Well, I promised more information about LOBOC, that is the Long Beach and Orange County m/c club. As I mentioned, we have been the host hotel for LOBOC since 2002. Before they left last year, they made reservations for this year, 2011. Without any warning we were dropped in favour of another hotel close by. To say we were disappointed is a real understatement of how we felt when we found out. Nobody called us, nobody came round to tell us and this is a group we have bent over backwards to accomodate for what would have been their 10th year. We turned away prospective guests because we were 'full', about 40 nights were lost because we believed we were still hosting the event. One of the members did eventually drop by. Apparently no-one wanted to tell us because the hotel (alright, it's Helios), is for sale and they were hedging their bets incase the hotel was sold and the new owners wouldn't honour the bookings!!! We know who is behind it all because he has made no bones about preferring Helios to us because "they have vegetation"
The event was supposed to be this weekend and we heard they have cancelled on Helios at very short notice. We don't know why yet but I can't imagine the Helios boys being too pleased. I guess they have burnt both bridges now. Where will you stay next year, huh? Warning all Palm Springs hoteliers .... watch out and make sure you get a sizable (non-refundable) deposit. Anyway, we were full this weekend and were able to take people wanting to stay for longer than a weekend so we ended up MUCH better off!
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