Re: InterContinental BA experience so far (was: Re: Hotel situation)

Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar> Fri, 25 December 2015 08:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: InterContinental BA experience so far (was: Re: Hotel situation)
To: Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com>, ietf@ietf.org
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From: Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar>
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On 12/24/2015 09:28 PM, Melinda Shore wrote:
> On 12/24/15 2:04 PM, John Levine wrote:
>> It's a little late now, but the distance info on the IETF hotel page
>> for the Intercontinental is wrong.  It's not 2 km from the Hilton,
>> it's 9 km away [ ... ]
> 
> What's your basis for saying this?  I don't know Buenos
> Aires but the maps are pretty clear that it's more or less
> 2km.

While I certainly don't mean to provide advice wrt acommodation options,
looking at sites like booking.com there were way cheaper and good
options at 1km from the Hilton -- you may want to take a look.

Thanks,
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