Toerless,
I am glad you found the location workable, in spite of the meeting
room maze, expensive rooms in the main hotel and even minor hassles
caused by "snow" during the initial weekend.
The Metropole is apparently London's larges conference hotel with
that many meeting rooms under (sort of) one roof. Alternative venues
would typically take us to the convention centers which are rarely
in the city center (I am not speaking about London specifically here),
and typically have far fewer options in terms of restaurants, shops,
and other hotels (try for example Amsterdam). So I agree that the
Metropole is a good tradeoff.
To Jared's point: I think we should create a new sponsorship
opportunity: A power strip with N(1) universal outlets connected to
a cable "tail" with a local plug. I actually own such a thing
where the "tail" is itself a power cable that can be detached
from the strip and replaced according to local environments,
that is to say a C13 at one end and a "local plug" at the other.
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, Toerless Eckert wrote:
> +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:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> > >
> > > ???Tom
> > >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > - Stewart
>
>
