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Location and Lodging
Where: The trade show and all of the education sessions will be held at the
DeVos Place Convention Center
(303 Monroe Avenue NW) in downtown Grand Rapids, MI. Telephone: 616-742-8001
(during convention hours).
Some of the special events will be held in the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel.
Grand Rapids
offers many interesting attractions, as well as many dining and shopping opportunities.
Click for Directions and Parking
Lodging:
We recommend the elegant
Amway Grand Plaza Hotel
for your lodging needs. The hotel address is 187 Monroe Avenue NW,
but the auto lobby entrance is on Pearl Street as is the Amway’s self-parking ramp.
The hotel is two blocks from the DeVos Place Convention Center (there is an enclosed
walkway from the hotel to the convention center). Make reservations directly with the
hotel and ask for the Great Lakes EXPO’s 2010 convention room rate: $106 for single or double,
$116 for three persons and $126 for four persons. These are excellent rates
for this elegant hotel and include free self-parking in the hotel’s ramp
(as long as your room is reserved at the conference rate).
Most of the hotel’s rooms are blocked for the conference, but
reservations should be made early
since rooms fill quickly.
Call the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel at 800-253-3590 to make reservations.
Amway Grand Plaza Hotel Cancellation Policy: Since the hotel fills early,
there have been problems in previous years with some people overbooking rooms and
then canceling these reservations just before the conference. This has made it difficult
to maximize the rooms available for conference attendees. To help avoid this problem,
the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel will charge one night’s lodging for each room cancelled
after November 10, 2010.
Other hotels offering convention room rates:
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JW Marriott Grand Rapids (across Pearl St. from the Amway Grand Rapids Plaza Hotel);
235 Louis Street NW, Grand Rapids 49503, 616-242-1500, room rate is $116.
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Courtyard by Marriott Downtown (connects to the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel
through an enclosed walkway); 11 Monroe Avenue NW, Grand Rapids 49503, 616-242-6000,
room rate is $106 (make reservation by November 8).
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Days Hotel Downtown (about two blocks west of the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel);
310 Pearl Street NW, Grand Rapids 49504, 616-235-7611, room rate is $89 (2009)
(make reservation by November 9).
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Radisson Riverfront Hotel (3 miles north of the downtown area);
270 Ann Street NW, Grand Rapids 49504, 616-363-9001, room rate is $87 single or double (2009)
(make reservation by November 17).
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Comfort Suites Comstock Park (7 miles north of the downtown area);
350 Dodge St, Comstock Park 49321, 616-785-7899, room rate is $79.99 single or double (2009)
(make reservation by November 23).
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Clarion Inn & Suites Airport (10 miles south-east of the downtown area);
4981 28th Street SE , Grand Rapids 49512, 616-956-9304, room rate is $64.00 for any
Executive level room or $79.00 for any two room Suite. (2009)
For a complete list of area hotels, call the Grand Rapids Convention Bureau
at 800-678-9859 or go to its web site at
www.visitgrandrapids.org.
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