I am a Patron member. (because we want to support bridge) I called to get a room for SD and I can't get a room for the whole tournament. No rooms available Thu and Sat. and this was 5 months before the tournament.
My decision is to go to SD and go home Thu morning. I'm not going to hotel hop for 4 days.
I am under 100 miles to SD which is the only reason I am going.
Another thing that most always happens when we go east - there is never a king bed by the time we get there. Even though we have always asked for a king when we reserve through the patron member side and it is clearly on the confirmation that we had reserved king room.
I understand that ACBL has to book far in advance and can't predict what will happen.
I still think something went wrong somewhere.
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Plus... it's free!