BTW, I found that like with many previous IETF meetings, if you call your local travel department, they can often get far cheaper rates for the rooms at the hotel. For some reason, the IETF "negotiates" rates that seem to be MSRP. For this one, for example, I got something like a %40 discount on the IETF rate. --Tom > But that was then and now is now 8->. One could simply say "suck it up". > > Sent from my iPhone > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of >> Henk Uijterwaal >> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 6:55 PM >> To: ietf@xxxxxxxx >> Subject: Re: Has anyone found a hotel for Quebec City that isn't >> exorbitant? >> >> On 19/06/2011 08:01, Glen Zorn wrote: >>> On 6/18/2011 9:52 PM, Keith Moore wrote: >>> >>>> Frankly, I'm appalled at the prices and think it's highly >> inappropriate for >>>> IETF to be meeting in venues where the "conference hotels" are so >>>> expensive. >> >> May I point out that there has been a survey on the topic and the >> community >> expressed a clear preference for Quebec over other Canadian cities, >> knowing >> that travel would be longer and the number of cheap alternative hotels >> smaller. >> >> Henk >> >> -- >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ------- >> Henk Uijterwaal Email: henk(at)uijterwaal.nl >> http://www.uijterwaal.nl >> Phone: +31.6.55861746 >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ------- >> >> There appears to have been a collective retreat from reality that day. >> (John Glanfield, on an engineering >> project) >> _______________________________________________ >> Ietf mailing list >> Ietf@xxxxxxxx >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf