The comment below from Larry Lampert is a good summary of the hotel contracts. Some of this we can probably negotiate to soften a bit, but it's possible that a hotel in this region is going to cost us roughly about half to as much as the AGA netted from AGA2K4. sh --- Larry Lampert wrote: >> Subject: Re: Sheraton Contract > To: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com> > > Yea, and the holdiay inn seems to be playing that game > too. It seems to be a theme here in all of the hotels > negotiations. They are either overcharging on rooms or > facilities and then asking us to bear all of the risk > w/out guaranteeing much of anything. > > "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com> wrote: > Btw, the Marriot > was going to charge something like a couple > grand for the meeting rooms and $120something for the > roomnights. When they finally agreed to put the > roomnights > in two digits instead of three, they added the diff in > income to the meeting room fees -- sorting of like > bidding > the same price twice. > ===== S. Hieber __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com with "unsubscribe aga-sc" in the body of the message. Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-sc When asked, log in as username is "aga-sc", and password "incorp".