2013 National Registration Codes and Parking Fees
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Marriott Hotel Reservations - SF San Mateo
The registration form shows the Arrival/Departure dates as 7/23-7/29. Please adjust them to reflect your stay, but remember those are the dates for the "package" rates. Register anywhere within that span and you will get the lower room-rates. PARKING is Free for this event. Marriott management tells me the fee notice is hardwired into their webpage, but that it will be waived for our event. So if it shows up on your registration, let us know. In any case you will NOT be charged for it...Bob
Marriott Hotel Reservations - SF San Mateo
The registration form shows the Arrival/Departure dates as 7/23-7/29. Please adjust them to reflect your stay, but remember those are the dates for the "package" rates. Register anywhere within that span and you will get the lower room-rates. PARKING is Free for this event. Marriott management tells me the fee notice is hardwired into their webpage, but that it will be waived for our event. So if it shows up on your registration, let us know. In any case you will NOT be charged for it...Bob
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We're not able to make a reservation and hold a room without paying? 5 nights $525.00, Really!??0
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I made my reservation without any requirement to pay up front. Also, you can get the special rate for the 21st or 22d as well.0
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According to Hotel mgmt. your card should not have been charged until you check in. Double-check your card statement, and if you were in fact charged, give them a call and they should take it off....Remember too, the $105 per nite fee does not include tax etc, which, in Calif, can add up a bit....However, these are excellent rates for this area during prime tourist season. Remember, you can also access this link, as well as maps, photos, etc, at our chapter website: norcalhet.org0
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Glad to hear that Rick...Thanks for getting back to us. These days, anything is possible...Bob0
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It is not working. It tell me "Group Rate Not Available For Requested Dates"
Jim0 -
What dates did you put in ? Bob0
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I'm also getting the "group rate not available" message at the moment. This is for arrive 22nd July and leave 28th July. Its early days, presumably the Marriott will sort this out before long.0
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I will call them today, but the parameters were for 7/23-7/29th. You may have to call the desk to get the rates for early days....Bob0
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Not a biggy 11 months out, but the dates on the Marriott page do offer arrive 22nd and leave 29th. The earliest arrival date the page will actually accept bookings for is the 24th.0
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Booked my room today by phone . Was told no more block booking remain for the 22 & 23.
Had to pay full price for those dates $237. 24-28 are still available.
Looks like things are filling up fast!
Ivan
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I will be calling Marriot in the morning....This is like working on a British bike...0
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Just booked 2 rooms online, I wanted both to be 4 nights, arrive 24th, depart 28th. The first room was OK at 4 nights but for the second room the system would only allow me 3 nights, arrive 25th depart 28th.0
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Hoe many room nights were booked for the week of the National meet ? As of today, one month after this years National, there are only rooms available for Thursday, Friday & Saturday at the club rate. How can thay be sold out already if the meet starts on Wednesday ? Someone needs to address this situation.0
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I have a call in to the Marriot people...Hopefully we can get this straightened out today. Will also be calling Ed Drexler-Bob0
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Apparently some days have been booked up...Ed & Richard are looking into this, but, as of right now there are plenty of rooms for the 25th & 26th (Thurs, Fri). Not sure yet why this happened, possible computer error, but we are working on it. Please be patient....0
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OK, here's the deal: Due to OVERWHELMING demand, and we do mean "overwhelming", the rooms with the preferred rates for the 22, 23, & 24th have been sold out. Hotel management has said it is highly unusual to get this many reservations so far in advance of the event. Plenty of rooms for Thurs, Fri, and Sat are still available at this time. You can still book rooms for the 22-24th, but at the regular rate, which is about $100/nite higher.
Because we are so far from the actual dates of the meet, the hotel is unwilling to make any more rooms available at the preferred rate at this time, but may open more up as we get closer to July 2013. Nothing is definite on that score however.
Ed and Richard are looking into alternate bookings in the area, but, as you may know, obtaining hotel bookings anywhere in the SF Bay Area, particularly for a group, can be very tricky. If we underestimated the demand for this event, we apologize, but the room negotiations with Marriot were done after consulting with several other chapters who had hosted National Meets recently. We feel that this has the potential to be a really great National Meet, one that will be remembered for years to come, and want to encourage you all to make your plans and reservations now. Again, we apologize for the inconvenience, and we hope to see you all in 2013. Please contact Ed or Richard with any further questions...Bob0 -
So now the question is any alternative hotels/motels nearby that have been negotiated for the HET rate???
