GSA meeting, San Francisco, Nov 2007

Gerontological Society of America meeting 2007.

Christina's factotum-administrator person decided to avoid the on-line information for the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco, and discovered the main direct line, in to the bookings manageress in the hotel. The end result is that all five of the Reading contingent are booked in for all the days of the conference, that is, the nights of 15 16 17 18 and 19th November 2007.

You may be interested to hear that the lady manageress at the Hilton reports that she had had all kinds of irate people from around the planet phoning her up to complain about the website. Partly the problem was with the parochial conference organisers. No-one had thought that any attendees would need to come in early to overcome jet lag. And they had put an upper limit of 4 bodies per booking. And also, the website was broken and reporting there to be no space when actually there is plenty.

It also transpires that for many people, dealing with the Hilton was so much too difficult, that they have instead transferred to other hotels in the vicinity. This further reduces the pressure on the conference space.