Unless you have chaired a large convention, and dealt with a large hotel, you probably don't realize what a meal costs in that environment. Also realize that part of the price is the room cost, as well as the food and the service. Unless the group wishes to change the format of future Arachne meetings to a non-food event, or schedule it outside the hotel, expect the price to be similar in the future. You will not find a fast food price in a commercial hotel setting.
Also, most people don't realize that the hotel negotiates a package deal for a convention. If there is a certain volume of food contracts, and bedroom rental, then the classrooms come with it without a separate rental fee. If the hotel does not receive that volume of income from food and bedrooms, then classrooms must be paid separately. With the IOLI convention format, we need lots and lots of classrooms because our classes are small. This year we will have 27 teachers. That's a lot of rooms...especially if a room rent in applied. Thankfully, we have enough food scheduled that it should not be a problem this time. And with the nice number of people registered to attend, we hopefully will also meet the hotel's desired bedroom rental quantity. There's still room in many of the classes, and room in the hotel, if you want to attend and haven't registered yet. I'm looking forward to both the Arachne lunch and the OIDFA meeting. This is the first time I know of that we've had an OIDFA meeting. Alice in Oregon Host guild member and Display chairman Apr 9, 2010 06:36:23 PM, [email protected] wrote: >Like others, I am looking forwarding to hearing what classes I got for this summer >and also to meeting other Arachne at the lunch. I picked up a cute raffle prize >for the lunch last week. You will have to attend to see what it is ;-} > >I also wrote to the 2011 and 2012 convention hosts asking them to try to keep >the cost of the luncheon down, as I know some people did not attend last year because >of the expense. I think our numbers were down in 2009 because the California meals >were so expensive. - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