Oh, ok, I see that you folks are working on alternative hotels. Sorry 'bout that.
In looking closer at the post I can't quite understand why, if the block of rooms set aside are filled, you can book those dates (22nd-24th) at a rate $100 higher. Why couldn't those rooms be filled at the negotiated rate even tho they weren't part of the deal to start with. I mean, apparently they have rooms available.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN0 -
This seems to happen every year that all the rooms for National meets fill up within the first month of announcement. Should we have learned by now? Maybe we should have MORE rooms reserved, or larger or multiple hotels. It leaves most of the club members who are not fast on the draw( A whole year in advance) without a suitable place to stay.
A lot of members are confused on the dates also. In the May-June WTN it says the dates for the National are July 17-22. In the July August issue , July 23-270 -
I called the Marriott yesterday and made a reservation for one room, two queen beds for Monday the 22nd check in and checking out Monday morning the 29th. They said the club rate ($105.00) was only good for Thursday the 25th through Monday the 29th. The first three nights I would have to pay the regular rate of $279.00 a night. I asked if they could honor the $105.00 rate and they said they would check and let me know. Well that was yesterday and I have not heard anything back. I asked how many rooms are at this Marriott and he said 325 rooms plus 151 suites. Were the 325 rooms reserved for the club or only 100? Something is not right?!! In the first thread above Bob states that the dates 7-23 through 7-29 are the dates for the "package rate".0
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Ok, spoke to Marriott.All the regular rooms are GONE for July 22-24. Those other rooms for $279 are suites. They would not tell me how many rooms were reserved in the block.The rooms available on the 28-29 of July at the club rate, are after the fact-when the meet is over!
Anyway was able to reserve July 25-27. Guess I'll sleep in my car July 22-24, but I won't tell my wife yet!0 -
Please also remember that it's just about 11 months still to go before the meet. Give us time to work something out. As I said, we consulted with the people who set up Spokane, Marbury, and other National Meet venues before making our plans. Nobody anticipated this kind of response.
Let us see what we can do....Bob0 -
Good thing it's really to far for me to drive - if I had to pay $279 a night I couldn't go - and that's a sad commentary on the way things are going with our National meets. No way I could afford it - even with a room share.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN0 -
Well Alex, my friend -
We won't be going to the National next year. Assuming I could get the time off, there is no way this event remotely fits into the budget. Between airfare and the hotel...just not doable at all.
But, to those that can afford it - hope they have a good time.
Laurie0 -
I called Marriot and made reservation for T, F, Sat. Looking forward to a great meet and seeing old friends and make new ones. Might even find a place M - W for less.
There are so many Hudsons, Exess's, and Terraplanes out West its possible to have the largest turnout of any national. If only we can get enough affordable rooms. Any local members willing to rent out a room for long distant travelers. Alex needs a room.
I grumbled some about the cost of my last National (drove 6,000 miles) and we went anyway and had a great time. Glad we did.
Lee O'Dell0 -
I hope Ed and Bob can get Marriott to cut their prospective guests some slack. Forecasting rooms on a project this size is a very unappreciated, difficult task - whoever signs the contract is on the hook for the unsold rooms for any given nite, and not even the HET, Inc has pockets that deep if the unthinkable happens - so you pick a number of rooms for every nite of the meet you can live with and go from there. See you in San Mateo!
Jon Cronk0 -
Thanks Jon & Lee....we'll keep working on it. Bob0
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Lee, thank you for your post saying "Alex needs a room". Bottom line is it's too much of a hassel to fly and it's to far for me to drive. So I wouldn't be coming in any event, much as I'd like to.
I was just trying to make the point that, as Laurie pointed out, is that it's almost reached the point where a fair sized number of HET members are getting priced out of the market. I know it's hard to find a venue that fits most members budget these days; economy , fewer people traveling and so on.
The hard work the planning committee has put into this meet is greatly appreciated - most folks don't know what goes into getting one of these things together. But I do have to say that my feeling is the planning committee erred in estimating how many people would be coming - there are, what, 3 chapters in California and if one looks in the roster CA alone takes up 23 pages of members. That should be a hint that the turnout is going to be large.
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN0 -
FYI: THE Stone Villa Inn San Mateo is close by and as of now has rooms available for 7-23 thru 7-29 at $105 per night0
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The San Mateo Marriot is now completely sold out for discount rooms during the National Meet.
We apparently logged in over 700 room-nights. Apparently no one has ever seen this much response this early. We continue to research alternate lodging....0
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