Hotels

[InsidePitch]

Same as above, I have to say that I hate the fact that some tournaments have booking companies that kill you with their rates. We're paying almost $200 a night for the Colorado IDT. That's on top of airfare at $400 pp. Almost $2.5K just in hotel and airfare and then you have to eat.

I guess we got lucky paying 158 for Boulder but the hotel, rental car and flights are what make this cost so much. I figure a trip to CO and CA will cost me about 4-4.5k.

 

[KPower]

I guess we got lucky paying 158 for Boulder but the hotel, rental car and flights are what make this cost so much. I figure a trip to CO and CA will cost me about 4-4.5k.

You might want to consider taking a shuttle to the hotel and renting a car from a location other than the airport...we live here, but our friends who are coming for the Sparkler were able to save $300 off their rental by picking up their car in Boulder instead of at the airport.

 

[MNDad]

- For 14U down, you want a pool., Older teams for whatever reason seem to stop going to the pool, but younger teams are always out there.

Great list! Re: Pools and older girls many teams don't allow players to use the pool. The thinking being to conserve energy for the games. Most of the time I doubt it would make a difference, but if you wind up playing 4-5 games in a day it makes sense.

 

[ScottyDont]

You might want to consider taking a shuttle to the hotel and renting a car from a location other than the airport...we live here, but our friends who are coming for the Sparkler were able to save $300 off their rental by picking up their car in Boulder instead of at the airport.

No kidding...our rental car cost about $350 for the week (reasonable) but they tacked on an additional $150 in taxes and fees. Colorado is nuts.

 

[InsidePitch]

I used my brothers truck last year so I had no idea how much the rentals where. I'd use it again but I put about 1200 miles on it and felt bad about that. I think I ran up over 100 dollars in tolls running back and forth.

 

[KPower]

E470 and Northwest Parkway tolls are ridiculous! There are alot of better (cheaper) ways to get around that don't take much more time.

I think rental car fees at DIA are absurd too - but at offsite rental locations you can get quite the deal! We rented a car to go out of state a couple months ago and I swear it was cheaper than the gas I would have put in my old Suburban.

 

[InsidePitch]

You can sign up for expresstoll before you get there and add your rental car. Might be cheaper than paying the "CONVENIENCE FEE" tacked on by the rental company.