Harald Tveit Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >actually the cheapest place, hotel-price-wise, to hold IETFs would probably >be in a tourist trap on the off-season (the Riviera in October, after all >the bathers have gone home, but before the staff leaves the hotel...) I say: For North America Vale Colorado during the summer is 1/5 the costs of winter. Fly to Denver, take a van for $27 both ways, hotels slightly off Vale; (but still accessable via a free urban bus route, absolutely no reason to rent a car), are cheap. The place has everything. I was impressed with the two public swimming pools with water slides; (Uhmmm, for dogs)! There is a ampphtheatre with a glassy lawn and shaded area too. You could have a session outside. Weather is (usually) perfect. Very expensive when the ski thing goes down... Very underappreciated in summer. Dan