The one time I stayed at a midtown hotel, I stayed at the Paramount. The decor was great -- Gary Panter designed the kids common room! Doing a quick check online, room are also $250-$275.
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We killed a homeless man on this bench. Me and Dru. Those were good times. You know, he begged for mercy, and you know, that only made her bite harder.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
F2F 3: Who's Bringing the Guacamole?
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon: San Francisco, May 19-21, 2006! Everything else, go here! Swag!
Jon B. - Apr 05, 2005 12:21:07 pm PDT #1890 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
NoiseDesign - Apr 05, 2005 12:23:48 pm PDT #1891 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
Looks like rates are just high that week. I sent the quote off saying that my lodging will be running $275 a night for the trip. Once the final green light is given then I'll see what I can do. I'm going to call The Library Hotel again once I'm ready to book and see if there's any chance of a room again.
meara - Apr 05, 2005 6:02:53 pm PDT #1892 of 10001
Try "Dream"? It's on...57th or so, between 7th and 8th, I think? I got it for about $190, last time I went, and it was super nice.
Fred Pete - Apr 10, 2005 7:38:01 am PDT #1893 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Bad news -- due to inability to find kitty-sitting, it looks like we won't be going to the NOLA F2F this year.
OTOH, we visited a boarder that's trying to find a home for an abandoned pair of 6YO Himalayans. So we may become a 3-kitty home in the very near future.
JenP - Apr 10, 2005 9:43:29 am PDT #1894 of 10001
ND, I'm sending a contrib., but you can just put it towards whichever fund is in most need.
Have fun, ya'll. Wish I could be there, too. No muffaletta for Jen this year, though.
NoiseDesign - Apr 10, 2005 10:33:55 am PDT #1895 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
F2F Update
Here's where we currently are:
Main fund $780 (minus some PayPal fees)
Travel fund $40
We need to have close to $2500 for our expenses for the weekend. We are now 5 weeks away from the event. I'm not sure where we are on the hotel room bookings, hopefully Kristin will post that information soon so we can find out if we're in trouble there.
Cutoff date for our block of rooms is April, 20th.
That means you have 10 days left to get room reservations at our rate, and it also means that we only have 10 days left to fill the block of rooms that we signed a contract on.
I'm starting to get a little worried about our funding situation. We've had very low numbers of folks donating so far. And by low I mean less than 15 people so far.
No matter what I'm really looking forward to seeing folks in N.O. and I know we're going to have a good time. However, if you've been procrastinating on reserving hotel rooms or on sending in a donation, now is when I ask you to please stop procrastinating.
Lee - Apr 10, 2005 10:58:44 am PDT #1896 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I don't know if I am alone in this, but Paypal doesn't want to let me send money. It gets stuck on the step where it asks me to verify my information, and won't go to the final step. I had this problem the other day as well.
JenP - Apr 10, 2005 11:05:04 am PDT #1897 of 10001
Not that it helps you, exactly, but mine went through fine, Perkins.
Tom Scola - Apr 10, 2005 11:13:52 am PDT #1898 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I just had the same problem, Perkins. But I changed the payment category from "Quasi-Cash" to "Goods" and it went through.
NoiseDesign - Apr 10, 2005 11:24:50 am PDT #1899 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
If anyone has problems with sending through PayPal just drop me an email and I can give you a snail mail address. Some folks have already done this.
Also, we are now up to $930 in the main fund.
I've had a few folks tell me to put the money where it is most needed and at the moment I'm putting all of those donations into the main fund. Once we hit the mark we need in the main fund I'll reallocate any of the "most needed" money into the travel fund.