<p>Well, hotel reservations opened up for my D’s college for 2008 and, being on the bleeding edge… Made 'em.</p>
<p>Now, she just better not flunk any classes 'twixt now and then.</p>
<p>When you say that hotel reservations opened up, are you talking about an on campus hotel? Or do hotels not accept reservations for more than one year in advance? </p>
<p>Hadn’t even started thinking about hotel reservations…thanks for the heads up!</p>
<p>HOW EXCITING!!. I bet y’all are pumped.</p>
<p>Wow. Time traveled fast. It didn’t seem that long ago that TheDad’s daughter was deciding where to go for undergrad.</p>
<p>The Dad…I’ve been looking into hotel rooms for a while for our D’s 2008 graduation (where does the time go?) and at every online site, I cannot seem to reserve more than 12 months in advance and so am waiting a month. I tried as recently as last night.</p>
<p>I made our reservations for 2007 graduation TWO years ago (at my favorite Williamstown B&B). Now here we are just a few weeks to go. Exciting and devastating simultaneously.</p>
<p>Believe me parents of class of 2008,009 etc., the stress and joy of application, acceptance, rejection, decision is in no way over. :)</p>
<p>Close in at my school is the day after graduation…one year advance. Special policy and procedure…special pricing and stay requirements. This goes for most close in places and it cannot be done online. Payment is upfront and penalty for cancellation.
Four nights @$399.plus fees…anybody over 18 sharing room is additional fee.</p>
<p>Hazmat–can you take out a PLUS loan for graduation?</p>
<p>Ellemenope asked:
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<p>Hilarious! (though ain’t it the truth??)</p>
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<p>I SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO agree with this!!! This sort of thing is never ending…whether it is a summer job, internship, graduate school admissions, job hunt, casting (for one of my kids), etc. In fact, just in the past 36 hours, for both my kids, this stuff is going on. Older D has spent two months applying for internships in her field and landed one yesterday…in Paris! She is so psyched. Second summer in a row in France. Also in past day submitted proposal for Senior Honors Thesis. And before you know it, she has to apply to graduate schools. Today she called them all up to clarify if she had met certain course requirements as she is registering for classes for fall and would only take certain things if the grad schools wanted it and happily, she was all set and free to take what she wants next year, yay! But that whole admissions thing will be ahead of us soon again. My other kid is in a field where one is ALWAYS applying for things…she must audition. Very hard odds. It is a way of life. Last night she had two auditions and has callbacks for both this weekend, one for a lead, one for a significant role. It is always something with kids and I don’t think it begins to end with college admissions. Luckily each got good news in the past day but the waiting and all is a bit of a sweat each time even if these things were not quite on the level of getting into college, the waiting to be “accepted”, “hired” or “cast” or “approved” continues on! (and as parents, we await the calls…I got woken up early these past two mornings by each child as she opened emails with good news and couldn’t wait to tell us)</p>
<p>I have to wait about a month, but we’ll be doing the same. I remember that no freshman parents could get reservations for Parent’s Weekend because we didn’t know a year in advance where our kids would be. </p>
<p>I need to watch this thread to see all my old friends from those “throwing rocks at the mailbox” days.</p>
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You are ohhh sooo right. It is amazing isn’t it? And that covers ONLY the room. You gotta get the family there and feed them too!!</p>
<p>Reservations in the tiny town where Son’s school is located do not open up for 3 weeks- for next May…it is on my tickle file in many colors.</p>
<p>That said, here is a ‘funny’ story. My H and I attended the same undergraduate Uni along with the guy who later was our best man. If it hadn’t been for me dragging him to revise the darn thesis, I am not sure that H would not have been in the same situation as his BestF. </p>
<p>Graduation day is approaching. Everyone is getting psyched, getting gowns, talking about where to have dinner, whom to have it with and how parents are going to get on with each other (for many of us this was the first time the ‘in laws’ would meet!).</p>
<p>So, H’s BestF is somewhat uncharacteristically quiet. We know his parents are coming for graduation. His older brother had not been a big academic success so his graduation was a huge family triumph. Many family events had been re-scheduled around it. </p>
<p>Parents begin to arrive (mine had a short drive so my situation was different). They mingle and do all the pre-day events. Then it is ‘the day’. I am sitting, for the last time in my dorm room overlooking the river when I spot the BestF. Walking over ‘the bridge’ with his parents. Mid-smoot they pause, they look out. They seem to be uncertain (I have binoculars for bridge watching and Citgo watching)…they turn around and return in the direction of the frat.</p>
<p>You get it…he was walking with his parents to graduation when he told them, sorry M and D…I didn’t get the thesis in in time. I will finish in September.</p>
<p>Anitaw…similar story here. One of my apartment mates found out she was two credits shy right before graduation.</p>
<p>Not an on campus hotel, the near campus, across the street from campus hotel. Three night minimum. Payment up front. For a guaranteed room…DONE!!!</p>
<p>Soozie, I just got an e-mail from our “regular” place today. I signed up for their “preferred customers” club some time back, no cost or obligation, just to get on their mailing list for special offers and such. A lot of places won’t let you book more than 11 months in advance…I had it written in for June 1 in my appointment book, glad to do it now, just because we’ll be out of the country June 1.</p>
<p>DStark, yeah, time flies. But new hurdles replace the old that have loomed and diminished in their time.</p>
<p>WOW…I did not know you have to plan this early. I guess I better do it by next April for 09.</p>
<p>Simba, at a lot of places, you can’t make reservations more than an year in advance…but given all the stories I’ve heard, I’d start checking with the hotels in April and make reservations absolutely no later than early June.</p>
<p>I personally wouldn’t book too quickly…</p>
<p>I didn’t end up going to my graduation ceremony for my BS or my MS (and I was my parents only kid to go to HS grad…). I’m sure happy my parent’s didn’t book anything a year in advance! ;)</p>
<p>The area my where my son goes to school has several colleges close by. You can’t get hotel rooms on a football weekend let alone grad weekend. I think I’ll take the chance and book ahead. It’s a small town until parents arrive!</p>
<p>We don’t visit often, so I think he’ll humor us with an appearance at graduation. :)</p>
<p>Gosh, where has the time gone because it seems like yesterday Thedad had the count down song to April 1 and our kids were deciding where to go. </p>
<p>Isn’t it scary that now we have to think about where we are going to sleep a year from now as we attend graduation ceremonies. You can’t even get a room at the Hanover Inn (on-campus) for graduation because it is reserved for trustees, honorary degree recipients, and the 50-year reunion class.</p>
<p>However, the school does offer parents and their guest to stay in the dorms for a nominal fee and according to my D she said more families are staying there each year because you are right on campus. They send this information to undergrads home addresses in feb/march and you have until the first week in april to reserve a room(s).</p>
<p>I feel that I can live dorm life for a weekend so I will probably do this just to nag my kid about packing up her stuff (as they are kicked off campus the day after graduation).</p>
<p>Ophi, the odds of my D not going through graduation are only slightly higher than absolute zero…no worries.</p>
<p>Sybbie, yep. I’m in Phase II, already watching and waiting for developments re Grad school and such. But it’s a lot different and I’m (appropriately) a lot less involved. E.g., D e-mailed me a pitch letter for an internship the other day and asked for suggestions; I found one juxtaposition of two words that was awkward but other than it was fine. She’ll ask me my opinions about things but now she’s her own project manager…what a relief. And when she runs possibilities by me, they’re extremely well thought out in terms of why X and Y but not Z. Great development in four years.</p>