Where to Meet?
By Ed. Filed in Life |
A few years ago I had great success planning face to face meetings for a group of friends on the internet. I made arrangements with various hotels and restaurants for meeting space and guest rooms at a discount, and for a party room or banquet room for at least one group dinner during the events.
Several of those same friends have approached me recently about planning more meetings this summer. I will be looking for a hotel in Atlanta, GA for the first meeting, hopefully in late June. Atlanta is a good central location for people along the East Coast and the southern states, like Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
The second city that we’ll go to in July will either be St. Louis, MO or Chicago, IL. As much as I love Chicago, it has been very hard to find hotels that are willing to give good discounts on the guest rooms and most of them want to charge for the use of their meeting space. The hotels in St. Louis have been much more accommodating in the past. But I plan to check with both metro areas and see if conditions have changed.
If everything works out as planned, we might have time in August for a meeting in either Buffalo, NY or Dallas, TX. To be honest, about the only time of year I am willing to go as far north as Buffalo is August. I just can’t abide the cold weather, but in August the upstate New York is just gorgeous, and you can easily drive across the bridge and spend some time in Canada.