Re: 66th IETF - Registration and Hotel Accommodations

[Pete Resnick <presnick at qualcomm.com>]

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.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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