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Originally Posted by Dena Hmmm... 250?!!!!!
I think that is definitely aiming high. But if you can pull it off, more power to you!
My concern is the distance. You can probably get a lot of the people around that certain area that it will be held at. But you have to think about this:
1. travel.. not just travel.. but traveling with your yorkie
2. money
3. pet friendly hotels.. more money
4. transportation. With 250 people and yorkies. Is everyone going to rent a car? more money
5. people will say they will go and then not show up, thus leaving you or whoever is in charge in a bind.
6. have you gotten any thoughts about this from Admin? |
I envision a hotel with a ballroom where you fly in, take a free shuttle to the convention hotel and stay there the majority of the time. No need for a car and people could share rooms with 4 people to a room. If there are outside excursions or events, we could arrange for bus transportation. There will be a cost but it should be nominal with these large numbers.
If we have one meal event, the Fur Ball, the hotel will usually reduce the rate of the rooms significantly for large groups. Not everyone would have to attend the Fur Ball but if 100 people bought tickets we could make it work and maybe even donate some to Millbusters or whatever organization we choose.
If people flew in on Friday night or saturday morning and the main events were in the hotel ballroom Saturday and then people left on Sunday. During the day Saturday we would have different speakers, a vendors room where members are seeling their wares a meet up area for people to meet and mingle and booths for individual breeders, rescue groups, service dogs, therapy dogs and whatever.