OK, here goes . . .  I've been unable to reach my contact, Jenny, at Holiday Inn for more than 2 weeks.  Left her 2 VMs and 3 emails.  Nothing.  I decided to send one last Em & give it 24 hrs. I knew something was wrong.  Within 2 hrs I got a call from a Cynthia at H.I.  Jenny no longer with the company & Cynthia now taking over.  We set up meeting for today.

As soon as we sat down she said there was some issues & the contract wasn't complete.  Told her my copy was complete & signed, I have it right here! She looked at it & said there is a slight problem.  First, all of the contract wasn't in their file & Jenny booked another party for 150 people on the exact same date as our party & gave them our room!  She proceeded to tell me they would need to move us to the smaller room so the larger party could have the larger room.  With that I told her that I have a signed and executed contract dated 1-9-18, what date is the other contract signed?  Bet it wasn't before that!  She seemed flustered and said she didn't know what else to do.  I told her if they move us it will be breach of contract so she better go get her boss. 
Dee the mgr came out. She pulled the other contract and sure enough the crazy lady (Jenny, the one who got fired) signed another contract 3 weeks ago for the same space.  Dee looked at both contracts and then apologized to me and said they would definitely honor mine and she would have to break the news to the other group.  You can't imagine how stressful it was being told there was nothing that could be done & having to get rather pointed with them and telling them I was not changing anything.  Then they asked if they could make a copy of my contract since pages were missing from theirs.  Just another day in hotel life and dealing with incompetent people.  That's why you always get a good copy of your contract.  All's well that ends well.

Check the Attending List, it's really growing.  Can hardly wait till September!!