Re: [Mtgvenue] Issue #24: More than 1 hq hotel?

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Eliot Lear <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > Returning to this issue, I noted that there really was only one
    > significant reference to the headquarters hotel.  As such, what I
    > propose to do is remove the definition and state the following:

    > OLD:
    >> The Headquarters Hotel has a space for use as a lounge, [...]
    > NEW:
    >> At least one IETF Hotel has a space for use as a lounge, [...]

So, you cut some context:
      These can be at an open bar or casual
      restaurant.  Preferably the lounge area is on the path between the
      meeting rooms and the hotel entrance, and is available all day
      and night.

(I think "lounge" is confusing as a term, because we now have an IETF Lounge.
I suggest "Canonical Bar", but maybe another term would be better)

The fact that the lounge is on the path between rooms and entrance is
very very relevant. If it's not in the hotel with the meeting rooms, then it
serves no utility.

Chicago's hotel bar, while small, was very ideally placed, particularly for
people who were not staying at the hotel to "run into" people on their way
to the street.

I guess that I can live with the new text, given the "preferably" part.
I *DO* think that the lack of a canonical bar has hurt many a meeting venue,
the worst I experienced was Vienna, but I think Maastrick and Dublin (neither
of which I was at), was equally a problem.  Montreal, when we were at the
Congress Center while having the QE hotel as the "HQ", was another example.

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