[Air-l] Conference Hotel - please consider sharing a room

[Logie]

>It seems the Radisson Hotel Metrodome is chock full.  The site does not list
>other hotels that would work in area--does anyone know what might be good
>and/or close?


Hi -

John Logie, your Conference Coordinator here. Suffice it to say 
demand for hotel rooms is very strong in the Twin Cities, as we 
happen to be up against the University of Minnesota Football Team's 
homecoming weekend. (Of course, given a few more Gopher losses, the 
current demand may yet evaporate.) We booked a LOT of rooms at the 
Radisson -- enough that we were nervous about meeting our obligation 
-- but now find there are more bodies than rooms.

We'll be working on posting (at least) advice for those now seeking 
lodging to the local info pages, but I would like to ask that those 
who HAVE Radisson rooms and would be amenable to sharing them please 
proceed to the roommate finder (http://aoir.org/2001/roomate/ ) and 
make their willingness to share known. If half the people now booked 
for single occupancy were to do this, our housing concern would 
likely be eliminated.

This conference's theme in INTERconnections. Please consider making a 
connection by sharing a room with a colleague.

Failing that, my short-term recommendation, which I'm circulating to 
this list (so that AoIR members will have an opportunity to pounce) 
is the Holiday Inn Metrodome which is 9/10 of a mile away from the 
conference site.

As of noon today (Thursday) there was still some availability, though 
it will be more expensive than the Radisson. You can check out 
prices, etc, by proceeding to 
http://www.sixcontinentshotels.com/holiday-inn?_template=chkavail.html&_innCode=MSPMD
or by navigating your way through the Holiday Inn site.

Good luck!

Best,

John Logie
Conference Coordinator
Internet Research 2.0
Department of Rhetoric
University of Minnesota