[rdorman]

If you are going to stay with the group, I would hold off on reservations unless they can be cancelled with out penalty. Largely because of the Cross Country issues I think there may be some looking at alternate group of hotels. So who knows where they will be. They could be across the street or across town! Columbus just does not generally have a single hotel with 500 rooms! Well actually there may be one but we don't want to stay there.
Rick