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Re: [APO-L] Room rates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deborah Cherry)
Wed Nov 13 12:26:28 2002
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:47:13 -0500
Reply-To: Deborah Cherry <dc30@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
From: Deborah Cherry <dc30@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <20021113162311.9139.qmail@web11003.mail.yahoo.com>
--On Wednesday, November 13, 2002 8:23 AM -0800 Laura Doss
<mldoss@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> I
> don't know if that's a New Orleans thing or not. The
> gal I spoke with said it was a Sheraton thing, but I
> can tell you that in my nearly 13 years of service in
> the Army, the only time I've had to produce orders at
> a hotel was when I was going to be staying for an
> extended period of time, like last year when I got
> activated for Airport Duty and had to stay in a motel
> for a couple of months. But for an overnight stay, my
> "green card" was always good, until now.
It's probably because it's a peak time, they can sell much of their rooms
for $300+, they aren't going to give a military discount unless it's really
for miliitary purposes.
Even without the Sugar Bowl, New Year's Eve is a major event at most major,
urban full-service hotels, and they charge a premimum for it (usually in a
package along with their gala ball, drinks, etc). Discounts are given in
part to encourage people to stay at a given hotel when the room might
otherwise go empty, but on New Year's Eve, not only isn't it empty, but
it's one of the rare times they can really charge "rack rate" extensively
and get it (check out the back of the room door in a hotel to see what that
room's "rack rate" is- full price, no discounts of any kind, and you'll
find you rarely pay it unless youn are in a very high demand area/time
and/or made last minute reservations...)
Yours in LFS,
Debbie Cherry
Sectional Representative Alpha Gamma Upsilon (Section 62)
Chairman of Advisory Cmte, Kappa Chapter, Carnegie Mellon University
dc30@andrew.cmu.edu
