+1 on on what Stewart said. I would also venture to say that
i found the London location extremely well fitting the
requirements:
My flight from California (United) was only $700. Of which seemingly
almost $500 where airport/immigration etc. taxes/fees. I don't
remember from last time, but maybe London has amongst the highest
rate of airline competition, making it cheaper reachable than other
cities ? If thats not just a one-off data point, that
certainly brings up London in my ranking.
My Hotel was just across the street for under 90 GBP, and i think
there was a good selection of hotels in the vicinity.
Travel to/from the airport is very easy/fast with heathrow express,
and there are even cheaper public transport options.
The hotel setup for the meeting rooms and especially public areas (cafe,
bar) was very supportive of collaboration and hallway talks.
The neighborhood of Paddington was interrestingly renewed/upgraded,
with a lot of restaurant choices in walking distance (e.g.: along
the canal).
Edgware road was full of small convenience stores open late for
utilities like bottled water etc.
Se rest of the experience like the hotel being a maze where but quaint
quirks of the event to me.
Overall, my preoccupation was always London being very expensive,
which is certainly true overall, but for he choosen location it
seems to well controllable. Plus the potential of good
airfares ?!.
Cheers
Toerless
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:00:31PM +0000, Stewart Bryant wrote:
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> On 21/03/2018 21:36, Thomas Nadeau wrote:
> > This has come up before, and I agree %100 with Anton???s points. In a world where companies are reducing travel budgets by the quarter, having meetings in expensive and hard to get to places should be the last option. We really need to focus choices pragmatically - on having meetings in places where its feasible for a significant amount of people to get to and have a meeting - not in places where its fun to do tourism things. I am sorry, but those days are over.
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> > ???Tom
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> I want somewhere simple, practical, economic and safe, where the
> only people who come are those that want to work and the only thing
> we do is work on the design of the Internet.
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> - Stewart
