travel follies

[jay]

The NASA travel office can't reserve most NYC hotels because most aren't FEMA-qualified (meeting fire safety codes), and the ones that are, don't have government rates. The usual dodge is to have the traveler book his/her own reservation directly with a non-FEMA hotel. Fine... I did that for this week.

Except that when my travel to NYC changed from tonight to Thursday night, the travel office changed everything else, but I forgot to cancel my hotel. So I'm getting personally charged $200 for a useless night's non-stay. Sigh. They wouldn't transfer it to a Thursday night stay, saying that they were sold out (although the hotel's website says that there are rooms available). Grr.

Comments

[rosefox]

You can always crash here, if you're desperate.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

That's very kind, thanks! Although I do have a Thursday night reservation near Penn Station.

OTOH, would you be interested in dinner Thursday?

[rosefox]

Certainly! I'm off work at 5:30, and my office is at 500 5th Ave. near 42nd; if you're free then, why don't you just come meet me there? Otherwise, we can pick somewhere else to meet. I don't know where you'll be during the day.