[Deptheads] hotel rooms

Tue May 6 21:52:52 PDT 2014

If she went to the Hilton directly without going through our site, yeah, this might have happened -- we have most of the doubles in our block. Let people know if they have problems to email the convention manager directly. I'm already taking this thing up the chain.

Eric

On May 6, 2014, at 9:47 PM, Eric Burgess wrote:

> She said she did but that was a while ago. Makes you wonder if it was screwed up and they fixed it and said, 'what?'
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> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Eric M. Aldrich I <ealdrich at mac.com> wrote:
> Looking at this, did they go through our site or the Hilton directly? Attached is what I'm seeing, which looks very little like that attachment.
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> On May 6, 2014, at 9:10 PM, E.R. Burgess wrote:
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>> Exactly. The others were credible folks just looking to get a room. This was tweeted by Jenny Chou, a regular attendee who loves the cons, when she tried to book the con rate.
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>> <25E0FCCE-EE83-4440-A9B8-BB453423DA91.jpg>
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>> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Jim Sandoval <plustentoawesome at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This message was from one of my regular GMs and a consistent and enthusiastic volunteer.
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>> "Anyone have suggestions for what to do about the fact the hotel only shows king-bed rooms at the con rate, or $180/night for 2 double beds? Had this problem back in January, too. Does the Hilton just not have as many doubles?"
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>> My Sr. volunteer had a similar issue which caused them to get a room at their AAA rate because it was the only discounted double room they could get. I find it unlikely that either of these people would simply make this up.
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>> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Eric M. Aldrich I <ealdrich at mac.com> wrote:
>> The problem is it was NEVER the case. Someone just made this shit up. All one had to do is go try to register a room.
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>> Eric
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>> On May 6, 2014, at 5:58 PM, E.R. Burgess wrote:
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>>> Yup - it's been widely discussed in social. They were going through the site but if it's updated now, we should note that.
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>>> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Eric Aldrich <ealdrich at mac.com> wrote:
>>> Someone was asking about us running out of doubles. This is not the case. There are plenty of rooms. I vaguely recall someone saying that they heard this on facebook. It's wrong. Tell them to go through our web site -- it shows all types of rooms as available. 
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