[Deptheads] Minutes and notes from meeting 30 March

[Mark K Hyman]

I agree that staff was good.  But I don't quite have the same bitterness 
towards the management that you do.  We have a different set of 
management that has inherited some contracts from a previous group.  
They've interpreted the contracts differently than the previous ones had 
and are outside of the standard practices for this group.  On those 
points, the contract wasn't clear enough for us to fight over IMO.  At 
least not without a phyrric victory.   They also worked at giving us 
extra space for the Cabanas by moving all of the exercise machines which 
they didn't have to do.

I don't view a difference of opinion as that the other guys are 
assholes.   This may change of course if they do a bunch of things that 
show that they are in fact assholes, but they've yet to prove this to me.

This hotel is good.  IMO it's a solid chunk better than the Westin.  I 
think the staff is better too.  It's large enough for the conventions to 
grow into.  Is it ideal?  No.  But a lot better than many that we've 
looked at, and can afford.    Hopefully with a good working relationship 
with the Hotel management will help us reach the goals for a better con.

Mark.


DB wrote:

> Yes, but hotel management is to blame.  The staff were actually quite 
> courteous and friendly given the constraints that management gave.
>
> So, yes, I agree that Raddison management are a bunch of assholes 
> who've managed to increase profits for them while sticking it to us.
>
> Actual staff were a different story.
>
>
> On 3/31/08 12:51 PM, "Robert Lionheart" <spinachcat at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  
>
>     I severely disagree that "what went right" was hotel staff.  A
>     good hotel partners with their conventions.   Radisson is a one
>     way sinkhole.  They are so lame they haven't even gotten us a good
>     photo of their own hotel for the marketing.  Don't get me started
>     on the parking switcheroo.  Our efforts made them a lot of money
>     while we got kicked in the ass.  Please don't go Stockholm
>     Syndrome on me.
>       
>
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