New England LAN.....?

Lessons in "event planning"

1.  Start at least 6 months ahead of time.....that is definitely not too early.

2.  Have a budget in mind.  Yikes!  Everything is soooooo expensive.

3.  Settle on a date ahead of time, but be flexible.  Another date could be less expensive or more available.

4.  Put lots of feelers out to various meeting places.  And they will all call you back at the same time!

5.  Hotels are simply a place to sleep.  Why do they cost so much??

6.  Hotels.com lists every single hotel in the area you are interested in.  One can go blind looking at all of them.  But the good thing is they also give "prices starting at" so you don't need to bother even contacting the $300/night room rates.

7.  Reserving a block of rooms saves $$$.

8.  Ahhhh, Boston. 

All of this I learned just this afternoon.  I have done much of the research, and have found that if a meeting room is "cheap", the guest rooms will be outrageous, and vice-versa.  It is interesting......and I'm tired!