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There are three reasons to stay at the conference hotel, even though it might not be the cheapest option: 1) You can roll out of bed and into the session; 2) More opportunities for out of band discussions; and 3) There is very likely a hotel commit involved, meaning that the organizers have committed to a certain number of rooms per night in order to get free or discounted meeting rooms, hospitality rooms and other services. Performance on room commits can be used as a bargaining chip for future Code4LibCons. Everyone knows that budget is always a big consideration, and not everyone can or will stay at the conference hotel. Cary On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 6:16 AM, BWS Johnson <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Salvete! > > > > I am happy to announce that we have secured the venue and dates for > > Code4Lib 2014! The conference will be held at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel > > in downtown Raleigh, NC on March 24 - 27, 2014. Preconferences will be > > held Monday March 24, and the main conference on Tuesday March 25 - 27. > > > > Hooray, that's sort of close. Maybe I'll be able to pit fight my own > place next year. > > > > Finally, the hotel has the capacity to host all of the attendees, and > we've > > negotiated a rate of $159/night that includes wireless access in the > hotel > > rooms. Hotel reservations will be able to made after you register using > > the information provided in your registration confirmation. We will be > > publishing more details as become available. > > > Ruh oh. This was rather shocking. Perhaps you might wish to show them > a hotels.com search, which puts your $159 just over the Hilton and about > double other places in the vicinity. I'm sure it's nice and all that, but > uh, perhaps they would be willing to come down seeing as how we're sending > a boatload of traffic their way. > > Cheers, > Brooke > -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com