Hotels
Hotel reservations can be made by contacting the conference-site and off-site hotels directly. Please refer to the "Closing The Gap Conference" when making your reservations to receive conference room discounts when and where applicable. All noted hotels have a limited number of handicapped accessible rooms. If required, state your needs when making your reservations and reserve your room early to better insure a room that will best accommodate you.
Cancellation policy for all hotels: A deposit of one night's room rate plus tax is required to reserve a guest room for the Closing The Gap Conference. Guest rooms may be cancelled up to September 11, 2008, with no cancellation penalty and your total deposit refunded to you. Any guest room cancelled after September 11, 2008, will be subject to forfeiture of the entire deposit.
The conference site hotels:
Sheraton Hotel
7800 Normandale Blvd.
Bloomington, MN 55439
Phone: 952-835-7800
Fax: 952-893-8419
$149 - Single occupancy
$159 - Double occupancy
(Both are in South Tower)
FULL
Hotel Sofitel
5601 W. 78th Street
Bloomington, MN 55439
Phone: 952-835-1900
Fax: 952-835-0545
$175 - Single occupancy
$185 - Double, triple, or quad occupancy
Call for Reservations
Off-Site Hotels
Crowne Plaza Hotel
5401 Green Valley Dr.
Bloomington, MN 55437
Phone: 952-831-8000
Fax: 925-831-8426
$142 - Single or Double
(Enter Group Booking Code: CTG
in the Corporate, Group & IATA Identification
section)
Call for Reservations
For additional off-site hotel options, click here.
Travel
Closing The Gap has arranged for Northwest Airlines to handle air travel needs for the conference.
For the lowest possible air fares, in the United States and Canada, call Northwest Airlines at 800-328-1111 and ask about special Closing The Gap fares (I.D. code NYVNX). Northwest hours are Monday through Friday, 7:30am - 7:30pm Central Daylight Time.
Limo, taxi, and accessible transportation is available. Learn More
Shuttling from off-site hotels
The off-site hotels - Country Inn & Suites Bloomington West and Crowne Plaza Minneapolis Airport West will provide shuttling services during specified conference hours, to and from the conference site.
The shuttling procedures and schedules will be posted at all off-site hotels and near the Closing The Gap registration desks at the Sheraton Bloomington Hotel and Hotel Sofitel.
The shuttling schedule will be posted on the Closing The Gap Web site at a later date.
Off-site Shuttling Schedule:
Monday, October 13
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Tuesday, October 14
6:30 am - 9:30 am
3:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Wednesday, October 15
6:30 am - 9:30 am
3:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Thursday, October 16
6:30 am - 9:30 am
3:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Friday, October 17
7:00 am - 9:30 am
3:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Saturday, October 18
7:00 am - 3:00 pm
What participants have said
This is by far the best conference‚ year after year‚ just top notch!
~Speech Language Pathologist
Every session that I attended was fabulous! Knowledgeable presenters with excellent presentation skills! This is, by far, the best conference that I have ever attended.
~University Professor
This conference has ALL the AT resources for ALL.
~Special Education Facilitator
