> On 17 Aug 2015, at 07:47, Toerless Eckert <eckert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > How many rooms does the hotel have ? What percentage of rooms did > we have blocked in other comparable sized hotels ? Is this on-par ? > I thought to remember we always had at least ca. 500 rooms blocked. > > IMHO there is nothing wrong to have IETF less explore good tourist locations > but return to places of known good work environments. I loved visiting > friends in Tokyo and we had a great party at Landmark Tower for Yokohama fireworks > last time, but pacifico didn't strike me as more than average and > the social event at the gym was memorable, but not in a good way. Indeed, but the organisers seem to be saying there are no, or very few, equivalent types of meeting places like Prague, Vancouver or Minneapolis in Asia, which is I assume why some recent previous Asian meetings have been held outside Asia. The question then is whether we should compromise or not. Personally, I prefer the large single site venues, moreso when several hours out of my own timezone. Tim