Charlotte Chided for DNC CracK Hotels - New England Patriots Forums

Charlotte Pats Fan · 09-04-2012, 02:49 PM

LOL,

Had to go to SC to get hotel rooms.

Charlotte chided for DNC ‘crack hotels’ | CharlotteObserver.com

***Harry Boy*** · 09-04-2012, 02:54 PM

Clowns, they will probably handing out EBT Cards to the hookers and dealers.

Mrs.PatsFanInVa · 09-04-2012, 04:27 PM

And others have been favorably impressed.

Quote:

Hotel accommodations in and around Charlotte are getting high marks from convention visitors.

On Sunday, Massachusetts delegate and first-time Charlotte visitor Paul Yorkis and his wife found their room at the Omni Charlotte “exactly what we ordered.”

Carol Scott Dooling, whose husband, Bill, is a Massachusetts delegate, described their room at the Omni as “excellent.”

Thomas Cappo, president of the National Association of Broadcast Employees & Technicians Local 11, said media employees working the DNC were pleased with their accommodations.

“These are some pretty hard core road guys,” said Cappo, a 30-year employee of NBC. “They’ve seen bad.”

Washington state delegates Lorrie DeKay, 60, and Tanisha Harris, 36, – visiting Charlotte for the first time – were pleased with their rooms at the Hilton Charlotte Executive Park.

Read more here: Convention visitors give Charlotte hotels thumbs up | CharlotteObserver.com

I'm a little confused, though. Do the people hosting the convention actually assign rooms or do they simply send a list of accomodations they've contracted group rates with and allow the attendee to choose?

I've attended quite a few EMS and firefighting conventions over the years and I've always gotten a list of hotels/motels that had agreed to provide group rates (and the rates were all different depending on the grade of hotel participating) but the final choice was up to me and my fire chief. The department would give me a dollar amount they were willing to spend and if I wanted to go over that, I could, but at my own expense.

I would presume that it works the same way for the political party conventions as well.

PatriotsReign · 09-04-2012, 04:30 PM

I've only seen Charlotte's airport. And from what I've seen there....they got some of the most attractive women I've ever laid my eyes upon!