Originally Posted by MSPeconomist
The deposit and cancel terms for these reservations aren't very attractive either, given that we're not getting deeply discounted rates.
Originally Posted by
Tsun
This day had to come - you can't expect all perks of regular stay to go forever, while paying deeply discounted conference/corporate rate.
Except that rooms in conference/trade show blocks often aren't that deeply discounted.
No experience with it here, but having organized meetings/conferences/trade shows in the past, I know that reconciling attendees vs. the room block is a regular headache. Half the time it seems as if attendees call the hotel's central reservation number and they have no knowledge of the room block/conference discount, etc. Since it's often critical to organizers to ensure that the room block gets filled, I'm not surprised that they're taking more aggressive steps to ensure that the attendees are getting put in their room block.