[Venue-selection] Nassau venue comments
"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 07 September 2018 12:33 UTC
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Subject: [Venue-selection] Nassau venue comments
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The most likely venue in Nassau would be the Atlantis on Paradise Island. I've been to a couple of meetings there and although the conference facilities are pretty good, the hotel is so unpleasant that I will never return there. It is expensive and isolated, with food options starting with $7 slices of bad pizza, and the environment featuring drunken fathers with small children in the casino at 10 AM. (I wish I were making that up.) The other hotels on Paradise Island are too small to be plausible overflow options, there's no grocery store, just a tiny overpriced convenience store, and it's a long ferry or taxi ride to anywhere else. There's a new hotel complex between the city and the airport but its conference rooms look too small. I suppose in its favor, The Bahamas have the easiest visas in North America, no visa needed for China, visa on arrival for Indians who live in North America or Europe. Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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