[CQ-Contest] Is anyone else pissed off...

[Mark Bailey]

Hi Pete:

I just booked at the Doubletree.  $89.00/night, unrestricted.  I have in the 
past paid a premium to stay at the Crowne Plaza, but not next year!

73,

Mark, KD4D

On 7/2/2010 6:52 AM, Pete Smith wrote:
> Well, I'll certainly be going to the Doubletree.  Maybe we should move
> the supersuite over there too, to send them the message through their
> cash bar receipts.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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> On 7/1/2010 8:32 PM, Paul Gentry wrote:
>> .... about this amazingly disgusting rate hike by the Crowne Plaza?   From $125 or so all the way to $209?
>>
>> This is a 70% increase
>>
>> I thought that $125 a night for the average rooms&   service that we get is a bit high... but $209?
>>
>> The DoubleTree 2 blocks away is just as nice and under $100 a night
>>
>> I bet that if enough people call the Crowne directly and voice an opinion and threaten to go elsewhere, they might have a change of heart.  I'm currently in email contact with the marketing manager... probably gonna talk to him tomorrow.
>>
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