Post #309001 by CheekyGirl on Fri, May 25, 2007 6:03 PM

ROOM CRAWL

Truth be told, I’m little apprehensive about the Crawl being open to the masses. The crawl has traditionally been a TC event so that fellow TC could mingle and meet other Tcer that hadn’t met before. I’m with keeping a bit more covert and on the QT as I don’t relish the thought of a huge contingent of strangers looking for a freebie. Even at a small motel like the Tropics, someone lifted a mug from my room. I’m all for meeting new people not, not just 40 at a time.....

So now that I’ve had a little time to digest some of the suggestions on this thread...I’m not too keen about any kind of billboard being made open to the general public. I do agree that this is going to take a little elbow grease, organization and communication.

I do like the suggestion of a Shell being at a couple of KEY PLACES and KEY TIMES to distribute the Cards.

DRINK CARDS

As far as the crawl cards, I have found them to be help, because they served as guide as to who was hosting. Hosts also received a special badge that identifing them as hosts. If memory serves, you could also write down on your Host Badge when you were serving.

The general ideal of the crawl card was a “NO CARD -- NO DRINK" policy. I believe this was a way to weed out the “frat boys” and “bachelor party dudes”, or those that viewed the crawl as an unlimited free fill-up.

Cammo, at prior crawls, we would print up the cards ourselves on a piece of cardstock and Shell would also provide cards for those who didn’t have printers. At the Tropics it was much easier, as it was a small motel, the motel issued room # prior to the event, and Host would post on the thread prior to the event when they were hosting. So we basically were armed before hand with 75% of the information up front. I for one, hit all but 2 of the crawl hosts!

As I mentioned earlier, last year was the testing ground at the Hanalai, the crawl didn't run as smoothly as it has at the Tropics, but now we know what we are up against, so this thread is a good way to discuss, suggest, and work out the kinks. I for one, say keep the suggestions flowing...

On that note:

BEST DRESSED ROOM

I don’t think the “Best Dressed” room should be included in the crawl. Not all Crawl Hosts may be decorating their rooms and people decorating their rooms may not be involved in the Crawl. So just my 2 cents, if someone is participating in the Best Dressed room, that could be a separate thread, separate event.

I suggest a “walking tour” of people participating in the Best Dressed Room, with a couple of specific blocks of times when people could view rooms. Just an idea.....

Mahalo!