Albuquerque is a fair sized city with a number of motels and hotels. If you
don't mind driving a few miles, there are plenty of choices at lower prices
than in the city center near the convention site. The SSA convention is
unlikely to take more than a few percent of the available rooms metro-wide.
In 2000, I stayed at a nice motel on east Central for, IIRC, $45 a night.

However, if we are unlucky, there will be another meeting at the same time
with 10,000 attendees.

Bill Daniels


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On Dec 5, 8:57 pm, John Murphy wrote:
About a week ago I tried to get a hotel room at the Doubletree during
the SSA convention. I asked for the SSA special price and was told
that they had no records of the SSA or any special room rates. They
quoted me a rate of $159.00. I then called back this morning and the
reservation agent told me that they had a block of rooms for the SSA,
but they were all sold out, and that the entire hotel was sold out
during the convention dates. She tried to book me at the Embassy
Suites, which is owned by the same company, and which was
significantly more expensive than the $99.00 SSA special price. I
declined. I called back this afternoon just to check, and they had
rooms at the SSA price. I booked immediately.

I just wanted to let you all know about the problems so you didn't
give up the first time you called the Doubletree. I'm not sure what
the problem is on their end, but they seem to be really disorganized.

Burt Compton will be there with his DG-1000. I wonder if I could rent
out one of the seats from him and just sleep in the convention
center. do the seats recline?

maybe i could just pack an air mattress and find an empty glider
trailer somewhere.