I am still not convinced that there is a shortage of other places for lunch.
Citywest (that the hotel is part of)
http://www.citywest.ie/
is a large business campus (including some companies that will be familiar to IETF participants)
In their list of amenities it says that there is "a choice of restaurants and coffee shops" within the complex and nearby. As there would have to be to support a large white collar employee base..
And I found several well reviewed lunchtime restaurants (including a food hall with well reviewed "takeaway") in Saggart and Rathcoole.
e.g.,
http://www.menupages.ie/Dublin/Restaurants/Saggart
http://www.menupages.ie/Dublin/Restaurants/Rathcoole
and a little further away
http://www.menupages.ie/Dublin/Restaurants/Newcastle
http://www.menupages.ie/Dublin/Restaurants/Lucan
Personally, I am not worried about finding places for lunch outside the hotel.
Janet
The resort may be "self contained", but it appears to be by no means "isolated".
Janet
ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx wrote on 02/06/2008 02:29:43 PM:
>
> Hi Edward,
>
> On Wed, February 6, 2008 10:29 am, Edward Lewis wrote:
> > At 8:37 -0800 2/6/08, $someone wrote:
> >
> >>The descriptions of the venue make clear that, once again, the IETF is
> >> meeting
> >>in a ghetto. Periodic bus service doesn't counteract that.
> >
> > I really have a hard time being sympathetic to this complaint. If
> > the purpose of the IETF is open discussion and cross-pollination,
> > what does it matter where we are so long as there's comfortable
> > access to the expertise needed? Is there an unwritten requirement
> > that IETFs are placed to afford us sightseeing? To afford us access
> > to restaurants?
>
> Think about why a beer in a bar in a city center costs 1/4 the price
> of a beer in the airport of that same city-- captive audience, it's not
> like you can go anywhere else.
>
> Now, this IETF is at a premier golf resort, 15km outside of city
> center. That means we'll be a captive audience and we will all eat at
> the hotel restaurant day in and day out and most likely pay far more
> than we should.
>
> The issue isn't about sightseeing, although that's always nice, it's
> about forcing people to choose between the same overpriced food you ate
> for the past two days and possibly missing a session (so you can go out
> and get a reasonable meal at a reasonable price).
>
> [snip]
> > Calling any venue that I have ever been in for any kind of a
> > conference "a ghetto" is quite an insult to folks that do live in
> > "ghettos" or other unfortunate places that I have seen. I don't know
> > if it is true now, but as of a few years ago, the IETF had never
> > ventured to a country or economy where the expected life span of a
> > person was below the global mean/average. Other conferences do
> > regularly, "even ICANN." That's where you can see a ghetto - on the
> > way from the airport to the 5-star hotel.
>
> Please. A ghetto is a homogeneous region for some sort of homogeneity.
> That could be ethnic but "ghetto" is not necessarily some slur against
> poor people or people of some ethnic background. In this case the ghetto
> is going to be golfers, most likely affluent ones, in their plus-fours
> and some plaid nightmare of an outfit.
>
> We've already lost the word "niggardly" and the phrase "chocolate
> soldier", neither of which have ethnic or racial connotation, to
> political correctness. Let's not toss out "ghetto" too.
>
> Dan.
>
>
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