Awesome, Jilli!

Could you or Plei come up with a rough count of how many local "you can crash here, Buffista" beds are possible?

Could you or Plei come up with a rough count of how many local "you can crash here, Buffista" beds are possible?

Yep!

(loving Jilli's Brides of Batman tagline)

Said by a very cheerfully confused man at me & Plei when we were waiting in line to see Batman Begins at the IMAX.

Said by a very cheerfully confused man at me & Plei when we were waiting in line to see Batman Begins at the IMAX.

So beyond excellent.

Jilli and Plei may disagree, but that's my take.

Well, it depends on the outlying area. Actually getting to downtown from anywhere is pretty easy, as Express service to downtown is fairly common. It's getting from neighborhood to neighborhood that's a PITA.

Speaking as one who was in Chicago, bussing into the city from some of the outlying areas is just as fast as getting from Evanston to Chicago proper, and the only outlying area I can think of that does a lot of convention business and is loaded with hotels is SeaTac, which for obvious reasons, busses quite nicely into downtown.

Sorry. I just got home from school and caught up.

I was simply re-posting the guidelines that I posted more than a month ago. I said, at that point, when the issue of money came up, that I, at the very least, wanted to wait till after the date vote to re-assess the money thing. We're there now, of course, so, yeah, let's figure it out.

Yes, the last 2 years have not met the money requirement that was listed for this year. That's a good bit of the reason why it was listed this year.

I understand that it may be impossible to find what is listed in a place we'd like to be (although the vigor with which it is apparently impossible is slightly startling to me, as I litereally cut and pasted from earlier in this thread).

I'm trying to think of some sort solution to the issue. The only thing, at the moment, is that maybe we have "what is the least it cost to get what we want/need from a hotel that is transit-friendly" and "what is the best we can get for $99" on the City Pimpage sheet.

I, personally, don't much care either way on whether eaither number is before or after taxes, so long as we're consistent across cities.

I'm sure I'll have more thoughts, but I wanted to say that I'm here now and here's where my head is. I'd also like to wait before deciding any move for more people to weigh in (Truly do I feel the plight of those without Net access during the day, for I am more of your number now than at many times in the past)

I'm trying to think of some sort solution to the issue. The only thing, at the moment, is that maybe we have "what is the least it cost to get what we want/need from a hotel that is transit-friendly" and "what is the best we can get for $99" on the City Pimpage sheet.

I think this is a great idea.

I think certain things, like high speed internet access, we may want to reconsider as deal breakers if there is, say, easy-to-access free wireless in close proximity. Or at least list, "Hotel A: 89 a night, no internet access, closest net cafe .25 miles" or something.

I may be talking out my hat here, but I think the hotel tax, at least in SF, is a significant percentage--I don't have a quote, but I think it's in the teens, at least, so it could actually make the difference in whether or not I could afford a half or a quarter of a room.

There is that. Quotes should probably be what we're going to be putting on our credit cards, tax and all.

What Abi has presented as parameters is an attempt at a compromise between the two. Lets see what we can get in those parameters and proceed from there.

I understood, from my reading of previous posts (previous to today, I mean), that they weren't parameters/guidelines, as much as deal-breaker requirements. People were pretty insistent on highspeed internet access, for instance.

I'm trying to think of some sort solution to the issue. The only thing, at the moment, is that maybe we have "what is the least it cost to get what we want/need from a hotel that is transit-friendly" and "what is the best we can get for $99" on the City Pimpage sheet.

This seems like the best option.

Though I have to say, if a non-freaky-group-friendly motel with no space for a hospitality suite is $99, and a hotel that's used to handling groups of freaks, with a hospitality suite and prom space, is $110, I don't have a problem with the extra $10.

So what is the dealbreaker? Price? Amenities?

So what is the dealbreaker? Price? Amenities?

Also wondering this. Because the way it looks now, it reads as if the only way to satisfy is to talk to seventeen hotels, even going in knowing that fifteen of them will neither have all of what is required nor be much cheaper than the remaining two, and write up proposals for them.

Which takes me back to my orginal question, of days ago: if I have what is fairly obviously going to be the best bid in this neck of the woods, do I really need to talk to ten other hotels?

I asked an opinion, and got a bunch of resounding "no, don't waste your time" responses, which pretty much synched up with how I was seeing it.

And now, I'm confused again. What is the dealbreaker? At what point do I say, oh, you can't provide us with (insert), thanks anyway" and hang up?