Hotel Deal for WineConf is expiring this Friday - book now!

[Jeremy White]

> 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