Dassa wrote:
Actually I find it hard to understand Adelaide having issues with accommadation unless there was another major event at the same time. How does it cope with motor sport events, they used to hold some there didn't they?
Hotels don't like blocking all of their rooms to one event so you will never get all of their rooms.Count yourself lucky to get 50% of them. Also some have standing bookings, such as airline flight crews, etc., that cut down their actual usable capacity. Of course the secretariat know all of this.
For motor sport events there is a smaller percentage of non locals, more people in a single room and they are happy to travel further. Also I recall in the first years of the Formula One Grand Prix the GP office was organising home stays in addition to booking accomodation over 50km from the event. Not exactly ideal for an IETF.
When the Ring Cycle was in town all the hotels kept their rates at rack rate and insisted that all bookings conform to the cycle. This made it unworkable even though the convention centre was available.
Note Adelaide has more hotel beds now than in 2000 and while the building work at the Convention Centre is finished it build more exhibition space rather than more plenary rooms.
In short, unless you have tried to do this you probably don't realise how difficult it is to find a site suitable for the IETF.
Mark.
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