RE: IETF 71 - no room at the inn at all on Thursday

["Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood at cable.comcast.com>]

Our site is still down for the move at the moment, should be back up
soon.  That site lists all of the nearby hotels, most of which have a
special Comcast rate.  I would simply ask that you read the "special
rate notice" at the bottom of our hotels page and let me know if I can
assist further.

Jason 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John L [mailto:johnl at iecc.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:19 PM
> To: Mikko Saarnivala
> Cc: Livingood, Jason; ietf at ietf.org
> Subject: Re: IETF 71 - no room at the inn at all on Thursday
> 
> >> I am sure you can find something to stay for the duration.
> 
> The question isn't whether there's other hotels in 
> Philadelphia, of course there are, although it wouldn't be 
> easy to find something as nice, and close as the Doubletree 
> for $169 which is quite a good price for Center City.
> 
> I was wondering why the Doubletree doesn't have the block of 
> rooms available that they promised to the IETF.  The 
> reservation agent said she saw the room block, but it didn't 
> have rooms Thursday like it did for the rest of the week.  
> Unless there's a vast number of IETFers only staying Thursday 
> night, which seems rather unlikely, Hilton didn't provide the 
> room block they said they would.  I would have thought their 
> long term agreement with the IETF would prevent just this 
> kind of problem.
> 
> R's,
> John
> 
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