At the risk of repeating myself, there will be a JTB link which allows reservations several other nearby hotels. I agree that this ideally should have been available at the time registration and booking for the main hotel opened, but I understand that there are legitimate reasons why this did not happen. Look for more information from Ray this week. Ole On Sun, 16 Aug 2015, Melinda Shore wrote: > On 8/16/15 9:39 AM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: > > The Intercontinental is not a particularly large hotel, but it IS > > the hotel directly connected to the venue. The venue is a conference > > center, not a hotel. I think you will find the venue quite excellent, > > and access to other hotels easy. > > In Vienna the hotel was not connected to the meeting venue > but still had plenty of space. There are probably a lot of > reasons for wanting to stay in the meeting hotel. It > would not be surprising if there's a hotel rush for IETF > 95 as a result, including more reservations made by people > who might be going but aren't sure, since we've got no way > of knowing if there are 300 rooms or 1300 rooms. > > I suppose this is an appropriate please to inject yet another > plea for de-emphasizing meetings in IETF process. > > Melinda > >