Room Block

A hotel room block is a group of guest rooms that a hotel sets aside for an event at a group rate to be booked and paid for by the attendees. Conventions negotiate this as part of their hotel contract. There is usually a minimum number of rooms that must be booked in order to get the discount rate and other amenities from the hotel, a cutoff date after which the hotel will no longer hold rooms at that rate, and a penalty charge the con has to cover if the minimum isn’t met.

“Room block” also refers to the desirable but often difficult to achieve practice of putting all of the convention members in rooms near each other rather than scattered throughout the hotel when the con isn’t large enough to use all the guest rooms.

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Conrunning

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