Originally Posted by pinniped

Fair enough. Like I said, I'm sure there will be a situation that requires me to call a hotel for a reservation. I won't say it'll never happen. But in this particular case, there are plenty of nearby hotels that don't require me to take such an extraordinary measure to get a simple hotel room, so off I go to one of them.

I sincerely hope the SHS achieves a sellout that night. I don't doubt that their systems know a lot more about demand than any of us do.

Besides, the anecdotes we have here suggest that phoning them *won't* work - the trust the system, and it's not a mistake. They're pretty certain they're going to sell out without me. I'm still not sure what causes people to book last-minute 2-night stays at airport hotels, but that's because I'm not in the hotel industry...