Hello fellow JoCoNauts and Team Dello members!

As you know, I organize the Team Dello hotel blocks for JoCo Cruise as a volunteer effort so our community can stay together at affordable group rates before and after the cruise.

One of the hotels (TDW3 - Hilton Garden Inn) required that we reserve at least 80% of our contracted room nights. This is a hotel contract clause called attrition, which protects the hotel if a group block doesn’t fill.

Unfortunately because of a few last-minute cancellations, we ended up 7 room nights short of that 80% requirement, which means the attrition clause is now being applied.

The current costs are:

• $1,616 in attrition fees for the unused room nights

• $300 cleaning fee for the private function space we reserved at TDW1 so our group has a dedicated place to gather that isn’t the lobby

Total: $1,916

(If you happened to reserve a room at TDW3 outside of the group rate, please reach out to me, there is a chance we may be able to apply your reservation toward our block and reduce the attrition amount.)

I am not a professional meeting planner; I organize these hotel blocks as a volunteer gift to the community, and I unfortunately can’t absorb these costs personally.

If you’d like to help offset the remaining expenses, I would be deeply grateful. Every contribution helps close the gap.

If more funds are raised than needed, any remaining funds will be used in service to Team Dello West, such as helping offset the cost of getting me to San Diego to coordinate things on-site or supporting direct mutual aid within our community. I will always communicate transparently about how funds are used.

Thank you for helping keep Team Dello strong. I’m incredibly grateful for this community.

-AJ