Thomas Kuehne wrote:
> I'd love to come to the Westcoast, but as other have hinted this would
> most likely require somewhere around US$ 2000-3000 for most Europeans.

Would prices be lower if we did it off season?

I just checked with www.expedia.com for a weekend in late March round trip Seattle <=> Frankfurt. Fares range from $518 on up. Car rental, add another $200 - $300 (guessing). Hotels in Astoria, can probably do for $100/night. Seattle hotels are probably higher.

It's a lot of money, no two ways about it.

Walter Bright wrote:
> Thomas Kuehne wrote:
>> I'd love to come to the Westcoast, but as other have hinted this would
>> most likely require somewhere around US$ 2000-3000 for most Europeans.
> 
> Would prices be lower if we did it off season?
> 
> I just checked with www.expedia.com for a weekend in late March round trip Seattle <=> Frankfurt. Fares range from $518 on up. Car rental, add another $200 - $300 (guessing). Hotels in Astoria, can probably do for $100/night. Seattle hotels are probably higher.
> 
> It's a lot of money, no two ways about it.

Let's make the European D Conference 2007, say in October, it can be in any European hub such as Amsterdam, Paris, London.

Ciao

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:41:32 -0800, Walter Bright <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote:

> Thomas Kuehne wrote:
>> I'd love to come to the Westcoast, but as other have hinted this would
>> most likely require somewhere around US$ 2000-3000 for most Europeans.
>
> Would prices be lower if we did it off season?
>
> I just checked with www.expedia.com for a weekend in late March round trip Seattle <=> Frankfurt. Fares range from $518 on up. Car rental, add another $200 - $300 (guessing). Hotels in Astoria, can probably do for $100/night. Seattle hotels are probably higher.
>
> It's a lot of money, no two ways about it.


I think the flights are much cheaper going from here to there... Did you check the other way around?  It seems that it makes a difference even thought it's a round trip either way?  Not sure why.

Hotels are pretty expensive... would almost be better to find a way to camp out.  That's one way to get to know new country.  I always try to find the least expensive route, even if it means a little hardship.  :)

-JJR

Walter Bright wrote:
> Serg Kovrov wrote:
>> Julio César Carrascal Urquijo wrote:
>>> Please, tape the whole event and post it on Google Video for those of us that don't even have hope of attending (As much as we would like it).
>>
>> ++count
>>
>> To record whole event is a great idea indeed! And perhaps beside publishing on google video/youtube it would be nice to have high quality version distributed via bittorrent.
> 
> I'm sure that can be arranged.

That'll be nice. Since presentations are held, perhaps people can turn them into papers for the online D journal?
After the massive migration to D caused by going 1.0 in january (besides D being a kick-ass language to program in) there might be an increased demand for quality papers...

John Reimer wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:41:32 -0800, Walter Bright <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thomas Kuehne wrote:
>>> I'd love to come to the Westcoast, but as other have hinted this would
>>> most likely require somewhere around US$ 2000-3000 for most Europeans.
>>
>> Would prices be lower if we did it off season?
>>
>> I just checked with www.expedia.com for a weekend in late March round trip Seattle <=> Frankfurt. Fares range from $518 on up. Car rental, add another $200 - $300 (guessing). Hotels in Astoria, can probably do for $100/night. Seattle hotels are probably higher.
>>
>> It's a lot of money, no two ways about it.
> 
> 
> I think the flights are much cheaper going from here to there... Did you check the other way around?  It seems that it makes a difference even thought it's a round trip either way?  Not sure why.
> 
> Hotels are pretty expensive... would almost be better to find a way to camp out.  That's one way to get to know new country.  I always try to find the least expensive route, even if it means a little hardship.  :)
> 
> -JJR

Well if I have to spend a few hundred, just in airfare, then that pretty much puts me in a campground someplace too.  Then there's the last mile: transportation.

I'm googling around, but I'm not seeing much in the way of camping that's drivable to downtown. :(

-- 
- EricAnderton at yahoo

Walter Bright wrote:
> Thomas Kuehne wrote:
>> I'd love to come to the Westcoast, but as other have hinted this would
>> most likely require somewhere around US$ 2000-3000 for most Europeans.
> 
> Would prices be lower if we did it off season?
> 
> I just checked with www.expedia.com for a weekend in late March round trip Seattle <=> Frankfurt. Fares range from $518 on up. Car rental, add another $200 - $300 (guessing). Hotels in Astoria, can probably do for $100/night. Seattle hotels are probably higher.
> 
> It's a lot of money, no two ways about it.

I don't suppose one could book flights in the US for a foreign traveler?  Even two round trips at that cost would be cheaper than one booked in Europe, or so it seems.


Sean

John Reimer wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:41:32 -0800, Walter Bright <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thomas Kuehne wrote:
>>> I'd love to come to the Westcoast, but as other have hinted this would
>>> most likely require somewhere around US$ 2000-3000 for most Europeans..
>>
>> Would prices be lower if we did it off season?
>>
>> I just checked with www.expedia.com for a weekend in late March round trip Seattle <=> Frankfurt. Fares range from $518 on up. Car rental, add another $200 - $300 (guessing). Hotels in Astoria, can probably do for $100/night. Seattle hotels are probably higher.
>>
>> It's a lot of money, no two ways about it.
> 
> I think the flights are much cheaper going from here to there... Did you check the other way around?  It seems that it makes a difference even thought it's a round trip either way?  Not sure why.

That's what I was wondering about two round trips.  Just "miss" the legs that you don't need and make sure they don't cancel the ticket altogether for doing so.  Assuming that is actually legal, of course.


Sean

Sean Kelly wrote:
> That's what I was wondering about two round trips.  Just "miss" the legs that you don't need and make sure they don't cancel the ticket altogether for doing so.  Assuming that is actually legal, of course.

I did that once years ago, when a "weekend stay" roundtrip cost less than half. So I bought two roundtrips, and used one leg of each. Crazy.

John Reimer schrieb am 2006-11-17:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:19:56 -0800, Thomas Kuehne <thomas-dloop@kuehne.cn> wrote:

>> Co-hosting somewhere in Europe should enable quite few more to take part in this gathering. Yes renting a second place and providing the video infrastructure is no replacement for a person-to-person meeting.

> An interesting idea.  By "Co-hosting" do you mean a realtime video-conference of sorts? Or do you just mean just hosting another conference in Europe on another occasion?

Realtime.

Thomas

Walter Bright schrieb am 2006-11-17:
> Thomas Kuehne wrote:
>> I'd love to come to the Westcoast, but as other have hinted this would most likely require somewhere around US$ 2000-3000 for most Europeans.
>
> Would prices be lower if we did it off season?

Yes, ca. 1/2-2/3 of the season prices.

Thomas