On 8/22/14 10:36 AM, Michael StJohns wrote:
As for the cost of getting to/staying in Hawaii - if I averaged out
the cost of my various IETF plane tickets over say the last 5 years,
I would say that this is probably pretty close or below that average.
I would also say that the hotel costs are comparable and that the
travel times are within a sigma of my average over the last 5 years.
Because of my situation (living in interior Alaska), travel nearly
anywhere takes multiple flight segments and at least the better
part of a day. And because of my personal proclivities, Hawaii
in November sounds like a slice of hell. For me the clincher
is the likely unavailability of decent low-cost food (Orlando
was absolutely awful on that front), and if I go at all I'll only stay
a few days, strictly because of the venue. But that's me.
Everybody's different, so reasonable compromises seem reasonable.
(Although I still don't understand why we're not returning to
Minneapolis). The size of the meeting and the need for a large
number of sessions in parallel is likely to drive nearly all
other considerations, I think.
Melinda