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Originally Posted by Raid3n
one thing i learned while we were setting up was that the holiday inn staff had no idea the event was happening. the manager had no clue.. was this a breakdown in communication on our side or theirs?
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Hi Morgan, unfortunately I didn't talk to the Holiday Inn staff as I was busy setting up the traffic team in the early a.m. BG Execs had made the event arrangements so I don't know what was said. But I saw that BG had arrived shortly after our Traffic Team arrival to the Silvercity lot, saw the blocked vendor spots, then immediately went straight to the hotel manager to address the matter.
But, honestly, I was not completely surprised that Holiday Inn did not know about our event. I actually expected to see big semi trucks parked along the westside of the silvercity lot upon arriving Sunday morning. This is because, I had visited the lot the Sunday a week before and noticed that the truck drivers parked there overnight to sleep in. I had brought it up in the orientation meeting to be ready to respond to circumstances that we cannot foresee. There's no sense in crying over spilt milk. You simply do what you can with what you have.
If we were able to claim back the rows that Holiday Inn staff took up immediately, then great. But for me, my thoughts were: It's 7:15am, the cones and tents have not been set up, we need to huddle the volunteers, the first roll-in is at 8:00am ..what is the likelihood of multiple Holiday Inn staff (and guests, mind you) moving their cars at 7:30am to accommodate a car show they probably know nothing about?
No not likely we'll get those rows back soon.. so we should probably move forward with the notion that we have lost those spaces for now
others?