list inexpensive hotels and hostels for conferences

Henry Mensch henry at garp.mit.edu
Mon Jul 9 12:54:19 AEST 1990


maa at ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark A Allyn) wrote: 
->I would like to propose to Usenix that they also list the YMCA's,
->American Youth Hotels, and the like as well. In addition, since almost
->all of the conferences have people from the local universities involved,
->why not make arrangements to allow attendees to use the univiersity
->dormatories. This should be particularly easy for those conferences
->happening during the summer months when school is not in session and the
->dormatories are not in use. 

ah, but there's the rub: the dormitories often *are* in use by the
universities.  you see, many universities run conference programs over
the summer.

if you're so concerned about costs, then haul your butt to the library
and look up the AYH hostels, etc.  the _let's go_ series is a good
place to start.

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