On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Jo Rhett <[email protected]> wrote:
> One LISA I stayed in the same Marriot for two weeks back to back. The > first week was LISA. I paid $169/night. The second week was a science > fiction convention, and I paid $99/night. For the same room. On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Arthur Gaer <[email protected]> wrote: > Let me add to this that while the room rate in the Boston Sheraton for > last month's LISA was $210 single per night/$230 double per night (plus > tax) the room rate at the same Boston Sheraton this past week for the Joint > Mathematics Meetings was $159 per night single and double. I randomly searched Google for conferences held at the Boston Sheraton, I found four, the rates were: $189, $199, $199, $201. The LISA rate of $210 is not far off. And to Arthur, one of those conferences was organized by Harvard. LISA conferences are booked farther in advance than small fan conventions. Hotels aren't going to give you a $99/night rate, three years in advance, with enough attendees to fill the hotel. They don't know what's going to happen in three years, they might be able to sell those rooms for their normal $200 rate. Now if you try to book two months in advance, and you aren't filling the hotel, they might look at their low occupancy and decide it's worth it to give you a $150/night rate for 100 rooms. Or the hotel might be be completely full, which is a risk USENIX can't take. LISA conferences also have a lot of requirements for conference space and internet access that smaller conferences don't have, which limits choice. And LISA tends to be held at hotels in good locations, with lots of food and transport near by. The Boston Sheraton is a nice hotel, in a great location, and I'd rather spend a week there than a week in an airport hotel. -Anton
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