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Re: [RC] Convention Rooms - k s swigartFrom: "Ranelle Rubin" <raneller@xxxxxxx> Kat, you obviously missed the point of the entire discussion. The point is, convention is relatively inexpensive to attend as an event. Travel/hotels/meals are expensive. The actual event is not that bad compared to venues of this type. AERC does this by guaranteeing the hotel a certain number of sleeping rooms at a certain rate. On the contrary, it appears to be you who has missed the point. This whole discussion started when somebody mentioned that she could get the same room in the same hotel for a cheaper rate by booking it online through some online booking agency rather than booking at the "AERC rate" with the hotel. And Connie Caudill said, in essence, "don't do that, pay more for your hotel room because some of the cost of the convention is burried in the cost of the hotel room if you book it from the AERC's block of rooms." MY point is that the cost of the convention should be paid for by ALL the convention attendees, not just those who stay at the hotel and book from the AERC's block of rooms. Otherwise, people like me, who stay with my sister (or Paddi who booked through the online agency, or Joe Long who is staying at a different hotel or people who share a room, or whatever), are getting a the convention at a discount at the expense of those people who book the AERC rooms. Fine with me if y'all want to subsidize other people's (including mine) attendance through paying extra for your room. But you aren't "supporting the sport" by doing so, you are supporting ME. "Support the sport" is a con. However, I am not going to encourange anybody to do this. I say, if you can find cheaper accommodations than the AERC rate, by all means do so...and maybe then, the AERC and the hotel will stop trying to hide the cost of the convention meeting rooms by collecting it only from those people who book into the hotel with the AERC block. I am not a big fan of sellers that hide the cost of things in other items for two reasons: the first is that unless you require everybody to buy the other items as well, it allocates the costs unfairly; and the other is that the underlying philosophy is that I am too stupid to figure out that that is what you are doing. I am even not a big fan of it in this instance where (were I to attend convention), _I_ would be the beneficiary of the unfairness and other people's stupidity. kat Orange County, Calif. :) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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