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Packed hotels cloud graduation day
Students should book hotel rooms early
By Dave Broltenstein
Kansan staff writer
Graduation time for KU students usually means a celebration with their family and friends.
But when graduation comes, hotels in Lawrence are packed, leaving students and their families wondering where to go.
advance for his graduation. He called other hotels in Lawrence, but most were full by that time.
Andrew Lee, Gushen, N.Y., graduate student, said that his family had reserved a room at the Holiday Inn, 200 McDonald Drive, a few months in
"I'm glad we called when we did because my family wouldn't have goten a room if they waited any longer," Lee said.
Some Lawrence hotels only are reserving rooms for two or three nights for graduation weekend, which is May 16 to 18, and about half of the hotels are booked to maximum capacity. All hotels in Lawrence are full for parents' weekend, which is October 18 to 20.
Lee said his family had to stay three nights as part of Holiday Inn's graduation weekend package.
fort Inn, which are not completed yet. The Hampton Inn has no vacancy for either weekend.
Lawrence has 990 total hotel rooms, including the Hampton Inn and Com-
Roberta Mead, general manager of Best Western Hallmark Inn, 730 Iowa St., said the staff had booked all of its rooms quite a while ago.
"We were already full for next year's graduation a few days after this year's graduation," she said.
"Our weekend rates are always higher than our weekday rates, but we don't raise prices for special weekends," she said.
Mead said that some other hotels raised their prices during special events, but the Hallmark Inn did not.
Stephanie Hacksma, general manager of Days Inn, 2309 Iowa St., said it had special event rates for parents'
and graduation weekends, and when KU plays a home football game.
"But special rates don't just apply to KU events," she said. "If there is anything special going on in Lawrence, our rates are higher."
Hacksma said Days Inn had not taken any reservations for graduation weekend because of construction and the uncertainty of when it would fully reopen.
"We have a unique situation here," she said. "We're under construction and only operating out of about 30 percent of the rooms that we normally have."
Where to stay
Talley Kimble, front desk clerk at the Super 8 Motel in Lenexa, said it was not fully booked yet for parents' and graduation weekends, but it expects to be.
Lawrence's hotels and motels already are filling up for Parents' Weekend, Oct. 18-20, and graduation weekend, May 16-18. Here is a list of accommodations that still have vacancies.
Parents' Weekend vacancies:
All hotels and motels are full except for College Motel, 1703 W. Sixth St., which does not accept advance reservations.
Graduation weekend vacancies:
Bismarck Inn, 1130 N. Third St.
College Motel, doesn't take advance reservations
Days Inn, 2309 Iowa, isn't taking reservations yet*
Eldridge Hotel, 701 Massachusetts St.
Hampton Inn, 2216 W. Sixth St.
Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive*
Ramada Inn, 2222 W. Sixth St.
Virginia Inn, 2907 W. Sixth St.
*Guests must stay more than one night.
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