SND/Boston folks offer another option for hotel rooms
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The design editor of a respected publication e-mailed overnight:
I’ve got a room at the hotel for the Friday night but there were none available for Saturday. I was wondering if yall knew of anyone caught in a similar situation — but reversed — who wouldn’t mind splitting a room.
Yes, the Park Plaza is filling up — especially for the evening of Saturday, Oct. 13. If you’ve not yet made your reservations for the SND workshop, you may find yourself scratching.
Two options are available.
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1. Try the Holiday Inn on Beacon Hill.
Our host, Dan Zedek of The Boston Globe, writes:
The Park Plaza is filling up and the conference rate is expiring but I’ve arranged for additonal rooms. Details at http://www.sndboston.com/register.php
These would be at the Holiday Inn Select/Boston Government Center, just south of Massachusetts General Hospital.
Here’s a look at the place:
Not bad. It’s just a 15-minute walk or a 5-minute T ride from the Park Plaza, Dan says:
See the hotel’s home page here.
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2. Find a roommate.
Need a room? Willing to share your room? Know of other hotels — perhaps near a T line station – that still have rooms? Or have rooms at a reasonable rate?
Let us know. E-mail me (charles.apple@pilotonline.com) or leave a comment with this post. We’ll try to match you guys up.
The annual workshop is simply too good an opportunity to pass up, just because the hotel is packed.
Check out my tips for the workshop.
Register for a room at the Park Plaza.
Read more about the workshop schedule.
See you next month!
September 18th, 2007 at 8:34 am
Dear Charles,
It is possible to use Biddingfortravel.com and priceline.com to find a rate at the four star Hotel InterContinental in Boston for $115.
The five star hotel is on the waterfront and a short cab ride from the SND conference site at the Boston Park Plaza
I blogged about it here. The bidding technique, BTW, comes from a travel article recently published in the Sunday edition of the Chicago Tribune - which is where Jonathon Berlin is headed, so it can’t be wrong.
Boston Intercontinental for $115 a night
September 18th, 2007 at 11:27 am
The aforementioned design editor writes back with an anonymous ad:
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I have a room Friday with double beds; need place to crash Saturday instead of driving 2 hours home; easy-going 41-year-old former drinker who may have a cigar outside; wife doesn’t complain too much about snoring; smell is minimal; Braves fan, Yankees hater; sense of humor.
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Interested? Contact me and I’ll pass along the info to him.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
I had planned to attend this year’s event, but will unfortunately be able to attend. I was about to cancel my king-size bed at the aforementioned hotel, but now I smell a whiff of opportunity in the air.
My reservation goes to the highest bidder…starting…
NOW!
September 18th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
A second reader has offered up a room in a nearby hotel…
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She writes:
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I’ve got a room at the Copley Square Hotel for Friday and Saturday nights, and would love to split the cost and space with someone. It’s on the Back Bay at 47 Huntington Avenue and is less than a mile away from the Park Plaza.
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I’m a designer at the Sun Journal up in Maine and will be coming in early Friday morning. I’m an almost-done MU masters student (finishing that thesis! Swear!) from North Carolina designing news up here in the Great North.
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Again, if you’d like to talk with her, send me an e-mail: [ charles.apple@pilotonline.com ] and I’ll relay it to her.
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Keep ‘em comin’, folks!
September 19th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Ok, so since no one placed any bids for my reservation at the Park Plaza Hotel (hmmmph…newspaper people…bunch of friggin’ cheapskates) and the spacious king-sized bed that awaits, I’ll open it up to the first caller on the Post-Dispatch phone lines.
Call 314.340.8304 and the reservation is yours no strings attached. I’ll call the hotel and get them to switch the reservation of to you, and, more importantly, your credit card.
Ok…one string…bring me back the coolest item of convention swag from EVERY table with a display at the conference.
Be the first caller and this dee-lux prize is yours.
September 19th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
And the winner of the big Park Plaza Hotel reservation giveaway extravanganza is…
(INSERT DRUMROLL HERE)
..Scott Griffin, Design Editor of the Republican-American in Waterbury, Connecticut.
Let’s all give him a big round of applause.