> Cheaper, yes. Easier? > > Sure, a 5-hour flight to Paris sure beats a 12-hour flight to New York plus a 4 hour flight to > Minneapolis, but you end up in Paris, and if the conference hotel is too expensive for your > corporate budget (it usually is for mine), you have to go really far away to find a hotel that > fits the budget and is not a fleabag. OTOH any city in the US except the really huge ones > (NY or LA) you can find perfectly good hotels that feature breakfast, Internet and a spacious > room for way lower than the Hilton rates, and not at all far from the conference. In Anaheim > I found a hotel at half price at 10 minutes walk time from the Hilton. And maybe it's just me, > but with US hotels, it's far easier to tell the fleabags from the acceptable hotels than in > Europe. > > Asia is even tougher. Flying to Taipei will take me to Paris and Hong Kong. And I have no > idea how to tell a good hotel from a bad one. I'll have to trust the travel agent. ...or TripAdvisor. People from other parts of the world probably have the same problem when travelling to US, but with a little bit of research effort I think it's pretty easy to get a picture of the hotel, how far it is from the meeting etc. Regards, Christer _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf