Spring Break
Crowds fill hotels, gas scarce
By: Sadie Michalk
Issue date: 9/18/08 Section: News
Another concern for local hotels is the influx of Aggie fans for this weekend's football game and how this will affect evacuees.
"My regular business won't be affected," Fulton said. "Since most of the evacuees are planning to return to Houston soon, game weekend shouldn't be a problem."
In fact, Fulton said that he had received a few calls from some generous Aggie fans.
"Some people who made reservations for this weekend have called to cancel and offered their rooms for evacuees," Fulton said.
Michelle Soucie, manager of the Memorial Student Center Hotel, said she has had the same experience with hurricane evacuees.
"Out of 26 rooms, 20 are occupied by evacuees right now," Soucie said.
She said most evacuees in the MSC Hotel are from Houston and are waiting for power to return to their homes. She is not expecting game weekend reservations to affect the evacuees.
"They [evacuees] expect to have power back on soon and none of them have extended their stay through the weekend," Soucie said. "People who made reservations for this weekend will definitely have a room."
Assistant manager of the Hyatt Place, Aaron Boles, said evacuees are occupying half of the hotel's 91 rooms.
"They are beginning to trickle back home since they are slowly getting power back on," Boles said. "No evacuees have said they want to stay past Friday."
He said there would be no conflict with game weekend reservations made at the Hyatt Place.
At the Hilton Hotel, front office manager Naomi Garcia said hurricane evacuees have occupied 90 percent of the 303 available rooms. However, she said these evacuees would be affected by game weekend reservations.
"The evacuees were notified that they would have to find somewhere else to go because of reservations made for this weekend," Garcia said.
She said evacuees staying at the Hilton made arrangements for the weekend and some would return on Sunday.
"My regular business won't be affected," Fulton said. "Since most of the evacuees are planning to return to Houston soon, game weekend shouldn't be a problem."
In fact, Fulton said that he had received a few calls from some generous Aggie fans.
"Some people who made reservations for this weekend have called to cancel and offered their rooms for evacuees," Fulton said.
Michelle Soucie, manager of the Memorial Student Center Hotel, said she has had the same experience with hurricane evacuees.
"Out of 26 rooms, 20 are occupied by evacuees right now," Soucie said.
She said most evacuees in the MSC Hotel are from Houston and are waiting for power to return to their homes. She is not expecting game weekend reservations to affect the evacuees.
"They [evacuees] expect to have power back on soon and none of them have extended their stay through the weekend," Soucie said. "People who made reservations for this weekend will definitely have a room."
Assistant manager of the Hyatt Place, Aaron Boles, said evacuees are occupying half of the hotel's 91 rooms.
"They are beginning to trickle back home since they are slowly getting power back on," Boles said. "No evacuees have said they want to stay past Friday."
He said there would be no conflict with game weekend reservations made at the Hyatt Place.
At the Hilton Hotel, front office manager Naomi Garcia said hurricane evacuees have occupied 90 percent of the 303 available rooms. However, she said these evacuees would be affected by game weekend reservations.
"The evacuees were notified that they would have to find somewhere else to go because of reservations made for this weekend," Garcia said.
She said evacuees staying at the Hilton made arrangements for the weekend and some would return on Sunday.
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