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Unread 25-03-2003, 13:28
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Team 213 the Dirty Birds will be staying at the Houston Hilton Plaza (by the medical center). Will anyone else be staying there?

I just wanted to touch on the cost of the packages you are all talking about. I agree that they are expensive, but not as bad as the Florida rates. We are bringing 17 students with us who struggled to fund raise. My biggest complaint as a coach is that my family will be traveling with me as my wife helps our team. I am bringing my 2 children ages 4 and 6. We HAD to pay full price (package prices) for our kids to attend. Are any other coaches having this same problem? We contacted FIRST and the Meeting Company who said we had a legitimate complaint but there is nothing they would do about it. (FIRST did point out that we could leave our children home, which was not an option, and frankly quite rude of the woman to suggest .) When we asked if we didn't pay the price for them they responded that the kids could not ride the shuttle or go to any of the after competition events, which would mean our whole team would have missed out. So we had to pay for them to attend. Is there some way that we could try to have FIRST offer the individual sales to teams next year? I'm not trying to single out any of the teams from the Houston area (because you all deserve to go) but is it fair to sell tickets to those teams because they live there and not offer them to the teams who can't afford to buy the packages? Does anyone else feel this way?