Portland Pathways 2005
Doubletree Hotel Lloyd Center & Oregon Convention Center
Portland, Oregon
March 6-10, 2005

Accommodations & Transportation

Accommodations
The Doubletree Hotel Lloyd Center is full! If you have not made hotel reservations yet and are looking for a place to stay we have reserved another block of rooms at the Courtyard by Marriott Portland Lloyd Center and highly recommend this hotel if you’d like to be close to convention activities. To make your reservations contact the hotel directly and make sure to mention the APPL group code “APPAPPA.”

Courtyard by Marriott Portland Lloyd Center
435 NE Wasco Street
Portland, OR 97232
Phone: 503-234-3200
Website: http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/pdxcl

Registered participants who have reservations by February 1, 2005 to stay for the duration of the convention at the Courtyard by Marriott Portland Lloyd Center may purchase the Auction & Dinner Event ticket for $25.00 (half the cost of a full price ticket).
If you registered for a FREE Auction & Dinner Event ticket and DO NOT have hotel reservations at the Doubletree Hotel you will be billed for the full price $50.00 ticket. Send hotel information updates along with Auction & Dinner Event ticket changes to Amy Matthews at amatthews@appl.org by February 1, 2005.

Convention activities will be held at both the Doubletree Hotel Lloyd Center and the Oregon Convention Center. The hotel is located within walking distance from the convention center and on the MAX light rail red line (the ride to the center is free).

Additional Convention Pages:

• Portland Pathways 2005 - Index

• General Convention Information

• Participant Information & Registration

• Exhibitor Information & Registration

• Trade Show Exhibitors & Specials

• Sponsorship Opportunities

• Auction  

• Related Links

Have you ever wondered why APPL encourages you to stay in our "host hotels" for the convention and trade show? Here are some reasons why APPL really needs you to book within the room blocks:

• We work hard to find good hotels, in good locations at decent prices for our members. It is easier for us to negotiate better room rates for you when APPL can prove that we will fill a larger number of rooms.
• The price APPL pays for meeting space is based upon the number of sleeping rooms we say we can fill. Although there were more than 700 people in Albuquerque for our convention, we could only account for 350 sleeping rooms. Since this is lower than the required 500 rooms to earn free meeting space, APPL had to pay a substantial (and unnecessary) bill of $10,000.
• When APPL falls short of our room block we pay for unused sleeping rooms (attrition cost). Luckily in Albuquerque, the Doubletree Hotel did not enforce attrition penalties. We avoided attrition penalties at the Hyatt by only 2%.
• The cities where we book our subsequent conventions look at our past history to judge what to offer us. Our bargaining power is severely diminished when we cannot account for APPL's total impact in our host city.
• Our Trade Show, one of the best in the industry, is large for our number of attendees. We cannot reserve adequate Trade Show space if we do not have the room nights to balance the request.

Transportation

Travel to Portland is easy by car, air or rail. The Portland International Airport is served by many major airlines and is only a 35 minute ride on Portland’s MAX light rail system to the Doubletree Hotel Lloyd Center. You can buy your ticket for less than $2 and board at the end of the baggage claim area! More airport information can be found at www.portlandairportpdx.com. Amtrak also serves Portland via their Northwest network (www.amtrak.com or 1-800-USA-RAIL).

For additional information about our Convention - Contact Sue Husch
928.638.2200 (Mountain Time) or shusch@appl.org