AATSEEL '98 Hotel Reservations

[Jerry Ervin]

Dear Colleagues,

Several people have written to me recently about the availability of rooms
at the AATSEEL '98 hotel, saying they had been told rooms are no longer
available at the Renaissance Parc 55 for one or more nights.  I am pleased
to report that so far, anyway, the hotel is being most accommodating.

As of this evening, rooms are still available for all nights of the 
conference, plus a few nights before and after the conference, at the
conference rate.  While it is my impression that no one will be turned
away, I must stress that the hotel is not obligated to provide us rooms at
the conference rate beyond the number that we blocked (we blocked based on
past years' conferences), and we are rapidly approaching that block for
some nights.

If you call the hotel's reservation number and are told there are no longer
rooms available for, say, 30 or 31 December, it may be that our block has
been filled and the reservation desk clerk has not been authorized to sell
rooms for that night beyond our room block.  In such an instance you should
 call the Reservations Manager, Teresa, at 415/403-6610.  She will have the
authority to free up additional rooms.  (Again, they are not obligated to
do this; but so far they've been most gracious about it.)  

I hope it will not be necessary for us to use an overflow hotel, but if you
haven't yet reserved a room at the Renaissance Parc 55 I'd advise you to
call (800/468-3571 or 415/392-8000) sooner rather than later.

See you in SF,

Jerry

PS:  Jonathan, will you please pass this on to the Program Committee?

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Gerard L. (Jerry) Ervin
Executive Director, American Ass'n of Teachers of 
Slavic & E European Languages (AATSEEL)
1933 N. Fountain Park Dr., Tucson, AZ 85715 USA
Phone/fax:  520/885-2663
Email:  76703.2063 at compuserve.com
AATSEEL Home Page: <http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/>
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