HOTEL UPDATE FOR HARTFORD CONFERENCE

“If your genealogical knowledge and experience are not becoming to you;
you should be coming to Hartford!”

All in all, it is always best to stay at the Conference Hotel – Hartford Marriott Downtown – and partake in all of our festivities offered at the Hotel and the Convention Center. In that vein, please be aware: there still may be some confusion on the part of Marriott Reservations when you are trying to book several nights at the NERGC Group Code Rate (using NGCNGCA).

Wednesday night, the hotel is completely filled (between NERGC and another departing group). Although we had negotiated additions to the NERGC room block for Thursday and Friday nights, latest figures from the hotel indicate there are less than 25 rooms remaining in our latest expanded block for those nights, at $155 per night (rooms outside the NERGC block are available, but significantly higher). If you have not yet booked your room, don’t delay! Make your reservations either on-line or by telephone today!

Cut through the confusion:

HARTFORD MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN
200 Columbus Blvd.
Hartford, CT 06103-2807
Phone 1-860-249-8181
For RESERVATIONS: Toll free 1-866-373-9806
Group Code NGCNGCA = New England Regional Genealogical Conference

Please be patient, and persevere with the reservations assistant -- they are not situated in Hartford at the hotel. You may have to state the exact nights you wish to stay, then ask them to study one night at a time for availability. Then apply your conference code. You may find you’re actually paying different rates for different nights, according to our block of guaranteed rates – but you won’t have to move to another room!

Be mindful also: we would like to suggest that if you don’t get what you want for rooms, ask Reservations to be put on the waiting list for conference rates. People who are now on the list may cancel because of a personal change in schedule. We want all of our contracted rooms to be reserved for us. It helps your Conference, since $10 of each room rental comes back to NERGC to cover Convention Center costs.

Other hotels in Hartford and environs:

The Hospitality Committee has garnered the following additional listings from the AAA Tour Book. You may wish to use this data for your Wednesday night stay, until you can move into the Marriott Downtown.

Please use this information at your own discretion, after searching their individual web sites as to current prices and amenities, along with location, location, location.

You will discover on your own that there are more hotels/motels in the area than may be mentioned herein, but our selected locations are places where your Hospitality chair might suggest to personal friends.

Some may wish to book their entire conference stay off-site. But, consider also, that to be a little way out of downtown Hartford, while perhaps saving a few dollars on a room, may pose more of a drive-time than you wish to conquer at the morning rush hour in order to arrive in a timely fashion for our first lectures of the day. Add to this, the potential parking time, when your vehicle could already be snuggled in the Convention Center Garage!

To the North of Hartford (in the Bradley Airport area).

Note: many of these chains have multiple hotels in a given area, and you should take note of the exact name of the hotel when referencing its location on a map. On State Route 75, near Rte 20, about 1.5 mi east of the airport, you will find clustered the following (arranged alphabetically, not by style, or price range):

Baymont Inn & Suites Hartford-Airport, 64 Ella Grasso Tpke., Windsor Locks, CT 06096 800-531-5900

Days Inn Bradley International, 185 Ella Grasso Tpke., Windsor Locks, CT 06096, 860-623-9417 or 800-894-1475 Fax 860-623-5268

Doubletree Hotel Bradley International, 16 Ella Grasso Tpke., Windsor Locks, CT, 06096-0020, Tel: 860-627-5171 Fax: 860-627-7029

Fairfield Inn Hartford Airport 2 Loten Drive, Windsor Locks, CT 06096, Phone: 1-860-627-9333 Fax: 1-860-623-1978 Sales: 1-860-623.1978 Sales fax: 1-860-623-1978

Hampton Inn Hartford/Airport, 2168 Poquonock Ave., Windsor, CT 06095 Tel: 860-683-1118 Fax: 860-683-2200
Ramada Inn Bradley International Airport, 5 Ella Grasso Tpke., Windsor Locks, CT 06096 Tel: 860-623-9494, Fax: 860-627 7462

Also, the Sheraton Hotel at Bradley International (which is actually inside the airport), 1 Bradley Int'l Airport, Windsor Locks, CT 06096, Tel: 877-422-5311, Fax: 860-623-5284, Reservations: 800-325-3535

In downtown Hartford itself, you may wish to consider:

The Hilton Hartford Hotel, at the Hartford Civic Center (not to be confused with our Hartford Convention Center) is across town a bit, but the city’s free shuttle buses make a stop nearby), 315 Trumbull St., Hartford, CT, 06103 Tel: 860-728-5151 Fax: 860-240-7247

Also in the area, but not downtown: Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Hartford – located in the South Meadows, a 5 minute drive to the Conference, at 185 Brainard Rd., Hartford, CT 860-525-1000, FAX 860-525-2990, toll free reservations line 877 HOTEL CT.

Please refer also to NERGC E-Zine #11 for other hotels within Hartford, and to the South of the city.

Janet Wallace, NERGC Hospitality Chair