Room prices are $95 each for either weekend.
My food is problematic.
River ,'The Message'
F2F5: I forget that everyone isn't us
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon.
Nicole - Mar 19, 2011 1:27:56 pm PDT #6748 of 12706
I'm getting the pig!
sj - Mar 19, 2011 1:29:28 pm PDT #6749 of 12706
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Room prices are $95 each for either weekend.
This seems like a very reasonable price to me.
Trudy Booth - Mar 19, 2011 1:34:47 pm PDT #6750 of 12706
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Nebbermind then.
And $95 IS reasonable, but $75 would be better.
(But since its not the case, see above re: nebbermind)
What happened with the $74.95 hotel then? Agh, forget it. I'll re-re-read.
SuziQ - Mar 19, 2011 2:02:18 pm PDT #6751 of 12706
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
$75 = no booze
Nicole - Mar 19, 2011 2:03:39 pm PDT #6752 of 12706
I'm getting the pig!
I'm on my phone so not easy to look up but that might have been the hotel that said no alcohol and off site prom. The Marriott was slightly cheaper before the wireless Internet and parking were negotiated into the room prices.
Pix - Mar 19, 2011 3:12:49 pm PDT #6753 of 12706
The status is NOT quo.
And realistically, very few major cities have rooms that cheap. $95/night is a steal for a Marriott in a nice city, IMO. Besides, it would suck for the locals not to be able to attend.
Trudy Booth - Mar 19, 2011 4:35:52 pm PDT #6754 of 12706
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Like I said, I agree that $95 is great. I just thought we had a cheaper option and I wish we would make a point of keeping prices as cheap as possible because I'm 99% sure we would get better attendance if we made that a priority.
Maybe next year.
sj - Mar 19, 2011 4:39:13 pm PDT #6755 of 12706
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I think the price of flights to F2F locations is probably more of a problem for people money wise than the cost of the hotel usually is.
javachik - Mar 19, 2011 4:42:16 pm PDT #6756 of 12706
Our wings are not tired.
I was just going to say that, SJ. $20 difference for hotel rooms is much less a variable than the cost of flights.
As for attendance, interest it seems to be waning every year. Perhaps the novelty has simply worm off for a number of people? There might well simply be a group of hardcore enthusiasts who would be served very well by planning for them by them and not worrying too much about those who choose not to attend.
sj - Mar 19, 2011 4:46:22 pm PDT #6757 of 12706
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
As for attendance, interest it seems to be waning every year. Perhaps the novelty has simply worm off for a number of people? There might well simply be a group of hardcore enthusiasts who would be served very well by planning for them by them and not worrying too much about those who choose not to attend.
I was thinking about this the other day, and I wonder if part of it isn't that many people are in different situations than when the F2Fs first started. It seems to me that there are far more people on the board now with families, mortages, and other obligations that didn't have those things when I first joined the buffistas. Those things do often make it more difficult to travel. Not to mention that the economy isn't as good as it used to be.