<VV> Host hotel

[Dennis & Debbie PLEAU]

This contract wasn't signed with this requirement in place.  It also wasn't 
excluded because who would have though of it?

I understand the reasoning for the requirement, when you book a block of 
rooms, you get a block of meeting rooms if they are all sold.  In the past, 
CORSA members have booked the required number of rooms and CORSA has 
scheduled the meeting rooms only to have enough people cancel that the hotel 
charges CORSA for the meeting rooms.  I expected when I heard this policy 
and I'm sure the rest of CORSA BoD and management did was expect people to 
give there CC number and guaranty one night.

The hotel being creative, decided to put these guarantied first nights into 
the cheapest category with their credit card processor and require visual 
proof of the card and a valid ID.  If the first night is to use round 
numbers $100 and if the person cancels and they don't get the ID, the hotel 
gives CORSA $100 and they get dinged with a $3 credit card processing fee so 
they actually lose $3.  If they get all the ID, the processing fee is only 
$2.  It's no skin off the hotel's head to lower their risk only $2 by 
requiring the extra identification.  I would classify it as CS, but 
considering CORSAs past performance of rooms book vs. rooms used they look 
to save some money $1 at a time.

I would suggest, people just send a check rather than hassle with the 
requirements of using a credit card.

I speak for myself and not CORSA or M&P.

Dennis Pleau
CORSA Western Division Director




>From: corvairs <lonwall at corvairunderground.com>
>To: Chuck Littman <chuckandflo at frontiernet.net>
>CC: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>Subject: Re: <VV> Host hotel
>Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:25:08 -0800
>
>Chuck, respectfully. Harry is not going to eat anything. Corsa might, 
>though.   Lon
>
>Western Corsa Director
>
>Chuck Littman wrote:
>
>>No way am I going to let the host hotel push me around like this.  I have 
>>booked a hotel down the street for little more than 1/2 the host hotel 
>>rate, and all they asked for was my credit card number.  If Harry and the 
>>host club can't control the host hotel better than this, then I think 
>>CORSA is going to eat a lot of hotel rooms.
>>Now, Hank, you must remember that the dinner cruise in Buffalo was held on 
>>2 nights, so conflicts should have been avoided.   Chuck Littman