Originally Posted by
rickair7777
At large hotels at airline hubs with vans on a regular schedule, be down ten minutes early, especially early in the am. Those vans will not wait, and if they fill up with tourists plus three full SWA crews, you'll be left at the curb.
Either I'm staying at all the right or all the wrong hotels because I've never had this issue anywhere I've stayed at my shop. Except for one time when we stayed at a "backup" hotel due to an IROP. And said "backup" hotel shouldn't even be allowed to be used as a backup. That got a little dicey...
Either way, it's better to err in being too early to the lobby rather than too late. No one wants to be the guy that everyone in the van is waiting for. Makes the whole crew look bad.