In a message dated 8/27/2005 11:04:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>happened to have a friend stay at the hotel for three of the days I was >there and he managed to book a suite, as opposed to my room, for around 35 >dollars per night less than I paid? Hotel conference room rates are about as arcane, convoluted, and non-commonsensical as airfares. A hotel will never make all its rooms available for a conference, and is then free to charge whatever it wants for the remaining rooms. I don't know what the SHARE conference people found in their planning, but it may well be that the Sheraton had the lowest convention/conference rates of any large hotel near the Convention Center. And, being that this is a free country that still occasionally allows free markets to function, their lowest conference rate that won the SHARE comparison methodology could even be higher than some individual rooms in the same hotel that they chose not to make available for the conference. And hotels have to charge a high enough rate for conference rooms to allow for a certain predicted percentage of no-shows and last-minute cancellations so that they will still make enough profit to stay in business. Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
