EMEA FUDCon 2012, French bid

[Kévin Raymond]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Robyn Bergeron
<robyn.bergeron at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kévin,
>
> Bonjour! :) I think, and perhaps I might be biased here being, you
> know, of French origins and all, that it would be FABULOUS to have
> FUDCon in Paris.
>
> With regard to your question on number of rooms: I think normally we
> would ask a hotel about holding a block of 15-20 rooms (for 2 people
> per room), but making sure that we can increase that, if it becomes
> necessary, by maybe another 10-15 rooms. We dont' want to lock
> ourselves into being stuck with a huge bill if people can't come, but
> we don't want to wind up having people all over the place, either. :)

Ok, thanks so much for those details,

> My main concern here is whether or not having the event simultaneously
> with OWF would lead to a serious increase in hotel pricing. My
> understanding is that Paris is already above average in terms of hotel
> pricing as compared with other cities in Europe, and I'd like to make
> sure that we aren't looking at rooms that are 300 Euros/night... or
> that we can take the opportunity to avoid that type of pricing by
> making hotel agreements as soon as possible after a final bid is
> chosen. (I haven't read through your entire bid yet, so some of this
> may be detailed in there.)
>

no, we don't expect too huge prices.
There are many hotels, just need to find the good one(s).
Paris is too wide, I don't think the OWF will really be an big issue
with regards to accommodation
(and we will ask for quotes first!).
Organizing with the OWF let us work together with the Paris town
administration, I hope to have some clue from them.

> Good luck! :)

Cheers!

>
> -Robyn
>

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