*ISA Annual Convention Blog*

Before You Leave for Montreal

Here is a list of helpful tips to check off before you leave for Montreal:

• Travel: Ensure that your travel plans are in order including: passport, travel visa (if required), hotel guest room reservation (and confirmation number) and plane tickets (boarding passes)
• Weather: ISA panels/events are occurring in 3 different hotels (the Sheraton, Fairmont and Marriott), within a 4-5 minute walk of each other - we recommend you check the weather prior to departure
• ISA Registration: Review your Convention Registration to ensure that ISA has received your registration information and fee
• Coordinate with Panel: Be sure to coordinate with your panel chair about presentation length and ensure that the panel discussant(s) has received your paper (contact information for your panel(s) can be obtained from the detail tab to the left of your panels in the My Program area of MyISA)
• Upload Paper: To ISA Paper Archive no later than 1 week prior to your scheduled panel(s)
• Flashdrive: Be sure to bring your presentation (Windows compatible) on a flashdrive for your panel session (PDF or Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 ONLY, a Windows netbook is set up on-site in each panel room)
• Revisit Online Program: To check for any last minute panel/meeting changes to the program and take advantage of MyISA's option to search and build your own program schedules

The Annual Convention: What To Know Onsite

We recently posted a special list of items that we are calling "What To Know Onsite" to our Annual Convention website. This list includes helpful information on: travel & transport, currency exchange, convention registration and check-in, where events are located, hotel services (included coat check, luggage check, networking spaces and lounges), ISA awards and receptions, travel grant award info, tips for first-time attendees (including info on what to wear), and tips on what to see and where to dine in Montreal.  We hope you will find this list to be helpful and informative.

Marriott & Hilton Rooms Available

The Marriott and the Hilton let us know that they now have a limited number of rooms available at the group rate. Please see the Convention Hotels website for room rates and links to online reservations.

Loews Now Accepting Reservations

We have been notified that our second overflow hotel, the Hilton Montreal Bonaventure, is sold out. We will let you know if additional rooms become available at our group rate.

Our third overflow hotel, the Loews Hotel Vogue, is now accepting room reservations at the discounted room rate of $169 Single (Canadian $) and $199 Double (Canadian $). Online reservations may be made here.

Marriott Chateau Champlain Sold Out

We have been notified that our room block at Marriott Chateau Champlain is sold out. We will let you know if additional rooms become available at our group rate.

Our second overflow hotel, the Hilton Montreal Bonaventure, is now accepting room reservations at the discounted room rate of $169 Single (Canadian $) and $195 Double (Canadian $). Online reservations may be made here.