CannonCocker

Ron, I'm fully aware that this is a volunteer organization. I run our local show and depend upon a cadre of about 80 volunteers to pull it off. I truly appreciate the folks who spend a lot of time and energy to make the Nats successful. I'm just wondering if we are creating our own problem. I only recently started attending the Nats. This will be my 4th. I encountered no issue getting rooms at the Rio in Las Vegas. For Omaha, the room block sold out in about 20 minutes; however, I was able to get a room at the Embassy Suites at a higher rate. For San Marcos, the block also sold out in minutes. I only got a room there when a friend had to cancel due to health issues and I took over his reservation. I'm only suggesting that we rethink how we as an organization handle the rooms for the convention. We may be creating the problem by blocking the entire hotel until a certain date and time and be only releasing a portion of the rooms. It encourages bad behavior, frustrates our members, and creates a s**t storm for the leadership on Facebook. There has to be a better way of doing this. Thanks, Rick

After an hour of my wife and I trying on the web, on the Hilton app, and by phone, I finally cracked the code by playing with the dates. I was able to reserve the 18th-21st at the IPMS rate and then did a separate reservation for the 16th-18th at a slightly higher rate. Clearly the block wasn't set to a wide enough date range to accomadte the attendees from the west coast and the vendors. This just should not be this hard. Are we creating our own problem by not opening the reservations until H-Hour, D-Day? This just creates a land-rush as 3,000 of us try to make reservations at the same time and overwhelm the hotel systems. Why not just start allowing reservations when the contract is signed and avoid the land rush?

Thank you Tom!

My wife and I are planning our travel for 2025 and don't want to mis the Nats. Do we have a date for the Nats in Hampton VA? Thanks, Rick Taylor IPMS/Seattle