Dallas Convention

[dm.porritt@verizon.net]

Z:

The convention hotel is right downtown, commuter trains run right by it, you can walk to the famous "West End" (or take the train), there are lots of restaurants and from my observation as a traveler, our restaurant prices are better than all but the smallest of small-town coffee shops.  I've lived here for 30 years and I still haven't seen  all the interesting sites.  

dave

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On 7/3/2002 at 8:57 AM Z! Reinhardt wrote:

>Joe --
>
>But isn't it the nature of the hotel business that the farther away you are
>from the city's mainstream, the more overpriced the basic necessities are,
>and the worse the service?  It's the old "Gotcha" phenomenon, and it
>doesn't
>matter whether you're there on the 4th of July or any other day of the
>year.
>
>Rosemont was a case in point.
>
>+ + +
>
>Now ... can anyone talk about the location of the hotel at next year's
>convention?  Will it be closer to mainstream Dallas or will it be out in a
>nobody's-land?  I'm not sure how thrilled I will be facing similar
>circumstances 2 years in a row.
>
>Z! Reinhardt  RPT
>Ann Arbor  MI
>diskladame@provide.net
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett@earthlink.net>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 8:49 PM
>Subject: Convention Through July 4th!/David M. Porritt
>
>
>David,
>Dallas WAS the last convention I went to over the 4th. All of the shops
>were
>closed when we got in and we were way the hell an gone away from the
>mainstream Dallas, so we had to take a cab or eat at the beanery in the
>hotel. Which, by the way, was WAAAAAAAY over priced. And, because of the
>"Skeleton" crew, the service was lousy.
>You asked so I told ya. <G>
>Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)


David M. Porritt, RPT
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275