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Originally Posted by Dave Campbell
We just qualified for the CMP event! So excited! One problem, Experient only has hotels >30 miles away from the EJD...Seriously? With 1/6th of the capacity already registered for the FRC CMP (99 teams registered as of this post) and ALL of the local hotels are completely booked? Not right. The teams that qualify should have priority booking privileges, imho.  |
The reason most of these teams do this is because, if they qualify at a later regional or district championship, the teams that qualified at earlier events would get priority, so that's not really fair either. I.e. ALL of the district teams will be stuck 30 miles away, and the teams that qualified week 1 will be walking distance. We usually pre-book rooms for this reason. This year, we waited until February, and we are staying further away. But, as more events happen, and those teams that pre-booked and didn't make it drop out, rooms will open up. So, we are checking back every week to see what rooms have become available.
I.e. if we wait until our week 6 event to book, we may not get anything remotely close. So, we book early, and if we end up not making it, we give that block of rooms up, and another team can have them.
So, just keep checking. Because even after you book with your 8 choices, you can pay a small fee and you can get a different hotel. That is what we plan to do. We'll pay the fee if it means getting a walking distance hotel.