Thread: Convention Cancelled

Sorry guys,

I received the email below from Charlie Larman a couple of days ago. Prior to this I was not aware of any deadline and thought Charlie had it all handled including having banners made up and was preparing news releases, etc....We did have firm committments from Classic Shaving, Vintage Blades, TQH, Mamma Bear, Barberia Italia, Truefitt & Hill Corporate and I thought Charlie was following up on the table fees:

From:"Charlie Larman" To:"'Lynn Abrams'"
Subject: hotel rooms Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 11:22:32 -0400 I spoke to the hotel today…at this time there are no reservations for rooms…if people have registered they have not done so under the convention code…I need to know who they are so I can apply them to the 5 room guarantee…if they do not reserve rooms before aug 20 they will not get the 199 rate…I have no intention of getting stuck for five rooms…if no reservations are made before the 19 of aug I will withdraw my guarantee which will basically pull the plug on the convention…advise me on what you want to do…also I have not received any thing from vendors coming to this convention…if you have received money for tables you need to send the hotel 500 to pay for the meeting rooms…



As a result of this email, I called the hotel and made my reservation. I also called the Sales Director, Bernadette to see what was going on. She advised that Charlie had only asked the hotel to hold 5 rooms at the $199 price and that he had not requested any rooms for Friday night for the event. She indicated that the hotel did not have any more Friday night reservations available at this time. In addition, she advised that the conference room reserves was only 1300 sq. ft. and would only accomodate 35 people at a time and that she had voiced concern previously with Charlie. Bernadette indicated that she might be able to give us 10 rooms at the $199 fee for Saturday, but non for Friday and at best 5 more rooms on Saturday for $257. It became obvious at that point that they would not be able to accomodate us. I asked her to cancel the event and she did at no charge.

I will be cancelling my reservation. I think the only other one made was by Sue.

So........How about we get a committee together between us and the other forums and see if we can plan another event for next spring or summer? I am really sorry guys and take full responsibility for this. Fred, I hope you still want to help.......



Lynn

Ha,

I wasn't planning to attend but it's a pity, as I am sure many others were very excited about the convention. I expected to see lots of interesting videos and photos, not to speak about posts after the event

Cheers
Ivo

That sucks in a big way mate... sorry to hear it went pear shaped on you.

My other half is a marketing and PR exec with Singapore Airlines and I know she tears her hair out at times trying to keep events on track.
Just draw a line under this one and move on... these things happen.

Best wishes for the next event.

Greg Frazer

I am hopeful that we can get a small committee together who will be really committed to getting something like this going and include all the wet shaving communities. Onward and upward.

Lynn

Lynn,

Don't feel bad, these things take a lot of planning. We all appreciate the enormous effort it takes just keeping all of this stuff up.

I smell BS. I know positively without a doubt that they had my reservation because I spoke with them personally a few weeks ago, as I posted in another thread.

Glad to find out this soon though. I'd have hated to have bought nonrefundable airline reservations and then have it go sideways.

Thanks for the effort, Lynn. I think cancelling is the best course of action.

I am really sorry to hear this...either misunderstanding or bs i am glad got cought on time.
If you guys are interested in organizing something similar here in California i will be more than glad to help put everything together... i have a friend who might be able to help too...
Classic shaving are located here in palm springs, i know it would be in their interest...
Just a thought ..let me know...
Sorry Lynn , i hope you don't feel bad you haven't failed anybody.
Be well.

Just to clarify my earlier post: I'm not calling BS on Lynn. I'm sure that he did everything he could to make this convention happen.

Originally Posted by Jonedangerousli

Just to clarify my earlier post: I'm not calling BS on Lynn. I'm sure that he did everything he could to make this convention happen.

I think your earlier post was plenty clear!

Lynn, I am really sorry that this happened as I was just talking to my wife about this the other day and was getting ready to make my reservation and flight arrangements etc. So glad that I looked at this before making flight arrangements that may have been non refundable.

The thing that I was hoping mostly was to meet you Lynn and people that I have emailed or talked to on the phone.

Thanks for all of the work and planning on your part and Charlie's it was very much appreciated. I guess from each experience we learn something so hoping next spring or whenever will be a bit less hectic.

Here is to the hotel........