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Old Feb 10, 2005 | 9:22 am
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bhatnasx
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Originally Posted by magexpect
Relax and enjoy yourself. Let us know how it went... ^
It went pretty well! I got back into IAD the night before, got about 5 hours of sleep and packed my bags for an early morning flight out of BWI. Flew on US to HVN - which is probably one of the smallest airports I've ever been to. It had 2 gates - a DL gate & a US gate.

I stayed at the Courtyard in Shelton - which used to be a Ramada Inn - it says its only taking reservation after 2/21, but they were in full operation. The breakfast was pretty decent - usually hotel bacon isn't that great, but for some reason, it was pretty good. They were doing construction still on the second floor, but I was given a room on the fifth floor. The hotel had wireless high-speed internet & I had my managers old laptop with me. Which, of course, didn't have a wireless modem on it. Luckily, the front desk had a wireless adapter, so that worked out for me well.

I got a lot of stuff done & met with the people I needed to meet with. Overall, I'd say it was pretty uneventful - nothing exciting - we went out to a nice dinners - where they were ordering 50.00 bottles of wine (expense accounts - luckily, they picked up the tab - my manager wouldn't have been happy if I paid for that dinner). The flights were all on time & my one upgradeable segment got upgraded. The difference was that for this trip, I had to book through Cliqbook (Carlson-Wagonlit corporate booking tool) and because of this, I wasn't able to check my reservations on US's website (I could use VirtuallyThere.com though) - and b/c of this, I couldn't get my upgrades processed without calling US directly - which was a bit of an annoyance. A good trip & I'm looking forward to more!
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