I take a two month break from square dancing and all hell breaks loose. :) I hadn't heard anything about this until your post. I don't recall anything coming in about this from the LGCWSD list, even.
I think most convention committees turn their noses up at simpler venues such as college dorms in the summer, which would also be cheaper...and (with the hindsight of a historian) have seemed to work just fine in the past.
I'm also perfectly OK with using a suburban or airport hotel. People have forgotten that we didn't even HAVE a hotel in Las Vegas in 1997 - it was torn down months before the convention - and still people managed to have a good time staying at different hotels and going to the conference center for dancing.
One of the suggestions I made to a Times Squares member last year--which brought a look of sheer horror to their face--was that they grab a hotel near both an airport and a train line that runs into Manhattan. You would have thought I was suggesting they buy child pornography. "NOT have the CONVENTION in MANHATTAN!?" they wailed incredulously...
Speaking of suburban hotels...I seem to recall the 2005 convention in Santa Clara, California--a suburb of San Jose, of all places--went just fine.
We've had a major economic meltdown. I think it's time for all clubs to consider resetting their expectations lower than a luxury hotel, to something more in keeping with tough economic times.
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Date: 2011-11-16 09:44 pm (UTC)I think most convention committees turn their noses up at simpler venues such as college dorms in the summer, which would also be cheaper...and (with the hindsight of a historian) have seemed to work just fine in the past.
I'm also perfectly OK with using a suburban or airport hotel. People have forgotten that we didn't even HAVE a hotel in Las Vegas in 1997 - it was torn down months before the convention - and still people managed to have a good time staying at different hotels and going to the conference center for dancing.
One of the suggestions I made to a Times Squares member last year--which brought a look of sheer horror to their face--was that they grab a hotel near both an airport and a train line that runs into Manhattan. You would have thought I was suggesting they buy child pornography. "NOT have the CONVENTION in MANHATTAN!?" they wailed incredulously...
Speaking of suburban hotels...I seem to recall the 2005 convention in Santa Clara, California--a suburb of San Jose, of all places--went just fine.
We've had a major economic meltdown. I think it's time for all clubs to consider resetting their expectations lower than a luxury hotel, to something more in keeping with tough economic times.