{"id":2691,"date":"2005-03-04T09:48:04","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T17:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/03\/04\/2691.html"},"modified":"2005-03-04T09:48:04","modified_gmt":"2005-03-04T17:48:04","slug":"good-old-ramada-plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/03\/04\/good-old-ramada-plaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Good old Ramada Plaza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I'm staying in SF for Potlatch<\/a> this weekend; seemed easier than trying to get to SF by a reasonable hour Saturday and Sunday mornings (which would likely have resulted in my not getting there 'til midafternoon). The hotel is the Ramada Plaza<\/a>, and I'm ~pleased~ to report that my customer-service demon seems to be friends with the reservations people. Or at least distant acquaintances; as these things go, this one wasn't that<\/em> bad.<\/p>\n

Reserved a room there last October; wasn't sure at the time whether Mary Anne was going to come to the con, so got a room for two people, with two beds, just in case. (I have a hard time sleeping in a bed with someone else.) Today it finally occurred to me that I ought to let them know it was just one person, so they could give their two-bed rooms to people who needed 'em. So I called their reservations desk, and had a conversation that went something like this:<\/p>\n

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Me<\/span>: I'd like to change my reservation from a room with two beds to a room with one bed.<\/p>\n

Her<\/span>: So you're calling to tell me your credit card number?<\/p>\n

Me<\/span>: I could do that, but I'm actually calling to change my reservation from a room with two beds to a room with one bed. The other person who was going to be sharing my room isn't coming.<\/p>\n

Her<\/span>: Let me tell you what I've got listed for you: queen-sized room, non-smoking, two people, arriving March 4, leaving March 6, rate is $109 a night.<\/p>\n

Me<\/span> [noticing that the rate is higher than it's supposed to be]: Well, first of all, I'm there for Potlatch—<\/p>\n

Her<\/span>: Oh, you're here for Potlatch? There's a reduced rate, let me change that. [Changes it—and to her credit, does so quickly and easily.]<\/p>\n

Me<\/span>: And when I made the reservation, they told me it was a room with two beds. But now it sounds like you're saying there's just one bed, so that's fine.<\/p>\n

Her<\/span>: Oh, you want a room with two beds? Here, let me change it.<\/p>\n

Me<\/span>: No, wait! I want a room with just one bed! When I called before they said they were giving me two beds, but now I only want one!<\/p>\n

Her<\/span>: Oh, so should I change the reservation from two people to one?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I said yes, and it was fairly smooth sailing from that point on. Or so I think. We'll see what kind of room I end up with.<\/p>\n

I ought to know by now that I really shouldn't try to make such phone calls before breakfast.<\/p>\n

I should note, btw, that the Ramada Plaza has always been good to me in the past, so I'm willing to write this off as a fluke. And a minor one at that.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m staying in SF for Potlatch this weekend; seemed easier than trying to get to SF by a reasonable hour…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}