By the time I registered, there didn't seem to be much availability, and what there was was in the $400-$500, pay up front, no cancellations zone. Instead, my company rented an apartment for the week and we had tons of space and privacy for 5 of us who attended. Definitely something to consider doing again.
-C On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Jess Holle <[email protected]> wrote: > I had even worse issues last year. > > I couldn't find anything (apart from places with *really* scary reviews) > less than $400 or $500 per night. I'd never had such an issue with any > previous Java One, having always managed to stay in the parc 55, francis > drake, or other nice places. Even decent corporate travel policies have > their limits. > > I ended up in downtown Oakland. It worked pretty well thanks to the train, > but it seemed rather silly given that Oracle could have saved everyone the > trouble by not having Java One and Open World at the same time. > > > On 10/24/2011 3:03 PM, Carl of the Posse wrote: > > To defend Dick a bit: I was the one who booked our rooms. I checked the > links through the conference and also via Orbitz, and saw prices in the many > hundreds per day. Some were $1000+, but I guess there are always a few of > those. > > For us, $300+ per night per person was a bit out of our budget--we don't > have a big revenue stream :). So our $130 per night via Orbitz seemed like a > good deal at the time. Maybe I failed in getting to the conference pricing: > I'll try harder to use that next year. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/NfGy3O14vZMJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
