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Re: Hawaii Block - going, going, gone for Saturday

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 26 August 2014 23:38 UTC

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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:38:35 +1200
From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Hawaii Block - going, going, gone for Saturday
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On 27/08/2014 10:12, Tim Chown wrote:
> On 26 Aug 2014, at 22:32, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
> 
>> I booked a few days ago, and it said they were sold out of IETF rooms
>> on Saturday the 8th, but were OK for the rest of the week.
>>
>> Are more people arriving early than used to be the case?
> 
> If I travel from Europe to North America, I always land on the Saturday before, and leave on the Friday evening.  If you fly Sunday to Friday the hike in fare for not flying over one Saturday night is noticeable. I’d imagine that’s not uncommon. 

Flying from NZ to HI, I will arrive the day before I leave, so I
booked my room with very great care (and within 3.5 hours of the
Secretariat announcement). But in answer to John: in my case,
yes, I will arrive earlier than usual, paying for a few days
myself. However, the external evidence is that the reserved
block was too small.

   Brian

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