I was sort of excited when Paula said she had gotten the four of us rooms in the Georgia Tech dorms that supposedly were part of the Olympic Village– sounded great – four bedrooms and 2 baths hooked onto 1 gathering room & kitchen and no one would hear my snoring! And it was only $70 bucks apiece per night. Way INexpensive for Atlanta prices…….
Most of us had read some of the small print – but some of the small print was missing or had left out a lot of necessary information for this group who are way past the 'roughing it" stage. I didn’t know that we would have to carry our bags more than a block to the “check in desk” I didn’t know that when they said they would provide linens that they would be threadbare and in a shrink wrapped “ do-it-yourself” bag. I didn’t know that the room lacked even a reading lamp. I didn’t know that when they said that there would be Internet access for each of us, that only one of the four logins would work. I didn’t know that their nicely provided kitchen would not have even ONE utensil and finally when they said they had furniture I didn’t know it would be as hard as the furniture I had in my Chinese apartment. In addition – no TV, radio, pool, ice trays, but there was a mouse.
The thermostat was preset on Artic temperatures but ironically there were little signs above EACH light switch that said “When Not in Use – Save the Juice – Conserve Energy”. The only paper products & toiletries provided were toilet paper & tiny bar soap. Way TOO expensive for their amenities.
Side Note: the NECC conference was good as usual and I got a bunch of new techie ideas to use in the classroom.
