Well. This morning, I received a card from the Baltimore Housing
Bureau, telling me I had been assigned to a hotel that I had not
requested. Calls to the 3 hotels I *had* requested confirmed that
they did still have rooms available at non-convention rates, and
that they didn't know yet whether the convention-rate rooms were
booked. Non-convention rates were *significantly* higher, so that
option was out.
Fellow Houston librarians I've spoken to report similar experiences.
After some digging, I finally located a phone number for Baltimore
Housing Bureau: 800/343-3468. I spoke with someone there who
confirmed that most of the rooms have already been booked almost
a full month prior to the deadline for making reservations.
When I inquired whether they were planning to reserve more rooms
for the convention, given the obviously high demand for same, I was
informed that the hotels limit the number of rooms they will book
at convention rates. The question of whether we need more rooms
apparently does not enter into it; the hotels just won't give them
to us at the discounted rate.
So, what now?
Dina Dreifuerst, Law Librarian
Clements, O'Neill, Pierce & Nickens (713) 654-7600
1000 Lousiana, Suite 1800 (fax) 654-7690
Houston TX 77002-5009 dina@neosoft.com
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