[Foss4g2009] Preferred Accommodation

[Mark Leslie]

This was done months ago, hence the list on the web site.  In response 
to our request for a variety of accommodations and price ranges, Tour 
Hosts has  arranged for several hotels for us, so they can all be 
considered to be recommended for a given level of luxury.

I haven't actually tried any of these hotels, but the Hotel Ibis seems 
to be the cheapest convenient hotel of the bunch.  It has the two 
mandatory features in each room: air conditioning and internet.

The YHA actually has group rates, for 10-40 people at 33AUD per person 
(4 per room), though I seem to recall that they don't have a conference 
rate.

Unless anyone has any experiences at these hotels, I would suggest we 
work under the assumption that the Hotel Ibis Darling Harbour will be 
the most popular.

Mark



Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Julia,
> Prior conferences have recommended a prefered conference venue, and the 
> venue has then blocked out rooms on behalf of the conference.
> 
> I assume with your contacts that this is something that Arinex can 
> easily set up?
> 
> Julia Vernon wrote:
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>> Dear Cameron and Mark,
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>> Based purely on location the three you have listed below are the 
>> closest to the conference centre (Hotel Ibis Darling, Harbour, Novotel 
>> Sydney on Darling Harbour and Grand Mercure Apartments One Darling 
>> Harbour).
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>> All of the hotels are recommended by us but ultimately people will be 
>> driven by price and location.
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>> The one recommendation I will make is to contact the hotels early to 
>> ensure availability.
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>> Regards
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>> Julia
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>> > -----Original Message-----
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>> > From: Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com] On Behalf Of
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>> > Cameron Shorter
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>> > Sent: Tuesday, 14 July 2009 13:48
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>> > To: Mark Leslie
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>> > Cc: foss4g2009 at lists.osgeo.org; Claude Philipona; Julia Vernon
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>> > Subject: Re: [Foss4g2009] Preferred Accommodation
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>> > Julia,
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>> > Is Tour Hosts in a position to offer some unbiased advice on which
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>> > accommodation we should recommend all foss4g delegates stay at (so
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>> > people are staying with friends)?
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>> > Mark Leslie wrote:
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>> > > In my period efforts to get the workshops all lined up in an orderly
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>> > > fashion, I was asked a question that I hadn't considered before, and
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>> > > I'm hoping others can weigh in.
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>> > > What is the preferred hotel for people attending the conference, as
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>> > > Fountains Hotel was in Cape Town?
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>> > > Now, I wasn't able to attend Cape Town, so there may be insights here
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>> > > I'm missing (maybe it would be best to avoid Sydney's version of
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>> > > Fountains Hotel), but looking through the list on the website I 
>> see no
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>> > > clear winners either way.
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>> > > The three hotels right on the harbour are the Hotel Ibis Darling
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>> > > Harbour, Novotel Sydney on Darling Harbour and Grand Mercure
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>> > > Apartments One Darling Harbour.  Each easily within crawling distance
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>> > > of the conference center.  On the other hand, the YHA is priced right
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>> > > and has easy train access.  There's also 
>> http://www.couchsurfing.org/,
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>> > > but I don't think you'll get everyone in the same place.
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>> > > Has anybody already booked, or considered where they're planning on
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>> > > staying?
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