From: "Robert MacIntosh" <macbuccfo at msn.com>
To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Idea for DC in 2011 Bid (fwd)
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:54:50 -0400

>From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
>>To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: Idea for DC in 2011 Bid (fwd)
>Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 10:13:27 -0400
>
> > mike.nelson at seahunt.org 7/5/2005 9:20:00 AM >>>
> >Quoting dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>:
> >
> >> >From rassf.
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >>
> >> >I was thinking about the problem DC could have with it's 2011 bid
> >and I
> >> >think I have a possible solution. I talked to Sam Lubell and some
> >> >others about how a hotel convention is possible in DC. I can't find
>
> >the
> >> >e-mail address of the chair to talk about the hotel that may be a
> >back
> >> >up in case of no downtown hotel.  Would some from that bid
> >please
> >> >contact me? My e-mail address is Tstidm56 at aol dot com.  This
> >is to
> >> >protect me from spam.
> >
> >If it's the Connecticut Avenue hotels, there's just not enough large-
> >scale
> >function space for the "big tent" events like the Masquerade or Hugo
> >Awards
> >Ceremony.  Plus, we would have to run shuttle buses between the
> >hotels.
>
>Shuttle buses: been there, done that.  You don't want to do that.
>
>You really, really, really don't want to do that.
>
>Probably cheaper to buy Merto passes for the atttendees.
>
>mjw
>
Have absolutly no intension of even thinking of this. Besides, Connecticut
Ave at rush hour - forgetaboutit! Which is why we are looking (Forloinly it
seems) for the convention hotel next to the convention center (talk about
radical ideas).

Bob MacIntosh