Hotel Blocks

Those individuals planning to attend the NARA Electronic Records Workshop and/or the Wed. morning preconference workshop, may have noticed that the Doubletree Hotel has a limited number of blocked rooms available for Monday and Tuesday nights. They are quoting SSA members an inflated rate of $245/night. We have spoken with the Doubletree and the primary problem is that we are scheduled concurrently with another, much larger, conference taking place in the city. The Doubletree expects to be completely sold out for Tuesday night within a few more days.

If you are planning to register for the NARA workshop and/or the Wednesday morning preconference workshop, we encourage you to call the Crowne Plaza Houston-Downtown, located at 1700 Smith Street, Houston, TX 77002. Phone 713-739-8800. We have secured a rate agreement of $149/night. This rate will be available to SSA until May 8 only. The Crowne Plaza is located across the street from the Mickey Leland Federal Building - site of the NARA workshop - and SSA local arrangements will supply transportation to/from Rice on Wed. morning for the preconference workshop.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and we hope you'll join us Wed.-Sat. at the Doubletree for the rest of the conference. Remember to make your hotel reservations before April 28! (The sooner, the better!)