<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462551562128_6894"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462551562128_7051">An excellent example against the hotel policy that we are now enforcing. (Despite getting my name wrong =P )</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462551562128_6894"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462551562128_6894" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462551562128_7216">Shane Sauby</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462551562128_6894" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462551562128_7215">Boardgames Supervisor</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, May 6, 2016 9:16 AM, David Fitzgerald <dmfitzgerald@hotmail.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">Hey Shaun<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">This has nothing to do with you, however feel free to push it higher in your organization.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">I read about the hotels Zero Tolerance program for outside food, here is my response.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">I have been coming to the local convention since 1986. I have been there even when it got really small in the bad years and I am happy that the convention is now doing well. However this will be my last convention at this hotel.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">When we attend the convention we stay for two nights, always buy the breakfast/appetizer upgrade, always tip the bell person 20.00 to help with our bags, we also pay for parking. The four of us always eat a meal at the hotels restaurant as a special treat and we buy one lunch at the concession stand. Every convention we spend about 600.00 to 700.00 on the hotel and the above expenses at the hotel.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"> We usually bring in 24 cans of soda in our cooler, several large bags of chips and grapes as well as a huge bag of M&M's. Except for the soda's none of these things are available at the convention, the soda's cost about 5.00 at Vons.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">So for 5.00 in sodas the hotel is willing to forgo 600.00? I will probably be cancelling my rooms.<div class="yqt5571561257" id="yqtfd11665"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Best<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">David </div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>