Comments on: Happy new year from me and from PLN http://walt.lishost.org/2009/01/happy-new-year-from-me-and-from-pln/ The library voice of the radical middle. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:49:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2009/01/happy-new-year-from-me-and-from-pln/comment-page-1/#comment-35385 walt Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:31:43 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=969#comment-35385 OK, so the ALA housing registration process is still broken. The website was changed around 7 a.m./9 CST to indicate that it wouldn't open until 10 a.m. CST (which it did). But you were able to *call* before 10 a.m. CST and get a booking. That shouldn't have happened, and you weren't the only one. They should not have been booking via phone before they were ready to book via website. As it happens, the only hotel that was waitlisted was Embassy Suites. (I checked out most of the hotels on the web a few days before 1/5, and for whatever reason, Hotel 71 wasn't on my list of preferences.) OK, so the ALA housing registration process is still broken. The website was changed around 7 a.m./9 CST to indicate that it wouldn’t open until 10 a.m. CST (which it did).

But you were able to *call* before 10 a.m. CST and get a booking. That shouldn’t have happened, and you weren’t the only one. They should not have been booking via phone before they were ready to book via website.

As it happens, the only hotel that was waitlisted was Embassy Suites. (I checked out most of the hotels on the web a few days before 1/5, and for whatever reason, Hotel 71 wasn’t on my list of preferences.)

]]> By: Peter Murray http://walt.lishost.org/2009/01/happy-new-year-from-me-and-from-pln/comment-page-1/#comment-35380 Peter Murray Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:33:44 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=969#comment-35380 A postscript to your personal note. I'm still going to face-to-face meetings too (at least until that is cut from the state's budget). And I got tired of refreshing the web page so I called a human at about 10:10am today (EST) and got booked into one of the conference hotels. (Hotel 71, to be exact.) That may be why some of them were already waitlisted... A postscript to your personal note. I’m still going to face-to-face meetings too (at least until that is cut from the state’s budget). And I got tired of refreshing the web page so I called a human at about 10:10am today (EST) and got booked into one of the conference hotels. (Hotel 71, to be exact.) That may be why some of them were already waitlisted…

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