Quote Originally Posted by Riverkilt
Welcome Aboard.

I never did get over there after all, waited too long to reserve a room and the only thing online was over $400 a night. [snip]

One thing that would have helped attendance would have been lodging information about motels nearby (if any). I even emailed some of the committee and they just didn't know anything about motels being locals.

So, a suggestion for next year...if I knew of reasonable priced motels near the venue I just might get off my butt and make a reservation.

You're gonna love this board.

Ron
Ron,

Plenty of rooms are generally available at Motel 6 and equivalent on a weekend when nothing special is happening on the Strip, and nothing was.

I expect that by the time you contacted them they were biting themselves in the back. The number actually involved in the runup was small and they were new to it, "let it be a learning experience" as the saying goes. They worked like Hell, but they trusted people who'd promised to do something to do it and they were unfamiliar with a lot of the resources for bringing off something like this. That's not to say that they totally screwed up, they brought it off with pretty good marks, but with a lot more tsuris than they need have suffered.

Will