Hi Dana!
Re the blocks of rooms - if they work a deal that's similar to people who arrange this sort of thing for Wedding's then they will offer us 1 Value, 1 Moderate and 1 Deluxe...that's all the info I have so far on which resorts the discounts would be for.
I was actually planning on posting our number of responses so far anyway (I think it's best <i>everyone</i> knows how well/bad we are doing on an event from the start so that there are no nasty surprises for anyone if it turns out that we can't get suffient numbers for a particular event!) - though I was planning on doing this after the weekend because it's the weekend crowd I was hoping to catch for our 'errant' interested parties. However, since you've asked...
So far we have approximately <b>150</b> people interested in this. Where people have sent an email saying 1 person (maybe 2) etc. then I have left off the 2nd person - I'd prefer to be in the position of adding on extra people after signing the contracts rather than the other way around so I added things up more with an air of caution than optimism
I think just about everyone has expressed and interest in the Illuminations Dessert Party - so that's going to be really cool...The Adventurers Club is currently at about <b>85</b> people. Which is great, but we definitely need more commitment for that event before I can be in a position to sign a contract though.
However, as I've mentioned previously, counting simply by User Names I'd say we are still 'short' of about a third of the original individual User Names who expressed an interest originally. If the registering was 'real' and we were actually collecting money then I would expect a sizable drop-out or dragging of feet whilst people made up their minds...however this is only pre-registering, no money required, and is only 2 weeks after the original announcement - hence I'm assuming right now that it's just a question of catching people's eye, which is why I've been banging on about how important it is to pre-register the last couple of days!
It's still very, very early so I'm not flapping yet
I will naturally take the opportunity again to post the link to
Pre-registering though
Mr Shiny - right now everyone's email is sitting in a folder, I've yet to pull it altogether into an actual mailing list yet...I'll try and do it sometime this weekend and get a test message out at the very least though - I can say that I do remember seeing your email registration