RE: Hawaii Block - going, going....

I did a search just before I sent the previous e-mail :)

Regards,

Christer

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From: Thomas Clausen [ietf(_at_)thomasclausen(_dot_)org]
Sent: Tuesday, 26 August 2014 10:10 PM
To: Christer Holmberg
Cc: joel jaeggli; dcrocker(_at_)bbiw(_dot_)net; ietf; Stewart Bryant
Subject: Re: Hawaii Block - going, going....

Christer,

Odd - I actually looked there, and they quoted me some $300+tax earlier this 
afternoon. Will look again when I have better net access tonight.

Thomas

> On 26 Aug 2014, at 21:00, Christer Holmberg 
> <christer(_dot_)holmberg(_at_)ericsson(_dot_)com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The DoubleTree, 5 minutes by foot from the Hilton, currently has a 
> saturday-2-saturday rate of 189 USD (no resort tax). The rate is refundable 
> (same 72 hour cancellation policy as the Hilton IETF rate).
>
> It has got good reviews on TripAdviser, and D3 has never let me down so far...
>
> Regards,
>
> Christer
>
> ________________________________________
> From: joel jaeggli [joelja(_at_)bogus(_dot_)com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 26 August 2014 9:44 PM
> To: dcrocker(_at_)bbiw(_dot_)net; Thomas Clausen; Christer Holmberg
> Cc: ietf; Stewart Bryant
> Subject: Re: Hawaii Block - going, going....
>
> > On 8/26/14 11:36 AM, Dave Crocker wrote:
> > > On 8/26/2014 11:25 AM, joel jaeggli wrote:
> > > When I looked, the equus which is like two blocks away was like $145,
> > > for the IETF dates.
> > >
> > > I'm not saying I recomend it, but the problem with Honolulu isn't a lack
> > > of hotels
> >
> > Now I'm confused.
> >
> > I thought there was a goal of having a reasonable range of nearby hotel
> > costs, for hotels that were actually reasonable to stay at.
> >
> > Citing the cost goal, without satisfying the adequacy goal, seems a bit
> > odd, Joel.
> Never stayed there so I can't speak to adequacy, I considered it but
> $185 seems like a pretty good deal for the hilton. proximity is not
> disputable.
>
>
> > d/