-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 1/9/12 9:31 PM, 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).
Thats a clause you can request in your contracts when negotiating. Lowest publicly advertised rate. Otherwise theres no way to get people to actually book in your room block. > 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. SCALE usually arranged for Wifi to be free in our room blocks. But thats OK, as long as you are at the Hilton you are helping us out and will have a great time. We haven't had a need to do it, but hotels have told us in the past they'll be happy to compare guest lists to our attendee lists to help us find attendees outside of our official block. I do not think this is compatible with our privacy policy though, so we have not bothered. > 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. Its tough. For SCALE being in the same city year after year, and working out multi-year agreements with the same hotel has allowed us to negotiate meeting space and guest room pricing that we feel meets almost everyone's needs. Regards, Ilan - -- - -- Join us for SCALE 10x. The 10th Annual Southern California Linux Expo. Jan 20-22, 2012 www.socallinuxexpo.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8L7B0ACgkQ2I1Wy0dd0ohaTgCZAWoT5SqV12S/DLgKCpOF5f8k A/QAnAlsxkcwnY7/08xJeh1/x3XqU8ke =JdlV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/
