Posted on 03/24/2009 1:57:53 PM PDT by Roos_Girl
Hey y'all,
I am in the process of negotiating with the Gaylord Palms hotel to hold our Freeper Convention there on April 25. We can get a rate of $99 per night (which is a great rate for this really nice hotel) and the convention room will be complimentary.
For that rate they are asking for us to block a minimum of 40 rooms; if some people are staying both Friday and Saturday nights that would count as 2 rooms. The contract will be written such that if all 40 rooms are not picked up we would have to pay the difference. So, for example, if only 10 rooms were actually reserved the person signing the contract (me) would owe them $2970. I told them those terms were not acceptable, but they seem to be willing to work out some other terms if I can get them a firm number on how many guest rooms will be reserved.
Please mail me by Friday, 3/27/09, and let me know if you will be staying at the hotel and for how many nights. Without getting committments from you I feel uncomfortable agreeing to even 10 rooms, though I hope we have a better showing than that!
The convention will be on April 25, a Saturday, from 8am to 6pm. Room reservations for Friday and Saturday will count towards our minimum number required.
See our continuing thread here. All future posts and information regarding the Convention will be there. Make sure to bookmark it; come on, all the cool kids are doing it!
suggestion...when I saw We’ve moved! I thought the hotel location had changed...you might want to clarify the bold with something like: We’ve moved the thread!
Yes, we’ve only moved the thread, not the location of the convention.
Some people are just so dang picky. ;)
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