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Posted by Fran .

Other on team #166, Team Merrimack, from Merrimack High School and Unitrode/R.S. Machines.

Posted on 6/9/99 10:05 AM MST


In Reply to: Room Reservations posted by MaryEllen on 6/9/99 4:49 AM MST:




As Team 166's travel coordinator, I corrected Beccy about OCT.....You see last year we had people withou a clue running things ...they did not try to make reservations until Feb which cost us $100 more for less time and we were outside Disney. In order to avoid this problem I started to inquire in Oct. about reservations...no one was allowed to 'book the FIRSTdeal' until Jan. when kickoff happened. Now if you booked in Dec., it wasn't under the FIRST plan but maybe just a regular reservation. We booked
15 rooms which later were reduced to 10 and Disney was happy because they had a waiting list since 1 week after kickoff. Obviously if nationals became invitation only then not so many teams would be booking flights or rooms. As much as its great to watch most teams can't afford a trip just to watch besides this will make the regional presence more important.....they seem like closer knit competitions ..you can remember and follow teams and not get lost in the shuffle. I do feel Disney would need toset aside room for qualifiers over observers

Fran




: : grrr. We had to reserve out hotel rooms in October for nationals. If they are based on qualificaition there is no way for us to get there in time. It's all fine and dandy for students in FL but way up here in NH it's hard to do!!!

: Why October? If I remember, the deadline for Disney reservations was December.
: We even had engineers, who joined after January, get rooms in the same hotel,
: on the same floor, as the rest of our team in February and March.
: Disney is better at organizing and routing large groups of people better
: than the US Marines.