I think we could be talked into it with little difficulty...
bob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Joseph H [mailto:AlexanderJosephH@Waterloo.deere.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 10:50 AM
> To: 'Amici Triumphi'
> Subject: VTR-99
>
>
> Advance Planning for VTR National Convention
>
> I have a line on some rooms in Portland, ME. They are $75.00
> instead of the
> $120.00 at the host hotel.
>
> Additional features include beach front on the ocean, a light
> house, old
> fort. Probably no restaurant, bar, pool or spa. About 2.5
> miles from the
> host hotel.
>
> This "Inn" is maintained by.....see more detail below from
> Maine contact:
>
> The $75 rooms are in the Inn that a local technical college
> runs for its
> hospitality program. I have been told that they are the nicest in the
> Portland area (if not the whole state). The possible
> "downside" is that
> they are ~ 2 1/2 miles from the host hotel, and there's
> probably no other
> amenity that goes with them (bar, restaurant, pool, spa...
> etc.), but there
> is a great beach, a museum, a lighthouse and the remains of
> an old fort!
> Really, all that is required to get the $75 rate is to get 4 of them
> booked. Given the price differential, I don't think that
> will be too hard
> to do, but I think we should move on this as quickly as
> possible because we
> already have all the other "primo" rooms booked for the
> weekend, and so the
> other places will start to fill quickly.
>
> *******************************************************************
>
> OK guys, which FOT wants to jump in on this with me? Need multiples of
> 4....don't know how many multiples there are available.
>
> I am also pursuing additional information, such a the best
> ferry to Nova
> Scotia. I know that there are others who are planning to extend their
> travels to include some additional touring....Bill
> Burroughs/Irv Korey, etc.
>
> (Currently, we plan to leave following BRIC, tour the North
> East and then
> land in Portland for the last 2 or 3 days of the VTR)
>
> Regards,
>
> Joe
>
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