And free beer!

Please add me to both the lunch list and the spy museum list. It'll be the first episode of CSI Flyertalk. :)

Or a luxury box!

They don't have any of those at RFK - it's an old broken-down stadium.

If we want a luxury suite in DC, we'd have to find a strip club.

And yet again, the ***** from the Nationals did not call. I've left two messages and tried calling the main number again and got put on hold for another 30 minutes with no answer.

Is this the number you have?

866-800-1275

Did you try the email option off the Nationals website? Not sure it'll get you any satisfaction but its just another option.

BTW, can you mail out Friday's ticket and for Saturday, we'll just get it from you when we meet for drinks/eats beforehand (or at the stadium if they can't give you the tickets before then :o )

The option I tried gave me a MLB email address for the webmaster. Tomorrow, I'm going to try to get a fax number to the corporate offices - I'll call the MLB commissioner's office if I have to, since the team is still owned by MLB right now.

I have a 202# for the ticket office (it ends in -NATS), but I also have the direct line to the group sales coordinator.

And free beer!

I'm holding a reservation at the Sheraton National (over by DCA) for Friday and Saturday nights, but may change if I can find something better (i.e. in the city). It was for $139 a night through starwood.com, with cancellations allowed. I'm getting nothing on Priceline, and a lot of the hotels downtown show no availability on their websites - is something else going on that weekend, or is it always tight on the weekends?

I'm in for lunch on Saturday, but not the spy museum - there's too much else to see in DC, since I haven't been there since I was 10.

DITTO! hmmmm....beer ;)

It's a bad weekend for some reason - maybe the cherry blossoms or something. I had a $170 at the Westin Grand using an SPG50 that I was hoping would come down, and it never did. We've ended up at the Hilton Crystal City for $129 because at least it's only a short walk to the Metro.

Ditto the sucky hotel price experience. I booked the Homewood Suites at Mass Ave. & 15th for $135 a night six months ago, figuring I could get a better deal as the time got closer. Ha....the hotel is double that the last time I checked, and Hotwire was so high I didn't even check PL. Hell, with everybody paying so much for their hotels, I may just go to a packy and setup a hospitality bar at the Homewood so that folks can have a few cocktails without busitn' their budgets...... :D

I FINALLY heard back from the woman at the Nationals' today. She was very apologetic about the whole thing. First, it took her five minutes to find our order because she had misspelled ILP's name. Finally she found the order. The tickets had not been printed yet, and I explained that this wasn't going to work because I had to mail tickets out to people. She apologized again and explained that they had to replace their vendor to whom they had outsourced the ticket printing, and that they were trying to get caught up on weekdays where there was no day game.

She said that she would make sure the tickets get printed tomorrow (day game today) and she would FedEx them to me at my office. I also requested that she email me the tracking number.

Assuming the tickets really show up Friday morning, I'll be mailing out tickets later that day to everybody from whom I have received payment.

You can save 37 cents and give me mine at the pre-game party. If my flight is delayed, you can leave the Friday ticket at will call.

Wot, no upgrade??? :mad:

:D