Re: [78attendees] WARNING !!! Re: Maastricht to Brussels-Nat-Aero, Sat

At 12:58 AM -0700 8/28/10, Fred Baker wrote:

>  Hiroshima, Barcelona, and Maastricht are equally "secondary" to me. 
> I take a commuter flight, I take a flight between hubs, and I do 
> something else (flight or train, and the train's a lot more 
> comfortable than flying), and I'm there. If I'm on three flights or 
> two and a train, to me that's pretty normal. Leaves me wondering 
> what the fuss is about.
I'm glad it was so easy for you to get to Maastricht and Hiroshima. 
I know that a number of people had equally easy access.  However, 
others had much more difficult journeys, involving multiple 
trains/taxis, and confusing and conflicting information.

>  If you're arguing against Maastricht on the basis of it being 
> secondary, do you really want to go there?
Maastricht is not well-connected to international airports in the summer.

>  I agree they need to be good venues. Was Hiroshima a good venue, by 
> your analysis? It seemed very good to me. So did Maastricht, 
> although we had to fix the Internet access in the conference hotel. 
> My only complaint there, to be honest, is that I used Swisscom in 
> the Crowne Plaza and several other hotels while in Europe, and with 
> the exception of the NH Airport Brussels, they all had loss rates 
> on the order of 1% or greater for the duration that I was 
> measuring. I thought Maastricht was a great city.
In Hiroshima, we met in a large hotel in a dense area.  In 
Maastricht, there was only one hotel close to where we met, and the 
Internet access required a Herculean effort that I don't think we 
have a right to demand.  (It was difficult to find smoke-free food in 
Hiroshima, except for the nearby department store's food court, but I 
can live with that.)
So, I'd say both Maastricht and Hiroshima were hard to get to, and 
Maastricht additionally had less good facilities.
--
Randall Gellens
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