Vancouver is pretty expensive in summer. Can be twice the rate of November. Weather. Stephan S. Sent from my iPad On Jun 20, 2011, at 21:49, Henk Uijterwaal <henk.uijterwaal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 21/06/2011 03:24, Randall Gellens wrote: >> At 3:55 AM +0200 6/20/11, Henk Uijterwaal wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >> My recollection, which of course could easily be flawed, is that the survey did >> not make clear that travel is significantly more difficult to Quebec than other >> Canadian cities, nor that hotels are more expensive. My recollection is that >> after the survey there was much discussion of this issue, with a number of >> people pointing out a number of fairly important problems with the survey. Off >> the top of my head, in addition to not mentioning the travel issue, also >> included lumping together into "this group" or "that group" cities which are >> very different in terms of travel connection, venue suitability, cost, etc. > > I checked and the survey said that the advantage of Vancouver (the alternative > for Quebec) was that travel to Vancouver was a lot easier than to Quebec. > > At the time when the survey was taken, Quebec had the advantage that there was > a much wider range of alternative/cheaper hotels available than in Vancouver > within reasonable distance of the meeting venue. > > Of course, room rates outside the host hotel are not under the control of the > IETF and can change in the 2 years between fixing the location and the actual > meeting. > > 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