Re: [RPRWG] Time to Reserve your rooms for Montreal
Robert,
we will look into this and see if the room block can be
increased. However, past history has shown us having between
45 and 50 people at the more recent interims and plenaries.
There is a huge downside if we guess high, up until now
there has never been a problem with getting more rooms.
mike
> "Castellano, Robert" wrote:
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> I just called the 800 reservation line and they told me
> the room rate of $179CDN per night is no longer available
> because there are no longer any more rooms available in the block
> at that rate. The next best rate they could provide for the
> IEEE group was $249CDN. My first thought was, why did we only reserve
> 45 rooms in the block for that rate. The turn out for our meetings
> is usually quite a bit higher than that.
>
> Right after finishing with the 800 line, I decided to
> call the hotel directly and see what would happen
> if I made a new reservation with them. I went through
> and booked a 2nd reservation and they immediately gave me
> a room at the $179CDN per night. After finishing with
> the 2nd reservation, I went back and canceled the first.
> The 800 reservations agent could not provide any explanation
> as to why there was a descrepancy in the rates.
> Can you have our meeting coordinators look into this?
>
> RPRWGers - You may want to call the hotel directly if you
> find you are not getting the conference rate.
>
> Mike - It does raise a question in my mind regarding the
> deal we have with this hotel. The hotel should be able
> to guarantee the $179 for whatever number of rooms we
> need up until the reservation deadline of 4/25/03?
>
> If people are not able to get the conference rate, isn't
> that going to discourage people from staying at the
> conference hotel?
>
> thanks,
>
> robert
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Takefman [mailto:tak@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 4:49 PM
> > To: RPRWG
> > Subject: [RPRWG] Time to Reserve your rooms for Montreal
> >
> >
> >
> > RPRWGers,
> >
> > a reminder, please make your room reservations for
> > Montreal ASAP.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > mike
> >
> > --
> > Michael Takefman tak@xxxxxxxxx
> > Manager of Engineering, Cisco Systems
> > Chair IEEE 802.17 Stds WG
> > 2000 Innovation Dr, Ottawa, Canada, K2K 3E8
> > voice: 613-254-3399 cell:613-220-6991
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Chair IEEE 802.17 Stds WG
2000 Innovation Dr, Ottawa, Canada, K2K 3E8
voice: 613-254-3399 cell:613-220-6991