I’ve received a proposal from the last of the hotels I was waiting on out of about a dozen I sent RFPs to. This one gave a blanket quote for a large number of dates, which I will list further down.

As with VC #2, this location is near the airport and has an airport shuttle.

The area with a number of hotels near Austin's airport.

Their room rate is basically $120 a night, but they are only willing to block 10 rooms and that with an “attrition clause” where we’d owe them money if less than 80% of the rooms blocked are used. After those 10 are reserved, the pricing and availability would float like normal.

Their meeting room rate is slightly higher than #3, by about 5%. This puts them in the second lowest cost position- for now. I need to get back to VC #1 with a shortlist of dates to get a meeting room quote.

Here are all the dates they said were available (at present):

  • April 5 – 7, 2019
  • April 19 – 21, 2019
  • April 26 – 28, 2019
  • May 30 – June 2, 2019
  • June 14 – 16, 2019
  • July 12 – 14, 2019
  • July 26 – 28, 2019
  • August 23 – 25, 2019
  • November 1 – 3, 2019
  • November 8 – 10, 2019
  • December 20 – 22, 2019
  • December 27 – 29, 2019
  • January 3 – 5, 2020
  • January 10 – 12, 2020
  • January 17 – 19, 2020
  • January 24 – 26, 2020

Thoughts?

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