The hotel I work at along with every other hotel in the city is sold out...and we're overbooked by 1 room. I'm not sure who let that by but it really sucks. I heard that some of the hotels in the city are overbooked by 10 or 11 rooms. :noes:

 

Holy crap. Is there an event going on in your city?

 

No, there's about 5 events going on. Some huge religious conference, a golf tournament, junior national swimming championships, fine arts festival, and the state fair. It's like an extra 30,000 people in town this week. :run:

 

I heard hoopfest in Spokane is absolutely awful.

 

Looks like people are going to be sleeping in our meeting rooms. :uhhok:

 

Crazy.
About 30 minutes from downtown our hotels are full, so yeah. I try to avoid anywhere around downtown that weekend.
The Ironman goes through my city(about 1/3 of a mile from me) that gets crazy too..

 

dont you guys have some big running event? draws national competitors? or was it washington thats the one with one coming up?

my cuz was telling me bout it cuz his company is sending him out to run it and frontin all his costs and entry fees. its like 2 g's to enter

 

That's not unusual at all. When I was in the industry we typically overbooked by by 10% of all rooms. All of the hotels that I worked in were over 225 rooms, so on a night when we were sold out we would have 23-35 rooms over capacity.

I was in the business for 20 years, 15 as a Chief Engineer or Director of Maintenance and Facilities Engineering.

 

Aside from the Portland Marathon, nothing comes to mind. Most full city marathons draw national contenders, but its nothing compared to the Boston Marathon or anything.

 

Spokane(well the area.) has a couple. Coeur d'Lane has the IronMan, which is a triathlon.
Spokane has Bloomsday, which attracts many runners from all over the world(The past few years runners from Kenya have won it, I think). Its a public race so anyone can join.