Originally Posted by
hhoope01
In general, I do believe that most hotels will try to put persons from the same group/gathering/event close together (i.e. same floor, wing, etc). This way they just cause themselves problems not everyone else. The issue is that unless the hotel is pretty empty, others not a part of the party may be placed close by. I would think that a "good" hotel though will put the elite members somewhere else. That way they should hopefully be effected less by these types of issues and definitely not on the same floor as the party ballrooms. @:-)
Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like the hotel did any type of planning for their elite members at all.
hhoope01 makes a GREAT point. Without trying to stir the ashes further, a better hotel will be proactive in many regards, including the handling the "special needs" of groups, whether weddings and sports teams. Sometimes not extracting every nickle and dime from your guest (i.e. steep meeting space charges to kill 3 hours and eat pizza) can pay handsome intangible dividends down the road. And folks do need to remember that once they were kids, were young, had younger kids, etc...