Re: hotel in London?

Gregg, other fellow travelers

I have looked at the (beginning of) the hotel list, and filtered by price (my hotel limit in the UK is £150) and reviews, and I have stopped after finding four:


http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g186338-d279512-Reviews-Comfort_Inn_Buckingham_Palace_Road-London_England.html
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g186338-d279678-Reviews-Melbourne_House_Hotel-London_England.html
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g186338-d193153-Reviews-BEST_WESTERN_Corona-London_England.html
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g186338-d254557-Reviews-Blades_Hotel-London_England.html

Any preferences among those? Let us try to stay at the same place...

Ivan

> On 08 Jan 2015, at 15:51 , Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 08 Jan 2015, at 15:21 , Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 8 January 2015 at 15:08, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
>>>> Our meeting will
>>>> be in the one at 123 Buckingham Palace Road, which is indeed very
>>>> close to Victoria station.
>>>> 
>>>> I have put everything that I know into a draft meeting page at
>>>> https://www.w3.org/2013/csvw/wiki/F2F_Agenda_2015-02
>>>> 
>>>> It is missing some details, most notably a substantive agenda.
>>>> 
>>>> Ivan, what should we do for a meeting attendance registration page?
>>> 
>>> Up to us. I mean: there is no formal requirement for any registration on the W3C site; it mostly depends on what Google requires us to do to ensure entrance to the building.
>> 
>> I think the main need is our own, rather than Google's: to know who is
>> committed to attend, esp. amongst editors, will help us plan our time
>> and topics.
>> 
>> There are two logistics-related reasons to have a registration form.
>> Most importantly, the room books (12 ppl and 8 ppl) are on the small
>> side. If we are going to be over-subscribed I'll have to scrabble
>> around ASAP to negotiate a bigger room, or say no to people if there
>> isn't room. Secondarily, having a list of attendee names means I can
>> pre-register attendees with Google's reception/badge system. That
>> won't be a huge time saver but is probably worth doing. If it is easy
>> to have a W3C form for attendees to confirm plans to attend, that
>> would be great. If not, an attendee list (maybe linking urls for "I'll
>> be there" emails to this list) in the Wiki would probably be equally
>> useful.
>> 
> 
> O.k. And I think if we simply set up a list of participants on the wiki page, and we ask people to add themselves, should be enough. Or do we need more than that?
> 
> Ivan
> 
>> The biggest hassle is that Google only has two floors in a larger
>> shared building, and the building has its own reception, badge system
>> etc. I hope to have a colleague to help with ferrying people up and
>> down through badged gates and lifts, and will investigate whether
>> having a pre-prepared list of attendees helps anything.
>> 
>> Regarding hotels, I've added a fairly generic Trip Advisor link to
>> https://www.w3.org/2013/csvw/wiki/F2F_Agenda_2015-02#Logistics_and_Hotels
>> 
>> Dan
> 
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