Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:47:50 -0500
From: Eva Whitley <eva.whitley at gmail.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: A DC hotels question
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Robert MacIntosh wrote:
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>
> And almost impossible to accomplish, as we began to realize when we started
> to think about those items you happened to mention above. But at the moment
> we were bidding and that was all we could see. As much as we hated the
> Sheraton for destroying the bid, they did us a very big favor. If we have
> beaten Orlando (a very large "If" BTW), fandom would still be beating us
> about the head and shoulders for whatever convention we managed to cobble
> together. Can you imagine 10 to 20 buses running about the hotels ferrying
> fen from local to local? What were we thinking?
>

I've been to that Worldcon. We've had Worldcons that ferried fen from
hotel to hotel, but they had convention centers to work with. Too bad we
can't make it work, because those hotels are in a great location.--Eva