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Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday
So our team qualified for Champs through EI last week at FLR, and we accepted the invitation. Now, we just need to find a way to bring and lodge the team! We've looked into the Steele reserved hotels, and it appears that we can get a better deal (by almost $2000 for a team our size) if we don't book through them, and go to a different hotel. However, we would be missing out on the Finale party. I know that last year was Will.i.am, which is very exciting, but this year doesn't look to be terribly intriguing. Will we be missing out on something fun if we choose to save the money? |
We're having the same difficulties. We found hotels that offered rooms at $80 a night, but couldn't give them to us because they were all committed to Steele, who wanted $180. If you booked the room for four people, they wanted over $400 where usually a hotel only adds $10-20 per person, if anything.
Since we are coming in a coach bus, we are widening our search and will probably be driving in from a distance each day because of it.
It seems to us that the whole Steele Meetings thing is a way to gouge teams for extra money.
As for the after party, out team has never gone to them and spent the money on a team dinner somewhere. It's worked out really well.