[Deptheads] Sheraton

[Mike Fryer]

I am not to sure about the numbers for the Sheraton space. The Rad.
Ballroom is 166x84, 13944 sqft. Sheraton lists their ballroom at 100x79,
11400 sqft.  I think their ballroom is really only 7900 sqft. I had to
use a calculator to be sure, but 100*79 always came out to 7900.  It
looks like some of the salons overlap, depending on the setup, and they
added up all the salons, counting some of the space multiple times. I
looked at this hotel before and decided it wouldn't work for us, but I
am willing to be proved wrong.

 

Mike Fryer

 

From: deptheads-bounces at strategicon.net
[mailto:deptheads-bounces at strategicon.net] On Behalf Of Michael Russell
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:34 PM
To: deptheads at strategicon.net
Subject: Re: [Deptheads] New Radisson contact

 

The big problem I see with the Sheraton is that the space is divided
between a few floors, and as we saw at the Westin, it makes the con feel
like there are a lot less people there there there really is. .  Where
we are not most everything is on one floor making a much better
atmosphere.  

On Apr 16, 2008, at 6:55 PM, Robert Lionheart wrote:





Their website claims 50,000 feet with 38 rooms plus grand ballroom

http://www.sheratonlosangeles.com/meetings/index.html

 

 - R



"Eric M. Aldrich I" <ealdrich at penguinlust.org> wrote:

	The Sheraton has only 16,000 feet of convention space -- they
weren't in the running.
	
	Eric
	
	On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:53:11PM -0700, Robert Lionheart
wrote:
	> I just called the Radisson's Reservation Desk...
	> a) Again, they said there is NO free parking with the
convention rate. 
	> b) And you have to pay $13 / day for Quik Park across the
street
	> 
	> And the Sheraton Gateway (aka Boardgamer Getaway) on Century
(1 block away) is only $109 with $13/night for parking...
	> 
	> Hmm...Eric, could the staff discounts count toward the
Sheraton? :)
	> 
	> BTW, what kind of prices did Sheraton quote us for the
convention? Their website is nice. 
	> 
	> - R
	> 
	> 
	> 
	> 
	> 
	> Patrick Havert wrote:
	> Folks,
	> 
	> Just as an aside, when people sign up to stay at the hotel,
There is an alert that tells them they will need to park across the
street at the Quik Lock parking lot. Didn't we pay extra for free
parking? I thought that the parking was only under construction for the
bank parking lot.
	> 
	> -Patrick
	> ----- Original Message ----- 
	> From: Robert Lionheart 
	> To: deptheads at strategicon.net 
	> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 6:40 PM
	> Subject: Re: [Deptheads] New Radisson contact
	> 
	> 
	> WTF? Is she the 3rd, 4th or 5th liaison we have had? 
	> 
	> Please PLEASE please contact the General Manager of the
Radisson and let him know that this is unacceptable. We are high dollar
value clients. We need to be treated as such. 
	> 
	> Let me break this down for everyone
	> 
	> 1) LAX Radisson is a business hotel 
	> 2) Business hotels are barren wastelands during three day
holiday weekends
	> 3) Their main weekend business is two weddings and a seminar
	> 4) Even their weekday conventions rarely take up the whole
hotel
	> 
	> WE come on their money loss weekend
	> WE buy up the entire hotel
	> WE buy up hundreds of rooms at a hefty cost
	> WE buy up thousands in snacks, restaurant and concessions
	> WE spend tens of thousands in parking fees
	> 
	> I don't know about you, but when I order dinner and I have 4
different waiters and then get served lukewarm steak, it's high time I
call over the manager. 
	> 
	> - R
	> 
	> 
	> 
	> 
	> 
	> 
	> 
	> 
	> 
	> "Eric M. Aldrich I" wrote:
	> After several weeks of no responses, we have a new liaison
Akemi 
	> Shapiro. I believe she's the woman who was Nadja's assistant
at the 
	> last show, but I don't know for certain. The hotel
registration now 
	> works....
	> 
	> Eric
	> 
	> ---
	> Eric M. Aldrich I
	> Apple Core Audio Engineering
	> Audio Codecs
	> 
	> 
	> 
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