Bloomfield WI ...BCA meet...who is going?

[Barney Eaton]

I am getting my stuff organized to make the drive.......looks like about 1100 miles.  The present plan is to arrive Tuesday, probably around 5 pm.

At this time I do not have a hotel room and hope I can find someone with a room at the host hotel that would like to share a room, as it is unlikely that a room will become available there.

Wednesday I want to go to the Wisconsin Automotive Museum in Hartford, (about 45 minutes north). Thursday evening is the Reatta Div Rendezvous.

Reatta people can always meet in the hospitality room plus there is usually a crowd around the Reatta division table.

 

So who is going to be there?

6/5 update..........Chuck Kerls transferred his room to me, Chuck will be unable to attend the meet. 

Edited June 5, 2017 by Barney Eaton (see edit history)

[dship]

Barney,  I'm attending, but I do not have extra hotel room space (sorry about that).  From MA, I estimate about 1100 miles also.  I plan on arriving around early evening Tuesday.  Sent my check in for the Reatta Div Rendezvous.

 

PS: make sure you're heading to Brookfield, WI, not Bloomfield which is 50 miles south!! 

Edited June 2, 2017 by DShip (see edit history)

[NCReatta]

I will be there sometime on Wednesday. A little over 900 miles for me. I am organizing a Reatta caravan from East Coast Reatta Parts to the nationals. Right now we're probably going to go up to Muskegon and take the ferry across to Milwaukee Wednesday morning. If anyone would like to join, let me know! 

[38Buick 80C]

3 hours ago, Barney Eaton said:

 

At this time I do not have a hotel room... as it is unlikely that a room will become available there.

 

Barney, From my experience from the 2012 meet the hotel lost roughly 5-10% of the peak rooms reserved in the last month before the meet. i.e. if we had 280 Friday night rooms reserved in May by actual show day it was down to 250 because folks made hotel reservations early and then circumstances dictated they couldn't come so they cancelled out. So rooms will open up. The trick is getting them at the BCA rate. Typically the contracts with the hotels say something to the effect of one month before the event any unused rooms in the block go back to the hotel to be sold at rack rate. So I would advise two courses of action 1. get on a waiting list with the host hotel (it doesn't cost anything and they want to stay as full as possible) 2. watch the forum as a lot of folks will note they are gonna cancel and you can definitely get the hotel to honor the BCA rate for a transfer.  

 

All that said certainly cheaper to share a room so hopefully that works out for you.

[gsguy]

Barney,

 

Belva and I will be arriving on Tuesday.  We are also taking the ferry from Muskegon to Milwaukee.  We will be driving the white convertible.  Looking forward to seeing you there.

 

Sid

[Barney Eaton]

Taking the ferry sounds a lot more exciting than Oklahoma, Missouri and Illinois......and about 5 hours just to get out of Texas

[lancemb]

I'll be there with the Reatta and my 57 Roadmaster 75!

[DAVES89]

I'm not staying at a hotel as I plan on driving in each day. I live about 100 miles away. 

[Barney Eaton]

I hope we see lots of locals.........don't need to be a BCA member or Reatta Div member to come and see the cars and meet many of the people that are on this forum daily.

I would like to meet 2 seater....don't know how far the drive is for him but hope he comes.

This meet is the best opportunity each year for all of us getting together and seeing old friends and making new ones.