> Cheaper, yes. Easier?
>
> Sure, a 5-hour flight to Paris sure beats a 12-hour flight to New York
> plus a 4 hour flight to
> Minneapolis, but you end up in Paris, and if the conference hotel is
> too expensive for your
> corporate budget (it usually is for mine), you have to go really far
> away to find a hotel that
> fits the budget and is not a fleabag. OTOH any city in the US except
> the really huge ones
> (NY or LA) you can find perfectly good hotels that feature breakfast,
> Internet and a spacious
> room for way lower than the Hilton rates, and not at all far from the
> conference. In Anaheim
> I found a hotel at half price at 10 minutes walk time from the Hilton.
> And maybe it's just me,
> but with US hotels, it's far easier to tell the fleabags from the
> acceptable hotels than in
> Europe.
>
> Asia is even tougher. Flying to Taipei will take me to Paris and Hong
> Kong. And I have no
> idea how to tell a good hotel from a bad one. I'll have to trust the
> travel agent.
...or TripAdvisor.
People from other parts of the world probably have the same problem when
travelling to US, but with a little bit of research effort I think it's pretty
easy to get a picture of the hotel, how far it is from the meeting etc.
Regards,
Christer
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