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Re: All these discussions about meeting venues

2010-09-16 11:42:38


On 9/15/2010 9:44 AM, Ole Jacobsen wrote:
I have been told that there was a free bus every ten minutes from the
MECC to central Maastricht. I did not use it so I cannot say if this
is accurate or not, but assuming it is, would that satisfy? (The ride
to town would have been about 5 minutes).


Ahh, so the regular 15-30 minute waits that I and others experienced didn't really happen? We must have just had bad timing. (The bus between the venue and my hotel ran, at most, twice an hour. And my hotel was one of the ones recommended on the IETF site.)

And, of course, all of this would have been additionally delightful if we had had to wait in the rain. I'm told that it does rain occasionally in The Netherlands.

In any event, taking a bus to/from one's hotel is different from needing to take it to get any variety in lunch. Anecdotes about someone having done this do not make it reasonable for 1000 attendees to rely on it.

d/

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  Dave Crocker
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