Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!xylogics!world!bzs From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: list inexpensive hotels and hostels for conferences Message-ID: Date: 9 Jul 90 00:18:07 GMT References: <1501@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> <3830@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Distribution: na Organization: The World Lines: 35 In-Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.Com's message of 8 Jul 90 17:28:54 GMT From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) >At the Sun User Group in Miami Beach a coupla Decembers ago, quite a >few conferees were in another hotel a block or so away. Except that >there weren't really blocks involved, just a lovely moonlight or early >morning hike down the beach that nobody minded at all. We were never >kicked out of anything, including the conference hotel's nifty >pool/grotto that was far nicer than our hotel's pool. Several SUG Board of Directors and the SUG Executive Director were thrown out of the Fountainbleu's "Poodle Room" (I think that's the name of their fancy-schmancy hot-pink and black -1 star restaurant) during that conference. I was among them, we were really trying to do some planning (it was the first night.) They wanted to recycle the table faster and got exceedingly rude after an exceedingly short time (like, the rude jerk maitre'd (tm) almost apologized when he realized that we really weren't quite done with dessert and coffee, but decided to stick to his guns and be rude anyhow.) I told him that he was an asshole (that was the term I remember using), but it didn't seem to come as any surprise to him. Never again. Yeah, the walk on the beach was nice (meaning: the F-bleu somehow couldn't get the board into the main hotel...so the board has nothing to recommend if they ever wanted us to go there again, which isn't likely anyhow.) -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | {xylogics,uunet}!world!bzs | bzs@world.std.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD