<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div>Hi Michael,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The hotel with which we organised the discount rate was chosen based on the convenience and practicality with respect to the conference. If people wish to leave the events we provide and go out drinking afterwards then the Uber app is their friend. But, being the Gold Coast, there's a multitude of accommodation options so I'm sure there's something that fits your requirements.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br class=""></div><div>David</div><div>...</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20 Jun 2023, at 8:13 am, Michael Hobl <<a href="mailto:michael@hobl.com.au" class="">michael@hobl.com.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I know multiple people, myself included, who are deliberately choosing to stay elsewhere due to the impracticality of the venue with relevance to the usual evening social activities that intertwine the conference itself each year.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I also know of delegates who are, like many do, leveraging the conference as an opportunity to take the wife/kids somewhere new-- they're not going to win any brownie points putting them in front of the dolphins for a week straight.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The resort being used as overflow accomodation for hospital care also doesn't help matters.<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class="">- Michael</div></div></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 7:49 AM <<a href="mailto:david@hughes.id" target="_blank" class="">david@hughes.id</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Good morning everyone,<br class="">
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We've seen lots of registrations purchased for the conference but not a great deal of bookings at the hotel. While we have a reserved block of rooms at a discounted rate, that block reduces in size at various times leading up to the event so we don't end up being charged for rooms you guys aren't using. One of those dates has just passed and 35% of remaining rooms has been handed back. Another date is approaching soon too.<br class="">
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If you have purchased your registration and intend on staying at the conference hotel (and why wouldn't you for the convenience and price! ) then I encourage you to book your rooms in the coming days.<br class="">
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David<br class="">
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