Two years ago, the LISA conference was in Baltimore. Yes, the hotel conference rate was a bit pricy. Downtown $big-city-anywhere is pricy. Sadly, my office could not afford to send me that year, so I went on my own dime. (Note, it wasn't the hotel price.. there was just no travel money for me, period.) As a gamble, I tried priceline- and ended up getting a room, in the conference hotel, for about 60% of the conference rate.
My points on this are, a) Negotiated prices are just that, and there's a LOT of weirdness that goes into the pricing. I have to trust that Usenix does its best. I have been involved in many other conferences across the years, and I did not ever consider Usenix conference rates and anomaly from any other similar venue. b) BUT-- if you're unhappy with the conference rate, you certainly can try booking yourself; through any of SEVERAL discount options available to you. I tried one such avenue, and had great success. If you're unhappy with the supplier, then find a new supplier... _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
