RE: COMMON at Gaylord Palm, Orlando

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Jim,

I feel for you, but understand their train of thought.  If you use on 
online server, such as yahoo, to look for hotel rooms which one will be 
cheaper?  The hotel room that charges you $69/night + $10 night for 
parking, or the hotel that charges you $78 including parking?  The first 
hotel, even thought it costs you a buck more.

Hidden fee's suck, but if you want to run with the big dogs you have to do 
it.  Give you another example.  We had a MAJOR customer's purchasing agent 
tell us we lost a contract because we rolled the setup costs into the 
piece price.  The other bidder charged the setup separately.  Our total 
bid was lower.  However the agent got a bonus for lowering the piece 
price.  Closing a plant and laying off people really sucks.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 





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I'm fairly used to paying for hotel parking in dense cities such as New
York, San Francisco, Chicago -- where the hotels have to pay to outsource 
to
private garages.  I try to stay away from these chains that own acres of
land and still charge paying guests additional fees for parking.

-Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Ericson [mailto:Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 7:48 PM
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Subject: Re: COMMON at Gaylord Palm, Orlando



Al I  agree Gaylord hotel/resorts are  off in the middle of no where and 
they make having a car on site  not a palatable choice when you add it all
up.

HELL I did not  have a car  and they tried to charge me for valet parking 
for 7 nights in Orlando.

At 05:30 PM 9/16/2003 -0400, Al Barsa wrote:





>With all due respect to my friend Glenn, I didn't like Nashville either.
>At least in Orlando, you could have rented a car and gone out for a
>reasonable dinner.  In Nashville, you were an on-site prisoner, and 
parking
>was expensive.  I much prefer a venue like San Antonio, where you can 
walk
>to restaurants outside of the hotel, which prohibits the hotel from
>gouging.
>
>Al
>
>Al Barsa, Jr.
>Barsa Consulting Group, LLC
>
>400>390
>
>914-251-1234
>914-251-9406 fax
>
>http://www.barsaconsulting.com
>http://www.taatool.com
>
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