All
Please share with your Groups--
The good news is we are halfway towards meeting our room block at the
Hilton Athens for the 802 Wireless Interim September 14-19, 2014. The bad
news is we still have half our room block to fill and July 7 is the
cut-off date for us to make a 20% block reduction without penalty. We
will be looking closely at the pick-up over the next 10 days. If we are
too far from our goal, we will need to reduce the block so if you wait and
we do reduce the block, you may not be able to get the group rate later on.
There is no deposit and you can cancel without penalty up to 30 days
before your arrival date. So book now at
http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/A/ATHHITW-GIEEE-20140911/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG
You will also need your confirmation number when registering for the
Session to qualify for the registration discount
(https://ei.eventinfotech.com.au/ei/rs.esp?id=1231&scriptid=HOME). Another
reason to do it now.
Others things to be aware of: It is hard to predict exactly how many
rooms are needed on a daily basis, especially the days just before and
after the Session (we call those the shoulder days). Unfortunately we can
not adjust the daily blocks automatically. That is a manual process where
we need reallocate from the days that have too many to the days that have
too few. Arinex looks at this daily and adds to the days that are running
low, but if we run out of available rooms on a particular day, and if that
happens on a weekend, we can not readjust until the following Monday. The
result is you might not see any of the group rate rooms displayed. This
may well occur the weekend of July 5,6 since it is just before the July 7
decision point and people tend to wait until the last moment. So please
book during next week, if you can, rather than on the weekend. Much less
chance of a problem.
If you do encounter a problem and have included shoulder days in your
reservation request, try reducing the shoulder days one at a time until
you see the group rates offered and book that. Send your confirmation
number and the dates you would like to have to Sara and me
(ieee802wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, bheile@xxxxxxxx, sarcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx).
Arinex will make the necessary adjustments to your reservation. Or just
send us an email that you encountered difficulties and we will let you
know when you can try again. Please include your target dates so we know
what you need and can factor that into the block decision.
Thanks for your help and cooperation. Let me know if you have any questions.
Regards
Bob
Bob Heile, Ph.D
Chairman Emeritus & Chief Technologist, ZigBee Alliance
Chair, IEEE 802.15 Working Group on Wireless Personal Area Networks
Co-Chair IEEE P2030 Task Force 3 on Smartgrid Communications
Chair IEEE 2030.5 Working Group for Smart Energy Profile 2
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