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Starwood Provides A Way to give back with meetings
We at MeetingSoft.com would like to give Kudos to Starwood for this unique way to give back to your community. Starwood Hotels & Resorts and PepsiCo have teamed up to provide more value for your meeting experience. Plus, Starwood is giving you an opportunity to give back to your community. For every meeting booked your company will be entered to win one of four $50,000 charitable grants to be donated to your favorite local cause.
Book by July 31, 2010, and hold your meeting by December 31, 2010. This offer includes:
No one told me about the “Resort Fee”
Have you ever made a planned a trip, made a reservation, thought you were being money smart and staying within your budget, until the hotel hits you with all of these “out of the blue fees? Based on a great article from CNN, most consumers do not know about all the hidden and fine print charges that hotels charge, when AMI plans your trip, we use our close contacts and make sure you dont have surprise charges.
Some Hotels Serve Up Free Phone Calls
The following we thought was an interesting story by Gary Stoller in USA TODAY. We all need to communicate when we travel and some hotels are working with business travelers to make it easier and cheaper.
Business travelers who rely on cellphones to avoid exorbitant charges for using hotel room phones may want to reconsider.
An increasing number of hotels provide free local calls, and some provide free long-distance calls within the USA. That's a big switch for many hotel chains that profited from charging guests to use the hotel's land-line phones before cellphones and Internet communication became widespread.
Union Issues Heat Up in Boston and Chicago
Of 98 housekeepers fired from Boston-area Hyatt hotels, 77 have rejected the company's offer to place them in jobs with a staffing company. According to the Boston Globe, the employees, who were earning $15 an hour, were let go from the Hyatt Regency Boston, the Hyatt Harborside and the Hyatt Regency Cambridge and replaced with workers from an Atlanta staffing company charging $8 an hour.