When I originally reserved the room, I also encountered the problem of
no availability on Thursday night.
I called on Monday the 15th to try to add in Thursday night and was told
that there are no rooms at that rate.
Clearly there is a communication problems at the hotel, between the
people the organizers have talked to and the people taking reservations.
One problem the reservation lady seemed to be having is she would ask
for the group code, I'd say code4lib, and she'd confirm saying OK so
the code is 4lib.
She also had trouble finding the reservation I made through the Oregon
State University Conference Services site and wanted to just make a new
reservation, with a notation that it might be a duplicate. Finally
after telling her my name, address, email, arrival date and
acknowledgement number for a third time, she finally said "Is your first
name Robert?" and found the original reservation. <snark> I guess she
was confused by all the other people with the same last name as me.
</snark> It may be that the lower room availability is due to several
similarly duplicated reservations.
-Robert Haschart
On 12/16/2014 10:59 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
The word from the Hilton as of 6:00 PST is that we have rooms available at
the following days:
2/7 - 4
2/8 - 11
2/9 - 19
2/10 - 9
2/11 - 5
2/12 - 2
2/13 - 0
I can verify with them tomorrow and see what we can do about expanding the
block. We've only just met (or are about to meet?) our obligations, so we
haven't been in a big hurry to bump up the numbers.
I would encourage you to negotiate with the hotel directly if you're having
trouble, and we'll do what we can on our end.
- Tom
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Rainwater, Jean<jean_rainwa...@brown.edu>
wrote:
I had the same experience -- got a reservation for Thursday but they said
the block was sold out and I'd have to pay a higher rate. -- jean
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Heidi P Frank<h...@nyu.edu> wrote:
Hi,
I'm also needing Thursday night added.
I had reserved my room about a week ago, and got Sunday-Wednesday nights
at
the conference rate, but couldn't get Thursday night at all. So based on
suggestions on the C4L email about the hotel, I called them directly to
get
Thursday night added. They did add Thursday night onto my reservation,
but
only at the regular higher rate - they said the conference rate was not
available for that night. I had seen a message that people were working
on
expanding the blocks, but hadn't heard any updates.
If the hotel block is expanded, especially for Thursday night, can
someone
confirm? I still need to call the hotel back so they will change my
Thursday night price to the conference rate.
Thanks!
heidi
Heidi Frank
Electronic Resources& Special Formats Cataloger
New York University Libraries
Knowledge Access& Resources Management Services
20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10003
212-998-2499 (office)
212-995-4366 (fax)
h...@nyu.edu
Skype: hfrank71
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Betsy Coles<bco...@library.caltech.edu
wrote:
I'm not panicking, but I just tried to reserve a hotel room for Sunday
night through Wednesday night and the booking website says nothing is
available (Sunday through Tuesday was OK). Could someone please nudge
the
Hilton and get some more rooms added to the block, particularly for
Wednesday night?
Many thanks,
Betsy Coles
Caltech Library
bco...@caltech.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf
Of
Tom Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 1:39 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2015 Registration Update [spots still
available]
It has come to my attention that the public perception is that Code4Lib
2015 is either sold out or at risk of selling out in the immediate
future.
I'm here to tell you DON'T PANIC! As of yesterday morning, there are
at
least 100 places available for regular (non-speaker, non-scholarship)
attendees. At my latest check in, there should still be hotel rooms
available at the conference rate, as well; and we have confidence that
if
the hotel block *does* sell out, we can expand it at least a little for
all
the conference days.
While there's no need to drag your feet (the earlier the host committee
knows rough final attendee numbers, the better!), you shouldn't be
concerned at this point if you are waiting for approval (or for after
the
holidays) to register.
Our goal is to avoid turning anyone away, and we look to be on track to
do
that.
Happy Holidays, and hoping to see you in Portland,
Tom Johnson, on behalf of the PDX host committee
--
Jean Rainwater
Head, Integrated Technology Services
Brown University Library
10 Prospect Street / Box A
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
401.863.9031
jean_rainwa...@brown.edu
