Yay!

In LA we ended up keeping the Hospitality suite the extra day mainly so that we had it Sunday afternoon. Folks used it as the last place to hang out before they caught their planes and it was a good spot to catch folks for one last time before they left. The same thing happened in DC. If the cost is an issue, I'll pay for the extra day of Hospitality Suite.

"Nooooooooo I'm nooooooot...."

Snerk.

F2F Fundage Update: We are at $300 already! Y'all are awesome. Profile addy is good.

We should definitely get the extra day on the suite. I may be able to kick in as well, but I may not know until much closer to the day.

I agree that Sunday is in some ways the most important day for the HS. As people have to check out, it's a final gathering place. As I am broke and cannot offer so much as a penny to aid in that, though, I am willing to suck it up if others disagree.

Juliana, I sent a check (yes, snail mail ... I imagine it's crawling past Dubuque about now).

OK. Back from meeting Eva and Lilibeth (catering manager) and all is well. I'll post up with details when I get back from next round of errands, and also start getting some basic menu stuff taken care of, but in a nutshell:

1. I have a list of rooms booked, who booked them, etc, and what we need to meet the minimum. Shouldn't be a problem.

2. I have a free adjoining room to erika's (for erika's mom or whomsever is lucky enough to be erika's F2F minion).

3. I have them providing us with at least two small fridges in the hospitality suite, leaving beds in the double bedroom, but taking the beds out of the second one in favour of more chairs and tables.

4. All our rooms will be on the 14th floor or the 12th. Those on the fourteenth will have room keys that automatically access the hospitality suite, from Thursday afternoon on. Those on the twelfth will have a second key awaiting for them at the front desk, that accesses the hospitality suite.

5. They will provide us with a whiteboard, no prob.

6. They're happy to set up a small bar poolside for earlier in our Prom doings, and then move us all indoors to the banquet room, where the full bar and buffet will be set up.

7. They have no problem with a) live music, b) recorded music, c) us providing our own PA, d) us providing our own DVD player for the HS, d) us wandering all over the hotel in corsets, or e) us having as much food of our own as we can hold in the HS (note to catering manager at the Miyako: fuck you muchly).

8. Combined bar/menu costs for prom: bar can be done either as a preset or as a cash bar, depending on what y'all would like.

9. They're delighted to store luggage for B2B, and get the request every year, and are used to it.

More later. Must fly.

Have I mentioned lately how much deb rocks? Because yeah. You do, doll. Thanks so much for all of your hard work.

4. All our rooms will be on the 14th floor or the 12th. Those on the fourteenth will have room keys that automatically access the hospitality suite, from Thursday afternoon on. Those on the twelfth will have a second key awaiting for them at the front desk, that accesses the hospitality suite.

This = frelling awesome.

LOVE #4. That's so cool.