Re: COMMON 2008

Again, this has been talked about endlessly. At a conference location, a
block of rooms is agreed upon. This helps reduce the room rate from the
regular room rates. If COMMON does not fill that block, then the conference
location requires a penalty to be paid. This is standard practice in the
conference industry.

COMMON adds a charge to registration if you are not going to be helping them
fill that block. I am sure they could get a smaller block of rooms, but then
you would all be complaining even more about the higher room rate. If you
choose to stay in a room that does not help resolve the block requirement
and keep the room rate lower than the usual room rate, then you incur the
additional charge.

If you work it out, it is most often cheaper to pay the conference room rate
than the penalty and a lower rate somewhere else. Unless you like
cockroaches - Don is a bug collector, so he saves money!







On 8/23/07 12:16 PM, "Don" <dr2@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Absolutely.



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Subject: RE: COMMON 2008

I believe there is an additional charge for registration if you choose
not to stay at the conference hotel... Right?

Kenneth