Folks, The hotel is going to release the special deal hold we have on rooms this Friday. So if you haven't booked a room yet, I'm afraid the rate is likely to jump up starting Friday. So...I would stop procrastinating, and get a room. To make matters even trickier, it is important that you call, rather than do it over the internet, and you have to make sure to talk to staff at the hotel, not someone at the national chain headquarters. Only the local staff has the Wineconf deal information ($99/night). So, call now, 1-612-332-6800, operators are standing by! Cheers, Jeremy
Jeremy, On 09/14/2011 09:30 PM, Jeremy White wrote:
The hotel is going to release the special deal hold we have on rooms this Friday. So if you haven't booked a room yet, I'm afraid the rate is likely to jump up starting Friday.
So...I would stop procrastinating, and get a room.
To make matters even trickier, it is important that you call, rather than do it over the internet, and you have to make sure to talk to staff at the hotel, not someone at the national chain headquarters.
Only the local staff has the Wineconf deal information ($99/night).
So, call now, 1-612-332-6800, operators are standing by! not really. Is there another magic trick cause I keep failing to book. They play Ring around the Rosie. Either I get routed directly to their national chain headquarters as soon as I mention "book a room". Or they transfer me to their sales office because "they cannot book the special group rates". And at the sales office I either hit the voice mail because nobody is there or if I hit a human he tells me a.) I'm wrong there as he doesn't do room bookings but he'll help me out b.) The special rate is sold out but he'll helpfully send me to the voice mail of the sales rep handling that deal who "will be back next morning". No, I didn't speak on the voice mail as that never works out with international numbers. And I kept missing their magical "next morning" they were talking about as the job kept me freaking busy the last 2 weeks.
So it looks like I'll have to sleep under a bridge. </rant> bye michael
On 09/14/2011 09:30 PM, Jeremy White wrote:
The hotel is going to release the special deal hold we have on rooms this Friday. So if you haven't booked a room yet, I'm afraid the rate is likely to jump up starting Friday.
So...I would stop procrastinating, and get a room.
To make matters even trickier, it is important that you call, rather than do it over the internet, and you have to make sure to talk to staff at the hotel, not someone at the national chain headquarters.
Only the local staff has the Wineconf deal information ($99/night).
So, call now, 1-612-332-6800, operators are standing by! not really. Is there another magic trick cause I keep failing to book. They play Ring around the Rosie. Either I get routed directly to their national chain headquarters as soon as I mention "book a room". Or they transfer me to their sales office because "they cannot book the special group rates". And at the sales office I either hit the voice mail because nobody is there or if I hit a human he tells me a.) I'm wrong there as he doesn't do room bookings but he'll help me out b.) The special rate is sold out but he'll helpfully send me to the voice mail of the sales rep handling that deal who "will be back next morning". No, I didn't speak on the voice mail as that never works out with international numbers. And I kept missing their magical "next morning" they were talking about as the job kept me freaking busy the last 2 weeks.
So it looks like I'll have to sleep under a bridge. </rant>
Crap. We're going to call the hotel today and yell at them; we'll get something set aside for you, Michael. If anyone else is having trouble, email me. Sorry about this :-(. Jeremy
We're getting one more piece of advice - make sure to specify you want to connect to the downtown Doubletree; apparently there is one by the MOA that can get in the chain some how. You don't want that one. Cheers, Jeremy
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