Hotel Options, Mammoth Options

[Andyrew]

OK, So I'd like to keep an open discussion regarding hotels.

Note prices are list based on a Saturday night.

Mammoth Mountain Inn:
List: 150/night
Parking: Reasonably large, 3 separate areas.
Lounge: Yes, nice
Bar: Yes
Pool: Small Outdoor
Restaurant: Yes
Overall feel: Very nice
Rating: 3 stars, 3.7 rating


Motel 6:
List: 125/night
Parking: Medium+, Wraps building
Lounge: No
Bar: No
Pool: Small Outdoor
Restaurant: No
Overall feel: Its a Motel 6
Rating: 2 stars, 3.4 rating


Quality In:
List: 139/night
Parking: Underground
Lounge:Yes
Bar: No
Pool: No
Restaurant: No
Overall Fee: Its a Quality Inn
Rating: 2 stars, 3.5 rating


These are the hotels that I feel could host our group. The quality inn possibly would be completely encompassed by our group but they have 59 rooms.

[ConeDodger]

Any of them work for me. Now here is where it gets tricky. We can ask for a group rate, and we can tell them we had X number of people at our last event in Medford in April. What we cannot do is sign an agreement. We have had some tense post event months after one event when Doubletree threatened to sue for about $5000 IIRC for failure to perform. That is, they agreed to a room rate, if we agreed to a certain number of rooms. I think we fell 8 rooms short.
What I have found is that generally, you can find a better rate online than they offer as a group rate for the big chains like Marriot. For example, the Montbleu for the second Tahoe event offered a group rate $40 / night higher than we paid just booking online.
But in any case, if they don't offer a decent group rate, at least they should accommodate our outside activities...
Nice work Andrew...