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Originally Posted by Imortyl Pussycat
Guys, for the love of God or whomever you worship, Please put up the schedules at least 8 weeks in advance for international travelers. I cannot tell you how many times I have booked a flight to save a few hundred dollars early only to find out I have to spend a few hundred more that I don't need to because the dates of the conventions are misleading. Misleading = date range that includes a day on EITHER side that there is no actual show floor. Those of us getting reimbursed for shows are usually covered for the actual show floor days. So, if you say it ends on X date and that day is full, I can stay that full day and night and leave in the morning. If you say it starts on X date I don't want to find out after I've booked the flight that it only includes, for example, golf and a party.
I get in early or stay late and pay for it sometimes because I chose to for sure. I would appreciate it if budgeting the extra expenses is my own choice, not a necessity because the schedules are not posted early enough.
Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Anyone else have this dilemma or am I the only one that tries to book flights in a timely manner to save the company cash?
p.s. this is not directed at any one convention group, it's happened at some point over the years with all of them.
p.p.s. yes, i am hormonal right now....i'm a woman, i can't help it. where's the chocolate?
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Hi Julie,
You got some valid points there. I will give it some thought on how to do that better in the future.
In our case, the leaving day, where there is only the wine tasting, I assume we could take out of the announced dates.
As for our "entertainment day" I would think a lot of employees actually like to see it included in the show dates - which makes it easier to get the day signed of. And some people have actually confirmed to me in the past, that they actually did great business during our golf, karting and lunch events - so it is not all fun and play - also work to some people. Every person does their business differently in the end.
As Bruce mentioned, from our side, I try to kill any confusion by immediately putting up a show schedule when announcing a new show, that states our usual 4 days: "Entertainment Day", "Show Day 1", "Show Day 2" and "Leaving Day" - again, there are good arguments to kill the "Leaving Day" from the show schedule the next time... We will give it some though.
And now - in order to erase any confusion:
TES 2014 PRG:
22. September 2014 - Entertainment Day
23. September 2014 - Show Day 1
24. September 2014 - Show Day 2
And I will not mention the Leaving Day on September 25th here in any way
Kindest regards,
Andreas
P.S.: And if ever in doubt about our dates again - just hit me up directly via email or Skype. I am usually quite responsive ;)