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Originally Posted by Bill Wells
Rich, are these motels full from LCS folks, or other customers ? seems strange rooms are so hard to get this year at this time.
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Both but mainly LCS people. I don't know the exact numbers. Frank may...
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Originally Posted by Bill Wells
I had heard the Best Value (formerly Cross Country ) has a contract with a trucking company who has a large section of rooms blocked off ( maybe during the week and not on the weekend, dunno ) . But they told me ' no room' a couple of mos ago. Or , have some folks BLOCKED OFF a large number of rooms that may or may not become available in the future ?
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The trucking company is out of there Thursday evening so their rooms where available over the weekend. Some folks do block off rooms and yes, they may or may not become available. They usually do this a year in advance. I would recommend take what you can get and keep your ear to the ground for a more favorable opening.
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Originally Posted by Bill Wells
if it is due to increased LCS attendance, GREAT . if it is someone playing games, hmmmmmmmmm. as stated, the math is fuzzy : booked rooms vs LCS enrollments to date . Bill.
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No games that I am aware of. We talk to the hotels on a fairly regular basis and every thing seems as usual, except that more hotel rooms are taken earlier then ever. This does appear to be because attendance is expected to be at record setting levels. We are having to re-arrange things in London so we have room!
Pay no, or at least little, attention to the number of cars registered versus the number of rooms book. This is common. Over the past six or seven years, I see this all the time. There are the I am going to be there come 'he!! or high water' folks. These are the ones that are usually registered well in advance. There are the 'I will wait and see kind of folks'. They may be waiting to see if they can get the car done, get the time off, if their buddy can go and even some that wait to the very last minute because of the weather. Attendance was down from what we originally thought simply because of the rain last year on Friday! Heck, some people we never even knew where coming at all just showed up and registered!
I look at the two numbers, the number registered and the number of rooms booked using LCS. One I look at as a max, the other a minimum. The actual number is always something in between, nearer the max number.
How many cars this year? Who knows. Depends on a lot of the stuff listed above. To early to tell really but the early indications are that it will be HUGE.
