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Originally Posted by TheShortOne  I'd really like to see us all stay in one place (somewhat how it was tried in NJC04, albiet not totally successfully)
If you guys know like a year or 8 months in advance can you take vacation time for NJC 07 or would you still try to bid it off and cross your fingers? |
see, that's what i'd really like to know too...
the reason that 2004 didn't work all that good was because a lot of people were looking for cheaper than $80/room...which is the price we had at the hawthorne...now, gotta admit that that group room rate was really good for being vegas and for being a weekend....
BUT, if people are still going to look for a room that's less than $80 or what i can find as a group rate, then we can't afford to do it because in order to qualify for group rates, we have to have at least 30 + rooms guaranteed...and if we don't rent those, then doug and i have to pay for the rest....so we've been really up iffy as to whether or not to go that route again.
now, the idea of collecting funds so each NJC attendee has enuff money for room, food and spending cash is a good idea.. but it would be hard to implement and hard to stick too because of the drop outs that occur near the event (we had 5 drop out and at least 5-8 no show due to whatever reason). the only thing i can think of to make it easier would be to have everyone designate or open their own bank account and keep track themselves...$20/month from January to October.. figure $30/registration, $150/night hotel (for a nice hotel, probably not the bellagio cuz that's more expensive), $50-100 for food each day and spending/show/gambling cash...