Conferences
I missed the time stamp on this one, but perhaps folks will forgive me. Scientific conferences are a funny thing and I guess I could rant in a multi-part post on the topic about it. Maybe I will. Recently I've learned the lesson that you do a lot better if you get on the web and book your own hotel nearby the meeting. For reasons I don't understand, conferences insist on being held in very expensive hotels and conference rates usually are just symbolic discounts ( a couple of exceptions though to be fair). Most befuddling are the extreme resort conference though - Swiss alps, Italian alps, etc. These price a lot of us out of attending, a strange thing. Anyway, it's too late... more tomorrow.
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I've also stayed at a much cheaper hotel near a conference. The only time it's affordable to stay at the conference hotel is if I'm sharing a room (and splitting the cost). I was contemplating going with Paul for his last conference, but the airfare to Poland was astronomical - actually we paid a lot less to fly to China in 2006! Go figure!
Posted by: Ruth | November 16, 2010 09:01 AM
I loved Poland! Got to visit once a while ago - jealous of Paul for going. Hope you get go another time. I had no idea how expensive it was to fly there now. Not very excited about flying now, but will have meeting in CA in the spring so I can't avoid it forever...
Posted by: David | November 16, 2010 01:28 PM