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Re: Registration open for IETF 114

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Mon, 09 May 2022 17:25 UTC

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John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> wrote:
    >> Last time early registration carried a much bigger  discount
    >> than this time. That is my only real concern.

    > I'd add one.  With online meetings prior to the pandemic, the
    > meeting page(s) listed alternate hotels and similar facilities
    > in the vicinity of the venue, ones that had been at least
    > minimally checked out in venue site visits.

Yes.  That had value to me as well.
At this point, I don't think that we actually have the numbers for overflow hotels.

    > Apparently, this
    > time, not only is the main hotel not heavily discounted, but
    > people looking for other options are apparently completely on
    > their own.  I can guess at some of the reasons for the former,
    > starting with lower and more uncertain attendee numbers but less
    > so for the latter.

The price of the main hotel hasn't been low, and often the IETF rate wasn't
discounted in any way.  This has been true for many years.
But, we fill out the promised block, we get available rooms which we might
now get, and we get way better network.
One advantage of the listed overflow hotels is that they was a much better
chance (90%+...) that all of the staff spoke english.  While some random
hotel you find through a web site, that chance is much lower.

In general, I have used airbnb's pre-pandemic, and I expect to use them again
in the future.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
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