Comments | j_koch: $500 a night

j_koch

$500 a night

Dec 08, 2008 19:28

The closest thing our agency has to a CIO has been asked to present the first version of a pretty big ($750K) open source application development project I helped manage, etc at an EPA conference this week. Since my school semester ended last week, I decided to try and get out of town to psuedo-celebrate the end of a pretty interesting management/ ( Read more... )

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dirtywest December 9 2008, 02:47:04 UTC

Wow. That is pretty ridiculous. You'd be much better served using that money at an all inclusive =)

jscro December 9 2008, 14:38:39 UTC

Pretty standard though. The place I stayed at in Tennessee for a big conference was $400 a night if you didn't get the conference "package". They may be hotels/resorts; but in reality they are corporate retreats.

j_koch December 9 2008, 14:57:45 UTC

yeah. i realize its pretty much become the norm, but I wonder if in this economy they can be that proud of a hotel room.

may other thought is just to wonder how much more (per unit) products cost the consumer due to corporate retreats and other unnecessary expenses. I hear alot of companies are having to cut back on Xmas bonuses, etc this year.

jscro December 9 2008, 15:04:18 UTC

Oh yeah, this whole model of business has to change. I never understood how these hotel/conference places were profitable in the first place, but apparently they are (were).

dryad73 December 9 2008, 15:22:14 UTC

That's a crazy rate even if businesses or corporations are paying it. Why would they agree to it? I don't get it.

jscro December 9 2008, 15:27:46 UTC

They don't, you are buying "packages". They make it prohibatively expensive to purchase rooms outside of buying one through the conference you are attending.

j_koch December 9 2008, 15:57:57 UTC

It just seem like they are "pulling a Plaxico"...and shooting themselves in the foot, I mean leg.

I probably would have paid $200 a night (more than I am planning to now) for the convenience of staying onsite AND I wouldn't have to get a rental car, but instead they are getting zero dollars from me. Hell, I probably would have paid them too much for dinner and maybe even a spa treatment.

jscro December 9 2008, 16:02:08 UTC

This seems to be standard practice both of these types of places I've stayed at.

I bet the restaurants will be prohibatively expensive as well.