I have two decent options for the summer Face-to-Face, both for the weekend of July 12-14, 2024:
Option #1: Minneapolis, at the airport Embassy Suites. They'd give us a room that's about 1200 sq ft (not huge but doable) and sleeping rooms would be $164 king/$174 double. It has the nice Embassy breakfast plus free wifi (in meeting space and guest rooms), free shuttle to the airport and Mall of America, $10/night parking. There is a pool.
Option #2: Chicago, at the airport Doubletree where we were in 2014. The room is about 1500 sq ft, sleeping rooms are $179/night. It has a free shuttle to the airport, $15 parking ($15 in/out parking is across the street at the Embassy), and free wifi in the guest rooms only. Meeting space wifi is very high ($23/person/day). No pool.
I favor Minneapolis simply because I'm very grumpy about the meeting space wifi. What are your thoughts?
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Tue Oct 31, 2023 12:18 pm
As a destination, Chicago is hard to beat. The bigger meeting space might be handy, too. But the wifi issue seems to be an understandable deal-killer for you operationally.
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Tue Oct 31, 2023 12:38 pm
The Allied Axis is obviously in favor of the Minneapolis F2F. It is a nice location, have held many meetings there over the years, I believe it comes with a 100% Fun Guarantee, which is hard to find these days.
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Tue Oct 31, 2023 12:39 pm
Dallas? It is north central time.
Chicago - easier to get to for most.
Minny - would have to give in to that dratted AA bunch!
Chicago - cretins on that wifi
Minny - long time, no see
Chicago - we know it "works"
Minny - love the Embassy Suites
Sadly, and amazingly, I lean Minny.
(but would go to either)
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Posted:
Tue Oct 31, 2023 12:53 pm
Thus far, our summer FTF has always been east of the Mississippi, which counts out Denver, Vegas, Dallas/Ft. Worth, etc. I figure we have one out west every year in Tempe and would like to have the other one on the other side of the country.
For Chicago: It's possible that the public wifi would reach into the meeting space (the Duet room). Or it's possible we could hotspot. I would probably pay the stupid fees just to be sure and feel really icky about it. *sigh*
Chicago's more of a destination. The Embassy has a pool. Somebody should probably check the baseball schedule.
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Tue Oct 31, 2023 12:56 pm
Minneapolis is the best option by far we all know this.
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Tue Oct 31, 2023 12:59 pm
Chicago
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Tue Oct 31, 2023 1:02 pm
Doc Steele - Chicago by a mile
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Angus - Chicago
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Tue Oct 31, 2023 1:51 pm
While I would love to take the family to Chicago, I can't argue with how much cheaper it would be to go to Minneapolis.
I have to vote for Minny.
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Tue Oct 31, 2023 1:52 pm
Den, Deeders, Studcraft, Crambus, Philthy, Chad, Bill - Minneapolis
We already did Chicago, time for some love up north.
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Tue Oct 31, 2023 3:22 pm
Neon prefers Chicago.
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Tue Oct 31, 2023 4:03 pm
Milwaukee
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Tue Oct 31, 2023 4:53 pm
I took a poll of roughly four people and will include the results for all in a single post instead of drawing out the thread like ChiefI pulling, well, a thread.
I vote Minneapolis. Myself votes Minneapolis. Me votes Minneapolis.
Jerman has no preference so I will put his vote in the Minneapolis bucket.
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