Conference Travel and Lodging Caution

SACNAS’ privacy policy ensures that SACNAS does not sell or distribute our members’, participants’, or affiliates’ contact information to others. SACNAS employs office practices and website precautions to protect the privacy of our community. SACNAS and our legal council have taken necessary steps to address the concern outlined below.

SACNAS has learned that a travel company has contacted SACNAS affiliates and exhibitors in the past, posing as “SACNAS’ housing bureau” for the national conference. Please note, SACNAS does NOT have a housing bureau for the conference.

SACNAS encourages participants to book travel and hotel reservations with our officially contracted partners, which are listed on the Travel and Lodging homepage. If you have been contacted by an outside company regarding making a hotel reservations, suggesting that the SACNAS hotels are nearly or completely sold out, and/or suggesting that you make reservations in other nearby hotels with which SACNAS does not have a contract, we ask that you please send an email with dates and details to the SACNAS conference manager.

All hotel reservations for the 2010 SACNAS National Conference—except for individuals for whom SACNAS will be making travel and lodging arrangements (including travel scholarship recipients and sponsored speakers)—should be made directly with the SACNAS call-in hotel where we have reserved a large block of rooms: the Anaheim Marriot. Reservation numbers and additional information for the hotel can be found on the SACNAS Travel and Lodging homepage.

There are plenty of rooms available in SACNAS’ room block. In order to reserve a room at the discounted SACNAS rate, you must mention SACNAS when you make the reservation. Hotel reservations made at another hotel and/or through an outside travel agent or housing bureau that does not contract with SACNAS is mentioned during the reservation process, will not be at the SACNAS discounted rate and will not count toward SACNAS’ room block at the hotel. As a result, if our entire room block is not reserved, SACNAS will face a significant financial penalty with the hotel.

Participants in the 2010 SACNAS National Conference requiring assistance with air or ground travel, please feel free to contact SACNAS’ official travel agency, Cain Travel. Mention SACNAS to take advantage of our discounted group fares and help SACNAS earn tickets for student travel scholarship recipients.