TU XXXVII General Information

C.A.T. will be hosting Tigers United TUXXXVII in June with the Santa Maria Inn as our host hotel. Santa Maria is an easy drive from both Los Angeles and the Bay Area.

The Autocross (Saturday) will be held at the Santa Maria Airport and the Concourse (Sunday) will be staged among the vines at the picturesque Cottonwood Canyon Winery, where wine tasting and cave tours will be available. The awards banquet (Sunday evening) will be held in the Inn’s Santa Maria Room.

We have blocked 50 rooms. Over half have now been reserved ((Note: Reservation information is dated. Follow this thread to see more recent availability.). Room prices at the Inn for the United begin at $129 per night (or $149 if you choose to prepay for the restaurant’s heavily discounted breakfast buffet for two). Various other room options (including suites with kitchens and capable of sleeping six) are also available. For the TU rate you should make your reservation directly through Brittany Wright at the Inn (805) 346-7930. Sales@SantaMariaInn.com

The Inn is pet friendly.
An exclusive Tiger only parking area will be set up on the roof of the hotel's parking structure where overnight security will be provided. There is no trailer parking available on site at the Santa Maria Inn so we have arranged for trailers to be parked in a special area at a sister hotel (the Radisson at the Santa Maria Airport).

The cost of event registration will be similar to recent C.A.T. TUs. We will again offer “a la carte” pricing for those who don’t want to be full participants. Early registration for full participants will be at a $20 discount while those opting for the spectator category will only be charged $10 per day (or $25 for the entire event). Banquet dinners are included for full participants but can be purchased by others separately for $35 per person. Full participants will also receive an event T-shirt along with all meals and cave tour / wine tasting at the Concours.

To make the event more family friendly, child's plates have been arranged for at the BBQ ($12) and Awards Banquet ($15). A child is 12 and younger. (At the BBQ the children's choices are beef or chicken while at the Awards Banquet chicken tenders or spaghetti are offered.)

schedule of events?

What events are on what days?

Thursday Tech & Welcome BBQ
Friday Rally & Quiz
Saturday Autocross & Guest Speaker
Sunday Concours & Awards Banquet

Welcome BBQ is Different This Year!

This year's Welcome BBQ is different!

It will not be held at the host hotel but at a restaurant about ten miles away.
It's a sit down dinner in an outdoor patio at the Hitching Post in Casmalia, which Forbes magazine called one of the ten best BBQs in the country.
The cost of the dinner is included in the registration fee for full participants.
Spectators can order a meal using the ala carte portion of the Registration Form ($35).

http://www.hitchingpost1.com/index.html

TU Rooms 2/3 booked

We have blocked 50 rooms for this June's Tigers United at the Santa Maria Inn.

Over 2/3 have now been reserved. ((Note: Reservation information is dated. Follow this thread to see more recent availability.).

Room prices at the Inn for the United will begin at $129 per night (or $149 if you choose to prepay for the restaurant’s heavily discounted breakfast buffet for two). Various other room options (including suites with kitchens and capable of sleeping six) are also available. For the TU rate you should make your reservation directly through Brittany Wright at the Inn (805) 346-7930. Sales@SantaMariaInn.com

BTW, reservations can be cancelled without charge until 6pm on the day before reserved arrival.

TU Rooms over 80% Reserved

((Note: Reservation information is dated. Follow this thread to see more recent availability.) More than 80% of the discounted rooms we've blocked for Tigers United have already been booked. It's time to reserve yours now. See postings above on how the reservation process works.

Once they are gone, the hotel can charge whatever rates they choose assuming rooms are still available.

bt

It appears that all of the $129 rooms are gone- they are getting $149 now...

$129 + $20 Breakfast

In the first entry in this thread, Buck mentioned that the hotel price is $129 OR $149 if pre-booking breakfast for two. Did they actually tell you that they had no more of the rooms blocked out for our TU or did your booking include the breakfast for two? It would be a very big coincidence if the standard rate matches the blocked rate with breakfast for two, but stranger things have happened.

I specifically mentioned the $129 rate for the Tigers while talking to Brittany, and she said there were none left. If you find out otherwise, please let me know...BTW- I called back later in the day to double check- nope!

Volunteers Needed

Pull CAT autocross trailer to event from San Bernardino.

Tech inspection for autocross.

Other job's as they arise.

TU ROOMS Running Out

Hi Doug,

You're correct that we ran out of the lowest priced rooms in the block we had arranged for Tigers United.

However we've discussed this with the Hotel and they have agreed to add some more of the lowest priced rooms to our block. They plan to move those who wanted the lowest priced rooms (but had to book the more expensive rooms) into the $129 rooms. (You might want to confirm this has been done with Brittany.)

By the way, 45 of the 50 rooms are now reserved!
((Note: Reservation information is dated. Follow this thread to see more recent availability.).
It's shaping up to have a great turnout!

bt

YES!

I got a new confirmation in my email this morning for the $129 rate, so, Brittany must have added more of the lower priced rooms for the club. Thanks, Buck.

Kirk

TU Rooms Out -Almost

Our block of 50 discounted rooms for Tigers United has now been fully reserved.

The Hotel has given us 5 more but these won't last long.

If you want a room, by all means reserve it ASAP!

bt

Just got two rooms today so I am safe.........

Rooms and Registration

The rate for Participant's goes up from $175 to $195 for registrations received after this month. Getting your registration in early helps spread the workload on the volunteers and helps them attend to arrangements that require lead time like having the T-Shirts silk screened or ordering meals. Early also saves you money.

The hotel has added some rooms to our block. We are at Sixty Rooms reserved. Response is great!

bt

Discounted Registration Ending

The Discount for Early Registration ends in a week.

To qualify, we have to receive the registration ($175) before May 1st.
It goes to $195 after that date.

There are some hotel rooms left so it's a good time to get movin'.

bt
at the beach

Early Registration Discount Ending

Mail your registration today if you want the early discount!
Only registrations received before May 1st qualify!

bt
at the beach

Confirmation

Cool art received today.

That should be the shirt.........

Volunteers for Autocross (slalom)

Warren: I probably will not run the slalom so could help out volunteering someway. Let me know in SM. Jim Massman