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Re: 66th IETF - Registration and Hotel Accommodations

2006-04-20 14:40:51
On 4/20/06 at 4:21 PM -0400, John C Klensin wrote:

--On Thursday, 20 April, 2006 14:15 -0500 Pete Resnick <presnick(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com> wrote:

Does anybody know the walking distances to the venue from hotels on the east side? I plan to vacation there the week before, and both the Hôtel XIXe siècle and the Hôtel Place d'Armes look charming and within a block or two (and I can get a decent rate).

Of course, nobody has yet answered my question. :)

(For the record, the Holiday Inn Select Centre-Ville seems really close, and relatively cheap.

And now perhaps may be sold out. Ah well.

 The St-James is also close, but now so cheap. :-) )

"Not" so cheap, I meant, of course. The St-James is a *rather* impressive looking hotel.

This is the first time in a long time I'm seriously considering *not* staying at the conference hotel. I'm not sure I see the point.

Free Internet access?

Seen at the other hotels I've been looking at.

Same bar most other people are trying to meet in (as far as I can tell from the web site, the hotel's (only?) bar closes at 11PM. There might be other options, but, if they exist, it isn't possible to tell from the information we have been supplied.

As far back as I can remember (which starts about 11 years ago for me), at every IETF where *the* hotel was not directly connected to the meeting venue (Vienna, Yokohama, Montreal), and even some where the bar was a long distance from the meeting rooms, the hotel bar does not get used nearly to the extent that it does in other circumstances. I find more often that people gather outside of the meeting rooms and wander to whatever watering-hole is closest. I suspect that's going to be the Intercontinental bar or some other places nearby at this meeting. But again, it's hard to tell how far things really are.

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Pete Resnick <http://www.qualcomm.com/~presnick/>
QUALCOMM Incorporated
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