Gents,
I went to the Ritz today to start the finalization process on the hotel arrangements. Met with a lovely and helpful woman who takes charge of group bookings and arrangements.
Here's what I discovered and what I need from you:
-regular room rate is $249, corporate rate the rally participants will receive for booking as a group is $129 (regular non-suite room).
-Person who signs the contract(cough cough DBK cough cough) is liable for any rooms unfilled should we fall below 90% capacity of agreed room amount. Yikes.
-Rooms can always be added if we fill more than we anticipate depending on how booked the hotel is. I don't have to sign anything until ~4 weeks from now.
-People who have booked previously (I know a few of you already have) can have the room rate honored if/when we get this done.
Based on GTJoey's tentative list of participants I originally thought we should do about 150 rooms. However, since I don't want to take a $60k hit on the chin should people back out
lol) I'm leaning towards 50 rooms.
The reason this is hard to gauge is because until I recieve all registrations I won't know how many rooms you'll need. For example, the first two registrations I received had 4 and 3 person parties respectively. I'm assuming that's two rooms a piece. The next three registrations were 2,2, and 1.
It would be tremendously helpful if you could private message me in the next few days how many hotel rooms you intend to get, just so when we have to sign the agreement, I can have a FIRM idea of the minimum SAFE number of rooms to agree to.
We could always just say screw it and book on an individual basis, but then the rate will vary depending on hotel booking needs (remember, it's the week prior to the dream cruise), and there is no garuantee exactly how many rooms we can get.
Let me know guys,
Dave
:cheers
I went to the Ritz today to start the finalization process on the hotel arrangements. Met with a lovely and helpful woman who takes charge of group bookings and arrangements.
Here's what I discovered and what I need from you:
-regular room rate is $249, corporate rate the rally participants will receive for booking as a group is $129 (regular non-suite room).
-Person who signs the contract(cough cough DBK cough cough) is liable for any rooms unfilled should we fall below 90% capacity of agreed room amount. Yikes.
-Rooms can always be added if we fill more than we anticipate depending on how booked the hotel is. I don't have to sign anything until ~4 weeks from now.
-People who have booked previously (I know a few of you already have) can have the room rate honored if/when we get this done.
Based on GTJoey's tentative list of participants I originally thought we should do about 150 rooms. However, since I don't want to take a $60k hit on the chin should people back out
lol) I'm leaning towards 50 rooms.The reason this is hard to gauge is because until I recieve all registrations I won't know how many rooms you'll need. For example, the first two registrations I received had 4 and 3 person parties respectively. I'm assuming that's two rooms a piece. The next three registrations were 2,2, and 1.
It would be tremendously helpful if you could private message me in the next few days how many hotel rooms you intend to get, just so when we have to sign the agreement, I can have a FIRM idea of the minimum SAFE number of rooms to agree to.
We could always just say screw it and book on an individual basis, but then the rate will vary depending on hotel booking needs (remember, it's the week prior to the dream cruise), and there is no garuantee exactly how many rooms we can get.
Let me know guys,
Dave
:cheers
