Are those the wholesale fees charged by the comp organizer? (I'm assuming yes.)
yep those are the prices on the entry forms. Let the add-ons begin!
Neither student is interested in staying at some other hotel - they want to be onsite (as I would, too). From what I understand, they sent in their registration forms and payments before the deadline, so maybe the block of rooms reserved for comp attendees just wasn’t large enough?
Same here. I always book my hotel room months in advance. Pretty much right after the organizers make them available. I bailed out various Pros in the last who didn't book ahead of time and needed a room and I ended up not going.
Thankfully, my competition Studio does not do the packages. If they did, the budget would allow less competitions. I also book my room ASAP, after 1st comfirming the hotel's cancellation policy. Usually 72 hours.
The studio should contact the comp organizer and see what the options are. They can also try contacting the hotel directly (by phone, trying to talk to an actual person). Sometimes more rooms are added to a block, or sometimes there could be a waiting list (sometimes people cancel rooms). Or the comp organizer can tell them there's nothing they can do, so at least they would know that.Two pro/am couples from my studio are registered to compete at Nashville Starz this month, but the comp hotel doesn’t have any rooms available, so they might not be going after all.
Idk how it works, though. I thought when you registered, the payment covered however many hotel rooms you requested in your forms, but I suppose that only happens if you purchase a comp package. And for all I know, not all comps even offer a bundled package...? My experience is very limited. I seem to remember that our OSB registration included hotel rooms at either the Hyatt Regency or the adjacent Drury Inn, but we weren’t guaranteed which one. (I was lucky both times to stay at the Hyatt - I prefer even a tiny dark closet-sized room, as long as it’s close to the ballroom and Boyko.)
Oooh - do you really think so? I'm somewhat hopeful that they'd realize that if they wanted to compete as either Lead or Follow they'd be getting a competent (but by no means brilliant) partner if they teamed up with me for a dance or two. And I personally don't give a darn if people want to tsk-tsk and snicker about a ridiculous old lady out there on the dance floor with someone who could be a grandkid.....but, I wouldn't want to have a promising young dancer suffer from that kind of association.
As a collegiate dancer, I can confirm that at least some of us (sample size of 1) would love to have more community members be involved. My college actually runs a comp, and we had several older am-am couples compete and do quite well. There's a TBA spreadsheet for collegiate comps, so you could reach out to some people if you wanted; the worst they could do is say no, right?
