It is fair to add in the cost of Internet access (although at SCALE we do
provide free wireless in the conference areas, it hasn't been reasonable
to get it included in the rooms so far)
David Lang
On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Daniel Rich wrote:
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
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