Each hotel CCHQ deals with charges for meeting rooms, the hospitality suite, and charges for setting up, tearing down, preparing for special events, etc.  These are considered facilities charges.  When CCHQ feels they have negotiated the best possible bottom line facilities price, we then ask the hotel for certain concessions.  In most cases the hotels [...]

Discounted Round Trip Airport Transportation Price $35 per person is being offered by Airport Shuttle.
Retail $38 per person round trip  |   One Way $20 per person  |   (provided by Airport Shuttle)
In order to book your discounted airport/hotel shuttle reservations online, you must book no later than 24 hours prior to your flight arrival time.
Changes to an [...]

This is to advise all hands that the room block at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, in New Orleans is fast being exhausted.  They have added more rooms for us at the $98 rate but they will not last forever.  Get your reservations in this [...]

Tribal Elders Annual Grand Epicurean Orgy
“A Taste of New Orleans”  awaits CCs at this year’s non-conference dinner getaway. A sample of favorite Creole dishes will be available for all who enjoy new dining experiences.  For more timid palates, an alternative fried shrimp platter will be offered.
“Tribal Elders” will meet outside the Westin’s Iberville St. entrance [...]

Rob Taglianetti seeking stories from "old timer CCs."
Okay, Conference-goers. You’ve asked before about doing oral histories so we are going to accommodate you in New Orleans. Rob Taglianetti will be making a presentation on Tuesday but will remain at the conference through Friday morning.  He especially wants to talk to some of you “grey beards” [...]

The Westin, New Orleans, Canal Place sold out. Overflow rooms are available for $98 at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, 500 Canal Street. New Orleans, LA Phone: (504) 525-2500 for the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association September 12 – 17, [...]

Rooms Going Fast:  If you have not already made your room reservation at the Westin Hotel in New Orleans for the USMCCCA Annual Conference, don’t wait.  Rooms at the $98 rate are going fast.  Unless you want to pay a higher rate or be forced to stay at another hotel at that hotel’s rate, make [...]

U.S. Marine Corps MajGen. Steven A. Hummer
Lt. Gen. (s) Steven Hummer has been designated by the Commandant to be the Guest of Honor at the USMCCCA Annual Merit Awards Banquet on Thursday, September 15 at the Westin Hotel in New Orleans.
General Hummer is in the process of taking over the New Orleans-based Marine Forces Reserve.  [...]

CCHQ has announced that the registration fee for the New Orleans conference originally announced at $115 will be dropped to $100 effective immediately. Anyone who may have registered at the $115 fee should call or email CCHQ and request a [...]

The USMCCCA Annual Conference will be held at the Westin Hotel September 12-16. There is currently an “early bird” registration fee of $100 per person available to ALL active duty, retired and others until Aug 31. The final registration date is 1600 Wednesday August 31. Registration may be made online (below) or by contacting the Executive [...]

If you use the link to the Westin Hotel to obtain your room for the 2011 Conference you may see a reference to $104 as the group hotel rate. This is incorrect.  The rate is $98.  If you have already made your reservation at $104, the hotel will adjust this at check [...]

Members wanting to get an early room reservation at the New Orleans Westin Hotel can go online and make their reservations for the upcoming September 12-16 conference. 
Guests can access the site to learn more about the event and to book, modify, or cancel a reservation from January 19, 2011 to September 17, 2011.  The special [...]

The Westin Hotel, New Orleans is the site of the 2011 USMCCCA Conference
National Conference: New Orleans Sept. 12-16
While we have alluded to it in both Now Hear This and on the Tic Toc notes on this website we are now making it official: There will be a conference in New Orleans from September 12-16at the [...]

CCHQ has worked out a special discount plan with Continental Airlines for the annual conference scheduled for New Orleans September 12-16.  Continental  offers discounts off published fares of 2% to 10% or Zone fares.   Call your travel professional or Continental Meeting Works at 800-468-7022 for reservations.  In order to get the discount you must refer [...]