Receiving more E-Mail does not equate to "knowing more." Just an observation... :-) -----Original Message----- From: ietf [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Toerless Eckert Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 5:06 PM To: Stewart Bryant Cc: IETF Discussion Subject: Re: Yokohama Hotels Update was Re: [BOFChairs] IETF 94 - Registration and Hotel Information - no availablity The main problem with the experience was that there was seemingly no sufficient upfront communication about the circumstances to set expectations of participants right. Having made the same mistake i'll hardly want to blame anyone at IETF organization, just ask for the future to err on the side of overloading us with details about what you deal with rather than on the "as little as we feel is necessary" side. Short of knowing more, this whole discussion is just an ideal example for a friends signature: "It's much easier to have an opinion if you do not understand the problem" Cheers Toerless On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:59:00PM +0100, Stewart Bryant wrote: > On 17/08/2015 21:57, Ray Pelletier wrote: > >All; > > > >Here is where things stand. > > > >1. "Headquarters Hotel? > > > >Our Host, WIDE, is attempting to obtain more guest rooms in the > >InterContinental Yokohama Grand. > > > >The InterContinental Yokohama Grand has 475 standard rooms, but would > >only allow us to book 300 rooms on the peak nights of Monday and > >Tuesday. They said they had to accommodate their existing corporate > >and airline contracts. > > > >Wednesday and Thursdays were contracted for fewer rooms, 289 and 250. > >We contracted for the rooms using the usual Bell Curve, which > >typically reflects that some folks depart on Wednesday and more on > >Thursday. This was a mistake on our part. if those rooms had been > >available we should have contracted for the max we could get. > > > Ray > > How do these numbers compare to the past three meetings? > > - Stewart -- --- Toerless Eckert, eckert@xxxxxxxxx