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Flanders Conference Hotel
Angela: Hello, Flanders. Conference Hotel.
Barrett and Stan Employee: Oh, hi. I wanted to ask about conference facilities at the hotel. Have I come through to the right person
Angela: you have under customer services? Manager? My name’s Angela. So how can I help you?
Barrett and Stan Employee: Well, I’m calling from Barrett and Stans. Sins were a medical company based in purse.
Angela: Oh, yes.
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Barrett and Stan Employee: And we’re organising a conference for our clients to be held in Sydney. It’ll be held over two days and we’re expecting about 50 or 60 people.
Angela: When were you thinking of having it?
Barrett and Stan Employee: Sometime early next year. Like the end of January. It would have to be a weekend.
Angela: Ah, let me see. Our conference facilities are already booked for the weekend beginning January. The 28 We could do the first weekend in February.
Barrett and Stan Employee: Help about January 21st.
Angela: h. Oh, I’m afraid that spoke to
Barrett and Stan Employee: Well, let’s go for the February date then.
Angela: So that’s the weekend beginning the fourth.
Barrett and Stan Employee: Ok, Now, can you tell me a bit about what conference facilities you have?
Angela: Tool? So for talks and presentations. We have the Q1 Tesla room.
Barrett and Stan Employee: Sorry,
Angela: Tesla’s. That’s spelled T E S L A. It holds up to 100 people and it’s fully equipped with a projector and so on.
Barrett and Stan Employee: How about a Q2 microphone?
Angela: Yes, that will be all set up ready for you. And there’ll be one that members of the audience can use. Two for questions if necessary.
Barrett and Stan Employee: Fine. And we’ll also need some sort of open area where people can sit and have a cup of coffee. And we’d like to have an Q3 exhibition of our products and services there as well. So that will need to be quite a big space.
Angela: That’s fine. There’s a central atrium with all those facilities, and you can come before the conference starts. If you want to set everything up,
Barrett and Stan Employee: great on PRESUME this Q4 wifi.
Angela: Oh yes, that’s free and available throughout the hotel. Okay, Would you also like us to provide a buffet lunch? We can do a two-course meal with a number of different options.
Barrett and Stan Employee: What sort of price? So we’re looking at for that?
Angela: Well, I can send you a copy of this standard menu that’s $Q5 45 per person, or you can have this special for $25 more.
Barrett and Stan Employee: I think the standard should be OK, but yes, send me the menu Now we’re also going to need accommodation on the Saturday night for some of the participants. I’m not sure how many, but probably about 25. So what do you charge for a room?
Angela: Well, for conference attendees, we have a 25% reduction, so we can offer you rooms at $Q6 135 normally a standard room, $180.
Barrett and Stan Employee: And does that include breakfast?
Angela: Sure. And of course, guests can also make use of all the other facilities at the hotel. So we gotta start where you can get messed Sarge’s and facials and so on. And there’s a Q7 pool up on the roof for the use of guests
Barrett and Stan Employee: craze. Now, what about transport links? The hotels downtown, isn’t it?
Angela: Yes is about 12 kilometres from the Q8 airport, but there’s a complimentary shuttle bus for guests, and it’s only about 10 minutes walk from this central railway station.
Barrett and Stan Employee: Now I don’t know Sydney very well. Can you just give me an idea of the location of the hotel?
Angela: Ah, well, it’s downtown on will be street. That’s quite a small street and it’s not very far from the Q9 sea. And of course, if the conference attendees want to go out on this Saturday evening, there’s a huge choice of places to eat. Then if they want to make a night of it, they can go on to one of the Q10 clubs in the area. There are a great many to choose from
Barrett and Stan Employee : Parquet. And so if we go ahead with this, can you give me some information about how much we’re looking at?