Originally Posted by
GoPhils
Did you know the members/parents of the other team? Sounds like you knew what their lower rate was before you even checked in? I guess I'm just confused as to how you even found out about their rate.
However, the GM refusing to speak with you is obviously unacceptable.
No, we didn't know the other parents prior to check in. We were all arriving at the same time and parents began comparing notes about our teams and our early tournament opponents and apparently somewhere along the way the discussion turned to hotel rates and the realization that there was a $30/night difference in rates. Personally, to me, this is a minor dollar figure to argue about. However, we have families on this team that scrape every penny together for their kids to play travel ball and the kids do fundraisers to pay for the vast majority of the travel they do. For some parents, $30/night is substantial and they were royally ticked off that the hotel would adjust a rate for some of the parents and not all who became aware of the lower rate and asked for it!