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Excellent trip report. Thanks for taking the time to write this up! Thinking of a similar trip for next September. How were the rooms at the Royal Hotel and the Machrie?

And eventually they would end up as Pebble Beach North, albeit with five courses; i.e., priced out of the range of all but the most wealthy. Maybe it's inevitable. I get the efficiency of booking large groups. From a business perspective, if you're really focused on maximizing profits, it's a no-brainer. But I have been clinging to the faith in Mike Keiser's original purpose: to serve the Retail Golfer. Every year, there is less and less evidence that faith is warranted, and stories like TempoTown describes above are a perfect example of that. That scene would have never occurred ten years ago. I've had my own similar experiences with a large group of Toyota Sales guys who were treating the place like it was their personal playground. As his sons take over more and more of the operations of the organization, I've seen less and less focus on the Retail Golfer. This gives me less reason to think that his sons are going to carry that original purpose forward, especially once Mike is gone. But until that happens, (or they actually do price themselves out of my range), I'll keep going back.

There was one the last time I was there, details in the trip report here: https://forums.golfwrx.com/topic/2031014-bandon-trip-reports-post-em-here/ TLDR: Tsunami alert system works great, you can actually hear the town's sirens at the resort. They brought everyone in (similar to a lightning shut-down) for about thirty minutes, relayed through the marshals. Talking with a caddy afterwards, he said it was pretty much a clusterf*, as they had no real tsunami protocol. I bet they do now.

Wow. Having to change rooms every night would be really annoying. While they will move your gear for you, it still feels like you can never really arrive. Having said that, if you're not an Oregonian, at best you'll pay more for your rounds for the days you're not a resort guest, and at worst, they may not allow you to keep the reservations made while you were booked for all nights (that would be pretty awful, but an argument could be made for that policy). Have you asked them about this? Probably best to stick with the reservation, but I'd be calling them a LOT between now and your arrival date to check on room availability to get at least some of those moves mitigated. You might not end up with everyone settled in a room for the whole trip, but anything would help.