Dear Venue visitors, Can we have feedback on the visit a.s.a.p?
Regards, Pierre 2012/7/18 Steve Holden <[email protected]> > Nick: > > Please find attached a report on a site visit for PyCon done recenty. I've > updated the wiki page, but thought you might want to see the level of > detail. > > Some of the hotel stuff may be unnecessary - we are working on getting you > hotel information right now. > > regards > Steve > > PyCon Site Visits > > - Report on Montreal Site Visit follows > > City - The city is amazing! There are endless things to do and great food > to try. The venue page will be swamped with information. Most of the hotels > we looked at have underground tunnels connecting them to the convention > center so if we get bad weather, most people do not have to go out into it > if they do not want to. There are many areas with plenty of food options in > walking distance from the convention center. > > The Convention Center - This is a huge Convention Center. We are spread > out between a few floors, but I think we can make it work because the > structure of the building is straight forward unlike the Santa Clara > Convention Center. We have to be very careful to make signage and maps > clear. Below is the break down: > > On the 2nd Level we have the Exhibit Hall space. It is very large. It was > intended for our lunches, butonsite I switched (signed addendum for it) > what we reserved for the expo hall to the large space on the 2nd level. I > think it would be wise to put registration outside of this area. We also > decided on having the buffet lunch in the same area as the exhibits. The > space that used to be the expo hall on the 4th floor will now be a break > out room for our conference sessions. > > On the 4th Level we have the green room. On the 5th Level we have the > tutorial rooms and the sprint rooms. We also have breakouts on this level > along with the plenary. On the 7th Level we have two breakouts. > > The Hotels- These hotels are all within walking distance. I walked to > every single one of them. Additionally, there are under ground tunnels that > will take you from the hotels to the Convention Center and vice versa. All > of the hotels below are Free Internet for all of our attendees. > > -Hyatt Regency [169$ CDN] - The farthest away. It is a nice hotel just > like the one in Santa Clara. In my option, if they do not lower it to $149, > we shouldn't get any rooms there. Not worth the walking. > > -Holiday Inn Select [163$ CDN] - The quality of the hotel is not worth the > nightly rate. Maybe if it was $90/ night then it would be considered. > > -Le Dauphin - [158$ CDN] - This is perfect for our attendees. It is > contemporary, clean, close, and at a good rate. I want to take all of their > rooms. Unfortunately, they only have about 100 of them. > > -InterContinental [179$ CDN] - Across the street from the CC. This > property is a 4 diamond property. They are willing to work out an early > bird price for us that is 179$ CDN ($176 USD) up to 60 days prior and then > 199$ CDN after that (with a two year contract). There is going to be a one > night guarantee charged and that is also the penalty for the cancellations. > Beautiful property though and great food. Corporate attendees will love it. > I think getting this place to 169$ CDN would be a great deal. I am working > on this. > > -The Westin [243$ CDN] - Across the street from the CC. This is a nice > property. They may lower to $179. It is a nice property, but the > InterContinental is much fancier so I do not think they should be the same > price. I will see if I can lower it another $10/night. > > -Le Place D'Armes [196$ CDN] - Great place, but working to get a lower > price. A few rooms at this hotel would be nice, but not huge block. (they > do not have many to offer anyways) > > -The Delta [149$ CDN] - This property used to be a Hyatt so it looks very > similar to what our attendees are familiar with. This property has good > food. It is $149 CDN per night and about a 5 minute walk to the Convention > Center. I definitely want to get a decent room block at this hotel. It's > not super modern like the Hyatt in Montreal, but it is A LOT cheaper and it > is an average property. > > On Jul 18, 2012, at 5:27 AM, Nick Burch wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Bernd Fondermann wrote: > >> Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend. I've started at a new project > this week and this leads to collisions now I wasn't expecting. I'm very > sorry. Keep up the good work, though. > > > > That's a shame :/ > > > > Any chance you could have a think about the questions you would have > asked, and the photos you would have taken, then add them to the wiki[1]? > > > > Nick > > > > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/concom-planning/ACEU12SiteVisit > > -- > Steve Holden [email protected], Holden Web, LLC http://holdenweb.com/ > Python classes (and much more) through the web http://oreillyschool.com/ > Conferences and technical event management at http://theopenbastion.com/ > Next: DjangoCon US Sep 6-8, Washington DC http://djangocon.us/ > > > >
