Why are all the hotels booked?
Sep 9, 2006 | 12:50 am
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Why are all the hotels booked?
I can't find a hotel room for less than perhaps $450 - if even that - in Chicago on the 12th or the 20th of Sept. I can't find any major conventions on the city website, though.
What's going on?
So much for Sweet Home Chicago...Ugh. I may actually have to stay at "HOME"!
What's going on?
So much for Sweet Home Chicago...Ugh. I may actually have to stay at "HOME"!
Sep 9, 2006 | 1:09 am
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Originally Posted by Jakebeth
I can't find a hotel room for less than perhaps $450 - if even that - in Chicago on the 12th or the 20th of Sept. I can't find any major conventions on the city website, though.
What's going on?
So much for Sweet Home Chicago...Ugh. I may actually have to stay at "HOME"!
What's going on?
So much for Sweet Home Chicago...Ugh. I may actually have to stay at "HOME"!
what dates are you looking for exactly and where in chicago do you want to stay?
Sep 9, 2006 | 6:28 am
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There is a World Music festival the 14th - 20th, though doubt that would book everything up. Perhaps it is just a bunch of the smaller things going on (i.e. I am attending a small conference Sept. 18-19), or maybe there was one night in your seach that was especially busy that threw the whole price/search return off?
Sep 9, 2006 | 1:25 pm
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Originally Posted by dbuckho
There is a World Music festival the 14th - 20th, though doubt that would book everything up. Perhaps it is just a bunch of the smaller things going on (i.e. I am attending a small conference Sept. 18-19), or maybe there was one night in your seach that was especially busy that threw the whole price/search return off?
Sep 12, 2006 | 3:15 am
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Originally Posted by Jakebeth
I can't find a hotel room for less than perhaps $450 - if even that - in Chicago on the 12th or the 20th of Sept. I can't find any major conventions on the city website, though.
What's going on?
So much for Sweet Home Chicago...Ugh. I may actually have to stay at "HOME"!
What's going on?
So much for Sweet Home Chicago...Ugh. I may actually have to stay at "HOME"!
Don't know about the 20th.
Those websites that purport to list all the conventions in town do not do so.
Sep 12, 2006 | 10:15 am
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Originally Posted by toomanybooks
Big trade show (International Manufacturing Technology Show) until the 13th. 73,000+ delegates according to their site. And the Cubs are in town.
Don't know about the 20th.
Those websites that purport to list all the conventions in town do not do so.
Don't know about the 20th.
Those websites that purport to list all the conventions in town do not do so.
Not that it helps me get a room toomanybooks, but it does make me feel a little better to know there's an actual reason.
Thanks much for the info!(I can't believe I have to stay at HOME...!!!!!!)
Sep 13, 2006 | 8:35 pm
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If you're still looking for the 20th, go to www.quikbook.com. There's not a huge selection, but in the city for <$400 they're showing the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel, Congress Plaza, Talbott, Hotel 71, Amalfi, Hard Rock, Comfort Inn, Affinia Chicago and the Best Western. Not the best selection, but it's something!
Sep 13, 2006 | 11:11 pm
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Originally Posted by chgoeditor
If you're still looking for the 20th, go to www.quikbook.com. There's not a huge selection, but in the city for <$400 they're showing the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel, Congress Plaza, Talbott, Hotel 71, Amalfi, Hard Rock, Comfort Inn, Affinia Chicago and the Best Western. Not the best selection, but it's something!
Just as a point of interest....
I flew to MCI tonight and my seatmate told me that he had been in Chicago for the aforementioned International Manufacturing Technology Show. He described it as a very odd nearly all-male affair with a lot of wacky marketing displays geared towards men. In particular he said that ISCAR, the Israeli cutting tool company recently purchased by Berkshire Hathaway, had body-painted women with no actual clothes on - but that they wound up wearing bikinis the next day.
Sep 16, 2006 | 1:04 pm
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Originally Posted by Jakebeth
He described it as a very odd nearly all-male affair with a lot of wacky marketing displays geared towards men. In particular he said that ISCAR, the Israeli cutting tool company recently purchased by Berkshire Hathaway, had body-painted women with no actual clothes on - but that they wound up wearing bikinis the next day.