And (since I just booked my SCALE room this past weekend) that's a great rate that beats every advertised rate I was able to find for the LAX Hilton (including all of the discounts I can dig up and using my Hilton HHonors membership - things like PriceLine not included).
However, I ended up *not* booking as part of the block since I am going to be paying this out of pocket and I don't want to add another $30+ onto that rate for internet access and breakfast. The hotel has a rate just $25 above the conference rate that includes both of those. I really wish SCALE had been able to negotiate a rate that at least gave an option of internet access since I will most likely have to do some work from my room while I'm there and consider the hotel's price for wifi to be rather high if I have to purchase it every day. Having chaired a couple of non-tech conventions years ago, this is the challenge: negotiate a rate that makes everyone happy and gets as many people as possible to book your block at the hotel. Whatever you do there are going to be people who won't book it and people who won't be happy with the price. On Jan 9, 2012, at 18:38, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:12 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> SCALE doesn't get hotel rates that are a lot better than LISA (but >> they do seem a bit better) ... > > Just to be specific, the SCALE conference rate at the LAX Hilton is > $109/night. (Compare to $210/night at LISA 2011 at the Boston > Sheraton.) > > Best, > Aleksey -- Dan Rich <[email protected]> | http://www.employees.org/~drich/ | "Step up to red alert!" "Are you sure, sir? | It means changing the bulb in the sign..." | - Red Dwarf (BBC) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
