Cabins
Shawn Stratton
I've started making a list of new cabins, I'm specifically looking at
cabins that will sleep 45 to 55 people with us capping the attendance
at 50 like in previous years. I'll be putting a spreadsheet up later
but I wanted to reach out and see if anybody wanted to help directly
with listing the cabins before we put them up for review. If you are
so interested and have time to make a few calls (online searches work
as well) I'll be more than happy to share a google document with you
so we can get a comprehensive list before making our decision.
Further, we need to refine what we really need in a cabin, one of the
things I'm noticing that's going to be a major problem is high speed
internet, do we really require high speed or can we get away with
making sure we're within usable range of a cell network and then give
the option for everyone to rent a cellular modem from their
providers? Lots to think and talk about, I look forward to seeing
everyone's thoughts.
-Shawn
Matthew Turland
This earlier message from Jeff Jones might interest you, the
spreadsheet link in particular:
http://groups.google.com/group/php-appalachia/msg/17e139a7b876817c
Regards,
Matt
Ben Ramsey
> I've started making a list of new cabins, I'm specifically looking at
> cabins that will sleep 45 to 55 people with us capping the attendance
> at 50 like in previous years. I'll be putting a spreadsheet up later
The first year, we maybe had 10-12 people in attendance. We didn't
really set a cap, as I recall (maybe we did). It was at a KOA
campground, and we didn't have a cabin. Everyone fended for themselves.
The second year, we had a cabin, but I don't think it accommodated quite
this many. I think it slept somewhere around 36-40 people (I'm probably
wrong), but that's fitting 2 per bed. So, think about that. While I know
Jeff found some cabins in his list (linked to in Elazar's post) that
sleep upwards of 60 people, you need to consider that the number is
counting for 2 per bed. So, a cabin that sleeps 60 people will really
only sleep 30, if you only have one person per bed.
Still, I think we had a great turn-out of near 30 people that second
year. Elizabeth probably has the most accurate number, and that number
includes people who did not stay in the "main" cabin, but who got their
own cabin or stayed in a hotel.
> but I wanted to reach out and see if anybody wanted to help directly
> with listing the cabins before we put them up for review. If you are
> so interested and have time to make a few calls (online searches work
> as well) I'll be more than happy to share a google document with you
> so we can get a comprehensive list before making our decision.
Again, Jeff already has a pretty comprehensive list, as Elazar
mentioned. :-)
> Further, we need to refine what we really need in a cabin, one of the
> things I'm noticing that's going to be a major problem is high speed
> internet, do we really require high speed or can we get away with
> making sure we're within usable range of a cell network and then give
> the option for everyone to rent a cellular modem from their
> providers? Lots to think and talk about, I look forward to seeing
> everyone's thoughts.
While high-speed Internet is nice to have, we never had anything of the
sort the last two times. The first year, we were at a KOA, and the wifi
was a trickle, only available from the meeting room. The second year, we
were promised high-speed Internet, but they had a daily bandwidth cap on
it, and we would hit it in about 30 minutes each day, rendering it
useless for the rest of the day.
So, we've done fairly well without Internet, so I'm wondering if it's
even as big a "need" as we make it out to be.
Good Internet access keeps people from having good conversation and
interaction. :-)
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Ben Ramsey
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