me too, Im wondering if the hotel will provide shuttle services

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Tim: call them.

First you ask the distance to the rink, when it's clearly posted on the hotel pdf form available on the site. Then you wonder if they have shuttle service. If you want to know, its not that hard to find these things out. Just look where the information is.

Sorry to rant, but the website is pretty damn user friendly ... past ANs didn't even HAVE dedicated sites ... and I'm getting the dumbest emails from people asking the most mundane questions because they are too lazy to look it up.

You go, girl!

Don't be sorry...I'd be irked too!

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If some of you haven't booked your hotels yet, try Priceline---I got a 4 star hotel for $60/night! I'm a little further from the rink, but it's a fairly direct route.

--I called the Marriott & the Country Inn & Suites--both are booked up. And the Quality Inn gave me a higher rate than advertised ($84.99).

Call the hotels directly, not their 1-800 national reservation lines (which will not have any more rooms at the group rate).

I'm about to cancel a room I have at the official hotel so at least one will open up soon - I booked at two places while deciding

I did.

Or better, go to the website listed in the Hotel info for the Country Inn hotel!!! The info is ALL there under "Services."

Yes, I agree!!! In fact, the website is user friendly enough that it made my decision to not go pretty easy. (Just couldn't afford it! The budget and timing of where I am in my training with Nationals was just not right...)

I *KNOW* you guys have planned on this event long before the last AN... so to you LOC peeps out there in Chi-town!!!

(NOW, if I only know where AN 2008 will be... but *sigh* I'll be patient and wait for the announcement. )

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I just booked the Marriott two days ago but they only had King rooms available.....maybe now those are gone too? I also had to try 3 different rental car dealers to get a car.....I do like the fact that the practice Ice is sooo close......It will make things much nicer than Dallas (sorry Dallas, my first Nationals was not a great experience outside of my Gold Medal Performance )

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I booked at the Quality Inn yesterday, with no problem. It is a little further away, though, but only about 10 minutes. If anyone wants a roomie...

SO--a question about practice ice:

The only other big comp I've done was Lake Placid (dance). There (& they told me at all qual. competitions), you had a practice for each of your events, every day before and including the day of your event. So you always skated the same day of your competition earlier in the day, and you had practice every day before--a separate practice for each of your events. Does AN work the same way?

And another question: I was surprised to see at LP that everyone practiced in full costume/makeup/hair.....of course these are diva dancers & they actually charge admission to watch......so what do people wear for AN practices?

At AN practices, people wear a wide variety of things; I wear the same thing I do for practice at home. Either leggings and a tank top with a fleece, or else a practice dress, depending on what I feel like that day.

In Kansas City 2005, a lot of people wore their competition outfits for the official (20-minute) warmup, but I stuck with my practice clothes for that too.

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I think according to the competition announcment and registration forms for AN 2007, you get one official 20-minute practice on the day of your event that is separate from the 6-minute warmup for the actual event. All other practice ice you have to sign up for, and I think that the preregistration form was due a while ago. You can also sign up for practice ice during the competition, but I think it's on a first come, first serve basis.

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There are also a million rinks around (well maybe I am exaggerating a little!) if ice is booked.

Yup, I do some of my training in the area, so it's fine if there isn't practice ice every day. My favorite rink is fairly close.

Any clue when the final schedule may be coming out? Just trying to plan... I live nearby-ish, so I will be making my travel arrangements based upon when I actually skate.

Also, someone asked I think about Bronze II, whether there will be a qualifying round, and if NOT, whether the event would take place on Wednesday or Friday. I'd be curious to know that too.

Thanks!

Final schedule is usually posted after the last qualifier (in this case Mids) so that anyone who qualifies and would like to withdraw from their open event (if they signed up) has the opportunity to do so.

For those who are staying at the Country Inn & Suites By Carlson, O'Hare South:

I just spoke with the receptionist from Country Inn & Suites By Carlson, O'Hare South, their shuttle only provide rides from and to the airport. She said they will provide local taxi information upon arrival.

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I wasn't sure where to ask this, but this is as good a thread as any. Anyhow, I hear that adult nationals allows spectators to throw things on the ice after the performance. Is this true? This will be my first AN and I have never been to a competition before where things are thrown on the ice. How does this work? When each skater finishes do they then have to pick it up if there is anything? Is there any oversight to make sure the ice is cleared?

Absolutely! That's one of the best things about ANs!

Once the skater is done with their program, you can throw things on the ice (but nothing like live flowers where there could be leftover debris) and the skater (or sometimes we even get sweepers!) picks up the items. Generally, the spectators keep an eye out for any missed items and will yell to let you know.

We are trying to get sweepers, at least for times when the kids aren't in school.

Both rinks have netting around about 80% of the rink, and they will not take it down. We asked. So if you want to throw stuff, just make sure you're sitting in the area where the netting isn't.

And by the way, I've had several emails the past few days about the actual times for the schedule. We won't get that from the referee for a few weeks yet, since a) Mids aren't over, and b) the referee is in Europe working on another event. So please stop asking me. Once I know the schedule it will be up on the ANs site almost immediately. The tentative schedule is correct as to actual days that your event will be happening, so please make travel plans around that.

21 more days

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FYI...I found the schedule on the United States Figure Skating site this afternoon. It is broken down into groups, so if you can kind of guess what group you think you are going to be in you can pretty much get an exact skating time.

I guess we are now just waiting for group assignments.

Any fellow Bronze Ladies II's here?