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

[Dean Rehberger]

Hi all

A bit of online value.  I called the Holiday Inn Metrodome and found that
rooms were 169.  I went online through their priority club and made an
online reservation for 50$ less.

Dean Rehberger
Associate Director of Matrix
Associate Professor
Michigan State University
310 Auditorium
East Lansing, MI 48824-1120
rehberger at mail.matrix.msu.edu
matrix.msu.edu/rehberger
wk: (517) 355-9300
fax: (517) 355-8363
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-----Original Message-----
From: air-l-admin at aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin at aoir.org]On Behalf Of
Logie
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 1:23 PM
To: air-l at aoir.org
Subject: RE: [Air-l] Conference Hotel - please consider sharing a room


>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&_innC
ode=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








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