Re: [93attendees] so, was there any crime?

[Randall Gellens <[e-mail]>]

At 11:13 AM +0200 7/24/15, Aaron Falk wrote:

>  I saw a great deal of FUD about the dangers of Prague (or cities, 
> in general), pickpockets and such.  In my experience, this has been 
> a great city for an IETF and I'd love to come back.  The hotel was 
> nice, the food and beer were cheap, the city is attractive, the 
> flight was reasonable cost.  As most folks have experienced, there 
> were some bumps (hotel reservations, network stability) but they 
> seemed transient and fixable in a future visit.  Did the threats of 
> pickpockets materialize?

I hope you're not suggesting that pickpockets are nonexistent here. 
At previous IETFs here there were a number of IETF participants who 
reported being victimized.  (Not that this is unique to Prague in any 
way.)  To characterize cautions against pickpockets as FUD seems a 
bit dismissive.  I hope that no participant was victimized, and that 
perhaps the cautions helped.

As European locations go, Prague seems on the whole OK.  As with 
every location, it has both advantages and disadvantages.  The 
difficulty in finding non-smoking restaurants, and the amount of 
smoke present in various locations within the hotel, were problems 
for me, but not sufficient to rule out Prague again.  The fact that 
we were given transit passes was a definite advantage.

You say that the network problems are fixable on a future visit. 
 From the NOC reports, I'd say that depends on if the hotel's provider 
replaces the APs, or guests bring their own APs (which I regret not 
doing).


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