“Hotel stays not to be a problem” |
| Hotel stays not to be a problem Posted: 01 Jan 2011 03:25 PM PST By Levin. T. Black/Williston Herald Thousands of fans are expected to descend upon Williston for the Babe Ruth League World Series in 2013. With lodging already an issue in town concerns were raised as to how there would be room for all the fans. The oil boom created a housing problem. With no where else to go, many of the oil workers have piled into the hotels creating a shortage of rooms for any visitor in town. Amy Krueger, executive director for Williston Convention and Visitor's Bureau, said she is not worried about finding rooms for everyone. "We will work with the hotels very closely," she said. "We are currently at 699 rooms [in town]. We will be close to one thousand rooms in 2013 ... we should have no problem with that at all." Two hotels are currently being built. They are HomStay Suites and Micro Motel. Tournament director, Larry Grondahl, said they expect at least two more hotels to be built by 2013 but isn't allowed to say who just yet. Williston is only required to supply lodging for the coaches, Babe Ruth representatives and the umpires. However, tournament chairman, Larry Grondahl, said they are making preparations for the fans as well. He said they will monitor the housing situation in Williston and are optimistic things will have improved drastically by the time they must make a decision. "This boom hitting us so fast and so furious that our housing is just trying to get caught up," he said. "I think that will probably happen between now and then. If it doesn't we will just have to get together with the hotels and block rooms out." Grondahl explained that if the hotels in town still have low vacancies when the tournament is a year away the tournament committee will negotiate with the hotels to get large amounts of rooms blocked off for the time the World Series will be going on. Those rooms will then be made available for fans traveling to Williston for the tournament. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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