ANST - Cabin fever

[Dennis Grace]

Salut Cozyns,

Lyonel aisai.

First, let me apologize for sounding like a hothead.  I'm not suggesting 
that we sue the GW stewards, boycott, or otherwise make their lives 
miserable.  I'm annoyed.  I'm not angry. (Yes, Cozyns, this is what I'm 
like when I'm annoyed.  No, you don't want to see me when I get angry.)

Second, I don't want to give anyone the impression that my group--or any 
other group who paid for but will not receive cabins--have been robbed 
or otherwise suffered a major loss of funds.  The GW stewards have 
promised to reimburse us for the difference between the cabin price and 
the price for tenting.

There are, however, some very real problems arising from this situation.  
I've stated some of these already, but I want to be sure I'm being 
perfectly clear on this.

One: the top twelve people on the waiting list have been mistreated. 
They deserve special recompense.  (Perhaps the GW stewards have already 
planned something.  I don't know.  They did not share this information.)

Two: the rest of us have paid a premium price for reservations but--to 
the best of my knowledge--we have no reservations.  Oh, they'll let us 
attend, and we'll get our partial refunds.  But do we now have space 
reserved with Ansteorra, or are they expecting us to make a second set 
of reservations?  I'm worried that we've paid for first class tickets 
and will be told to ride in the luggage compartment.

Three: the cabin allotment system this year and last was...let's just 
say ill-considered.  As long as they didn't receive more than 120 
reservations on 1 December, the system appeared to work just fine.  Of 
course, those of us making the reservations didn't care for the extra 
money we had to shell out for special delivery service to get the 
registration package in on *exactly* the 1st of December, but it was no 
skin off the Meridien noses.  I asked before the GW VII reservations 
went in, "So what happens if you get 200 reservations on 1 December?"  
Their response was, "First come, first served."  This is a meaningless 
answer.  The 200 reservations arrived on the same day.  The postal 
service would have delivered them as a bundle.  How can the stewards 
tell which were "first"?  They can't.  This is essentially a blind 
drawing.  

Finally, how will the GW stewards handle this quandary?  Will they 
change their system at all?  Will they simply close the cabins to 
reservations next year?  

lo vostre por vos servir
Sir Lyonel Oliver Grace

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