From my reasonably extensive experience of international travel, $200/night is actually quite a lot. That's €154 or £130. In contrast, I've stayed in the centre of Paris at short notice for €116/night, and in the centre of London for ~£80/night, both at fairly decent hotels. Paris and London are both more expensive cities that Hong Kong, so I'd expect the daily rate here to be closer to $130/night, and ideally less than that where bookings are made sufficiently in advance.
I don't think the issue here is with AffCom; rather, it's with the WMF's standard choices of hotels, which tend towards the more expensive options. I hope that the WMF can revise its approach here and start selecting more reasonably-priced hotels for those it's booking accommodation for, whether they are volunteers or staff. Thanks, Mike On 13 May 2013, at 20:45, Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: > $200 per person per night for international travel is not outrageous. > It's actually quite reasonable, in my opinion, for business travel. I > don't think it reasonable to expect people who don't know eachother or > even work together to room together for a week in a foreign country. > The question you should be asking isn't "are the rates of expenses in > Hong Kong too high" but "did the purpose of the travel justify the > facially reasonable expenses." > > ~Nathan > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
