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> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:53:09 -0500 > From: tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [RC] Convention Rooms > > Hotel room rates are a commodity. While the industry the prices vary > with supply and demand. Hotels to some extent are becoming more like rug > merchants every day. It is better to get X dollars for a room than leave > it empty. There is no cost savings on an empty room and the fixed cost > are exactly the same - better to have someone in it even at a reduces > cost. They have all sorts of prices. I've gone on the Hilton site and > looked at the price and then gone back on later to book a room - to see > variation in the "best available" rate. Normally organizations don't > get much of a break on the rooms. What the organization gets is a break > on the meeting rooms. > > Is that fair - each of us seems to have an opinion on that, but it is a > fact of life. Those that want to stay at the hotel are paying for the > convenience of being where all the action is. Those that don't have the > inconvenience of going to the hotel to the convention, trade show, etc. > The good news is we live in a country were we do have the options. > > Truman > > heidi larson wrote: > > And not to keep stirring the pot, but my husband just > > checked the online rates again and the room prices > > (non-AERC) have dropped again. Our airfare has dropped > > twice since Christmas and car rental has also dropped > > twice. I look at it like "now I can afford to shop more at > > the vendors, eat more at their rest. and maybe even gamble > > a bit." (I generally don't gamble.) > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > "It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended > from man." H.L. Mencken > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > 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!! > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >
