Fair enough, but if it's traffic issues they are worried about, they didn't think about that until the week of the event? That's really bad planning if that's the case, I'd hope for those prices that they'd put some thought into the logistics up front

I still haven't seen any updates from the event.

Is no one live-blogging!?

Not apart from the 'official' blog and the MegaDo FB page.

Didn't you watch the slick mp tv clips about the exciting things happening each day??!?!?!

Yes, I did but didn't want to admit it publicly.

Thanks.

So THAT'S how you pronounce Rimowa. I always thought it was rim-o-WA, not RIMo-ha.

I'm curious. On organized tours/charters/trips, the group leader never pays.
Tour companies may offer 1 free with every xx purchased. My thinking out loud question... do MegaDo organizers ride4free? Can anyone shed some light on this.

I'm asking in the interest of full disclosure.

dh

Good luck with that

Were you actually looking or just assumed that no one was writing anything??


HackMyTrip has had several posts about the trip.
http://hackmytrip.com/2013/10/touring-boneyard/
http://hackmytrip.com/2013/10/megado-charter-begins/
http://hackmytrip.com/2013/10/video-...-milepoint-tv/
http://hackmytrip.com/2013/10/behind...tt-air-canada/
http://hackmytrip.com/2013/10/stompin-ritz/
http://hackmytrip.com/2013/10/willy-wonka-made-luggage/

These posts are also being run on the MegaDo.com site.

MommyPoints has a review from the Ritz in Toronto.

I was just looking too soon.

Can't answer for the Mego?? but for the Chicago Seminars we are granted 1 free room for every 30 we sell and we use them for speaker rooms. In addition the hotel gives us ten rooms at half off so we can chip in more to charity.

We also earn meeting planner points based on total spending done on the event. This year we gave those points to an attendee as a door prize. It was about 146,000 IHG points transferred into his account.

Sorry I have no idea how the airlines work but my guess would be the price of the airline seat is inflated to cover the cost of the organizers attending for free. They charter the whole plane after all.

I know that each MegaDo supporter/sponsor gets 1 free seat on the charter.

Really annoyed that for those of us that paid more money to stay at the RC:

- At the Marriott, E+ would have gotten upgraded to the lounge. At RC, no upgrades were arranged, so on the first day, breakfast was out of pocket.
- On the other two days, we had a really lame breakfast (pastries only). No eggs, ham, bacon, anything. A few people had gluten/carb intolerances and were left scrambling.
- On the day that AC cancelled their hangar event so that Marriott could show us a "behind the scenes".... the event was *not* replicated at the RC. People at the RC woke up at 8am just to be shown off the housekeeping team for 5 minutes, and then waited for 3 hours while the guests at Marriott had fun with the tour. I actually left as soon as I heard this and went to the Marriott -- it was a LOT of fun, and when the RC people got there at 11 they seem really annoyed... there was nothing to do 8-11 except go to the Aquarium.

There were a lot of snafus (it was my first SMD), but this one was the most annoying.

I can only speak for SMD5, but I'm happy to answer: the four organizers flew and stayed for $0. Some sponsors also had seats on the charter. I'd argue that neither were free (sponsors have done/paid something, organizers have given 100s of hours of time), but with regards to out-of-pocket costs, it's correct that we didn't pay for out seats.

The question came up from a couple people during the trip as well and I think it's a fair one.

If you sell airline group tickets on scheduled flights you get 1 seat for every 10-20 tickets you sell. However if you clearly say your prefer everyone pays, then the base fare goes down by 10-15% @:-).