[lojban] Re: Time Sensitive, Please Read: LogFest on Friday?

[Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 02:51 PM 6/19/03 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:08:01PM -0400, Robert LeChevalier wrote:
> > At 01:30 PM 6/19/03 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > >Traditionally, people have started showing up for LogFest on Friday
> > >some time.  But then, traditionally we haven't paid for room
> > >space. 8)
> > >
> > >I'm now holding the hotel contract, and the conference room costs
> > >$184.31.  That includes soda and water for 15 people.
> >
> > I don't think we need conference space for Friday.  Indeed, I had
> > thought we were going to get by with an extra "con suite" hotel
> > room, and no conference room.
>
> I had managed to work myself into the impression that a suite
> wouldn't be large enough to seat the number of people required.
>
> A friend who got a suite for a con party, however, assures me that a
> reasonably sized suite parlour room (hers was 450 square feet) can
> hold a good 15 to 20 people, on chairs and everything.

At some point we'll be too big for a regular suite, and then you move to a 
larger one - probably when the number staying at the hotel full time 
exceeds 20-25.  I've seen science fiction con suites, usually  held in 
executive sized suites, that held 50 people easily.  Sometimes they get two 
adjoining rooms that have a connecting door and then keep that door 
open.  But an Embassy Suites type suite can hold 15-20, with the primary 
problem getting the hotel to provide extra chairs (or allow you to bring 
some folding chairs in).

lojbab

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