At 09:24 AM 7/7/2003 -0700, John Burke wrote:
>As an aside, perhaps someone out there in the ether knows how these
>reservation systems work and can explain how even though both conference
>hotels told me (their web sites AND 800-number reservation centers) that
>they had no rooms available 8/10-8/15 at any price, I was able to book a
>room through expedia.com at the headquarters hotel for less than the
>conference rate.

As I understand it, Expedia (and others) buy blocks of rooms at preferred
rates and then re-sell them within their own system.  That means that the
Expedia rooms do not show on the main hotel reservations system as being
available and visa versa.  I assume that as the date draws near, there may
be a mechanism for Expedia to turn the rooms back to the hotel.



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