So the issue was I scheduled 2 days prior to when the orders start. 2 days out of my pocket and then 3 days for the training I’m attending which needs to be st or under per diem rate and tax exempt. I was also inquiring about purchasing dining plan (out of my pocket.). Email response has a ten day return time. The last time I called I started at the hotel, was told they can’t do it that I have to call reservations. I explained that reservations already told me they didn’t know and to try hotel. She insisted and transferred me. Reservations told me they didn’t know and said let’s csll the hotel. The same person from before answered. She then transferred me to someone else at the hotel who said call reservations. I went through the history and then she sent me to someone in operations to which we started all over. She transferred me to guest relations but without any kind of hand off. All of a sudden there was silence on the phone. After a couple seconds I started saying hello and someone was there. She told me to cancel out the reservation and I had to book two separate reservations to vover the tax exempt status and no dining plans for that time as they can’t do tax exempt on a package.
I now have two separate reservations at same hotel. Deluxe dining for first two nights and nothing afterwards. We going to get our table services/character meals out of the way first three days. Problem that I didn’t think of is that a new reservation was created after parking feee go in effect and I will have a rental to get to the training. I emailed guest relations to see if it could be waived as trip was originally booked prior to the date.
And for commenters that we’re interested, I’m staying a value for $106/night, $15 less than the allowable per diem rate.