Congrads John Earl!

Room rates vary wildly from region to region and season to season.

Planning a convntion in a place that has typical room rates of $200/night is
destined to be expensive for food and every other service as well.  

There are lots of desirable places to hold a conference of 2000 to 5000
souls without going into the luxury resort spots.
 
 
 
 
 
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 14:28:47
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Congrads John Earl!
 
Mark,
 
> Although I haven't checked very recently, I think that you can get rooms
>or suites for 100-150 / night w/o too much difficulty. So staying at
>Common hotels and paying rack rates means that the member is volunteering
>to subsidize Common's coffers "over and above the call of duty." That's
>probably unacceptable for independents.
 
Finding cheaper room rates is not necessarily the answer in the big picture.
Without enough people staying at the hosting convention facilities, COMMON
would
not get "free" use of the meeting rooms. Convention meeting rooms can get
VERY
expensive when rented without accomodations too, and so then I suspect the
cost
of the conference itself would have to be raised substantially so that you
could
choose your own lodging.
 
If attendance is high enough the conference gets the miniumum number of
guest
rooms filled to avoid surcharges, than when others stay elsewhere it does
not
impact the overall cost. But they would have to be the exception rather than
rule to avoid being charged for the use of the meeting rooms too.
 
As I understand how that industry works...
 
Doug
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