Re: IETF 97 - Registration and Hotel Reservations Open Now!

[Donald Eastlake <[e-mail]>]

Well, there are 434 sleeping room in the Conrad Seoul according to
their web site so I expect that the 400 in the IETF block were
essentially all the ordinary rooms and all at the IETF rate while the
remaining 34 are all larger/special rooms at higher rates. The other
participating hotels have reasonable rates and seem fairly close.

Thanks,
Donald
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On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 9:45 PM, John C Klensin <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>
> --On Friday, August 12, 2016 11:32 +1000 grenville armitage
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> t's quick -- 4hrs after your email is sent, and the Conrad
>> Seoul (Headquarters Hotel, block of 400 rooms) website is
>> already saying "The requested rate is not available. View
>> other available rooms and rates below." for a GIETF booking
>> between Nov.12 and Nov.19
>
> What you didn't mention is that the rooms that are still
> available have starting prices at about twice the rate listed in
> the announcement and go up from there.  So I wonder, is that a
> block of 400 rooms at the IETF rate?  Or a block of a few rooms
> at the IETF rate with the rest of the 400 held for us at any
> price the hotel thinks it can get?
>
> Of course, if the contract were posted, even in redacted form,
> we could presumably find that out, but the IAOC has decided that
> information is too secret for us to know.
>
> I was considering actually coming to that meeting, but, at circa
> USD 450/room/night including taxes... not likely.
>
> best,
>     john
>