Re: Women's Retreat in October

April 12, 2006

In a message dated 4/12/2006 12:49:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,

maggiedirks@... writes:

I was wondering if there is a definite date and place for the retrest in

Florida. I am trying to arrange my airline ticket early.

HI Maggie and others interested in the Women's Retreat weekend -

We are going to have to abandon doing our Retreat at a real Retreat

location. I hoped that idea would work as it would be a bit less $ than a

hotel and

provide a beautiful nature setting but these places just aren't that

accessible.

The Reteat in Tampa said it has handicapped rooms but it turns out they

aren't truely accessible. I found out the toilet doesn't have enough maneuver

room for someone in a w/c and so a guest has to go offsight to use a real

toilet! Gee!

I was then hot on a Retreat near Orlando but Lois emailed me to be extra

careful about Retreats and when I looked more closely, I saw the beds are bunk

beds and they are in small rooms. I guess we could use the lower bunks but

there really isn't much space for all our devices.

So................................ I am now looking at hotels in the Tampa

area and I'm still focused on the weekend on Oct. 13. But now I need to

re-check on our w/c situation.

The Best Western, which is just a couple of miles from the airport, has 2

accessible rooms. That's not many but I realize that some people who use a w/c

don't use it 100% of the time and are ok with a regular room.

So, for the w/c ladies: I need to know if you must have an accessible room

or if you are ok with a regular room. If we need more than 2 fully

accessible rooms, then we have to find another hotel

Rooms at this hotel are $75, which is pretty good and some of you want to

share so that's even better. We'd have to all share the cost of a function

room for our use plus our meals.

I'd like to get this set so people can make their plans and so we can plan

the Retreat Agenda.

Sorry this is taking a while as I research stuff but I'm trying to do this

so that it will work for us.

thanks

Kathi

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