Wi10 Room-Sharing Forum Launches on BookWeb

In response to the extraordinary popularity of the Grove Park Inn, the 2015 Winter Institute host hotel, the American Booksellers Association has launched an online forum for potential room-sharing arrangements. Booksellers with reservations at the Grove Park Inn from February 8 – 12 who would be willing to share their room with a fellow bookseller on the hotel waitlist are invited to post first, so that waitlisted booksellers can reply.

Forty roll-away beds that can be added to rooms already booked by attendees will be available to ABA members on a first-come, first-served basis.

While making arrangements, booksellers should keep the following in mind:

• You must already be registered for Wi10 to participate in the forum. This does not affect anyone's position on the waitlist for the Winter Institute itself.
• The cost is $40 per roll-away bed per night. The overall room rate per bookseller will reduce accordingly, as room sharers split the total cost.
• Booksellers with reserved rooms should post first; waitlisted booksellers can then reply if they are interested.
• The maximum capacity is four people to a room, with no more than one rollaway bed per room.
• Most importantly: Booksellers should notify ABA’s Maria Rodriguez about their final arrangements, so the hotel waitlist can be updated. Roll-away beds will be assigned in the order in which ABA is notified of a room share.

No one with an existing reservation at the Grove Park Inn is obligated to share; the forum was created to provide an opportunity for possible arrangements. Those who do offer to accommodate their wait-listed colleagues will be doing so as a gesture of goodwill and generosity.

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