[Texas] PyTexas Lightning Survey: Hotel Planning

[Brad Allen]

Reminder: tonight is the last night for the La Quinta $69 group rate.
The phone number is 979-696-7777.  They still have rooms available.

Registration is up to 167, btw!

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Brad Allen <bradallen137 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The LaQuinta reserved block is now available; the hotel manager has
> told me this can be announced even though there is still some
> paperwork to finish up. You should be able to reserve your hotel now,
> and ask for the "PyTexas group rate" of $69 for Sept 9th and/or 10th.
> Also note that if you stay any other days, you'll have to pay the
> normal rate of $79.
>
> Important: this $69 group rate is only available if you reserve by
> next Wed Aug 31!
>
> When I called into reservations to make sure the process worked, they
> had a little trouble finding it until I spelled it out
> "p-y-t-e-x-a-s".
>
> The phone number is 1-979-696-7777. Option 4 for reservations didn't
> work for me...it gave me a fax tone. Option 6 for the front desk
> worked, and they transferred me to reservations.
>
> Regarding the Hyatt as a higher priced option, I'm don't think that is
> going to work out. The people who set up such blocks for that location
> are out of the office until next week, which I believe is too late.
> Also, it was only for a block of 10 rooms, so it doesn't seem worth
> the effort to push it to the last minute.  I'd suggest everyone go
> with the LaQuinta option, who claims they have enough rooms available
> even if we far exceed the block of 30.  I realize a few of you wanted
> to pick out a nicer hotel, and those are still available in College
> Station, just not at a group rate.
>
> I've put more detail about this on the wiki, including the link to the
> hotel, at <http://wiki.pytexas.org/HotelInfo2011>.
>