Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions). Our first question is coming from Chris Wanka with Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.
Chris Wanka
Hey, good morning guys. Couple of questions, one, is could you -- on the National, can you just kind of confirm those issues you had in the first couple of days of not impacted the future booking space there? And then I will come back with another one.
Colin Reed
Yeah Chris, Colin, good morning. Chris on Saturday night, when we did our grand opening on Friday and Saturday, we had about 250 of the nations top meeting planner into the hotel. And also I have during the course of the last two to three weeks spoken with most of the meeting planners that held large conventions in the early part of April. And I will tell you to a person every meeting planner that stayed with us during the first part of April said you know, we are sorry that the rooms compression caused us you know for us to have to walk some people in the first week. The other two issues that were widely described were you know issues that everybody realized were outside of their control. And these meeting planners were very, very, very happy with the overall quality of this hotel, the performance of our people. And most of them have signed to come back to us. And now on Saturday night, I spent a long period of time walking with these meeting planners that came in from all over the country, I can tell you the comments that I got and the e-mails, I have subsequently received are incredibly exciting. These people are saying we have never seen a convention hotel looking like this. There is certainly is nothing like this in Washington or in the Eastern Seaboard. And so all I can tell you is what I am being told by the customer is that these people are going to come and they are going to book and I think you are going to be seeing that through the course of this year with bookings that we expect to secure on this hotel.
Chris Wanka
Okay, great. And then second one is, can you just talk a little about the forward pace for the future years that you mentioned the 263,000, I mean obviously, it is still very strong number for the first quarter, but I think some folks are looking at it relative to other quarters. I mean what are the some of the factors that influence that and just maybe kind of give us about 30,000 full overview of how those could play out and what if any issues kind of impacted it this quarter relative to the quarters?
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