My gut feeling is that Dec. 13th is too close to the Holidays, and $149 is too expensive. My guess is we could find another property in Atlanta, but probably not in time for 2007. Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Lampert" <l_lampert@yahoo.com> To: "Aquatic Gardeners Association Board" <aga-sc@thekrib.com> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 4:45 PM Subject: [AGA-sc] AGA Update > Hi Everyone, > > I wanted to give you guys a quick update on our > convention. > > I am currently traveling up in Maryland, but I spoke > with Jim Rogers at Seachem and he reiterated that Greg > Morin and Doug and everyone else there would love for > us to have it in Atlanta. I let him know that we > intend to do there but at this point we are trying to > decide whether it be 2007 or 2008. > > He gave me a hotel recommendation, Marriott Downtown, > it is a business class hotel and is 4 blocks from the > new world class Atlanta Aquarium. The best rate I > could get for Nov was $149/night for either 2007 or > 2008. > > I talked to the sales guy there for a while and he > came up with a better rate for Dec 11-13 of $104. This > is the only weeekend we can get this rate either in > 2007 or 2008. > > Here is the link to the Marriot downtown: > <http://marriott.com/hotels/travel/atldm-atlanta-marriott-downtown/> > > Obviously this is not an ideal weekend but we need to > decide as a group if it is still something we think is > doable. > > We can still look at other properties but time is > short. I want to have a group decision on this within > a week so that I can get back to them and we can start > with the rest of the planning. > > > Thoughts please??????? > > > Regards, > > Larry > > _______________________________________________ > AGA-sc mailing list > AGA-sc@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc > _______________________________________________ AGA-sc mailing list AGA-sc@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc