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Suggestions for future EF locations
Fairlight:
It's pretty tough to organise an event the scale of EF in a different country from where the majority of the staff resides. Also, the majority of the guests come from Germany.
The last time EF took a chance with that was EF9, and it ended rather disasterously, with attendance numbers dropping by a lot, and a ton of problems with the venue and coordination issues.
Sirana J. Helena:
Hiho,
I did some research via Internet (superficially of course) and it's really hard to find something which fits.
In my youth I had the possibility of visiting a few hotels myself as a tourist and I did find some nice hotels, for example the Quality Inn Hotels (which are part of Choice Hotels). First I wanted suggest these until I found out how small they are. And so it was with many other hotels, too.
My mother, whose job it is to organize conferences and who visited EF twice, suggested the Globana Trade Center Leipzig/Halle or Globana Airport Hotel but this was to small either, because it's for business conventions where nobody expects the whish of having all participants in just one hotel.
I want to discuss this topic with her again next week end and maybe she has another idea, but after hours of searching with google I am not that optimistic.
Still I might have an idea. After the EF 16 which was an example for a con in a business orientated hotel it's easier to say what a location should have. So maybe it is possible to ask Maritim as a company which one of their hotels would fit more. Or you talk to other companys like Dorint. I already had good experience with them, too.
Also it would be possible to look for official conference hotels and stuff. Of course, they are business orientated, too, much more than ****-hotels. But they also expect events with lots of people who are travelling there from all other the world and probably need a place to stay which is near by.
Loewi:
--- Quote from: Sirana J. Helena on 09.09.2010, 13:04:56 ---Hiho,
I did some research via Internet (superficially of course) and it's really hard to find something which fits.
In my youth I had the possibility of visiting a few hotels myself as a tourist and I did find some nice hotels, for example the Quality Inn Hotels (which are part of Choice Hotels). First I wanted suggest these until I found out how small they are. And so it was with many other hotels, too.
My mother, whose job it is to organize conferences and who visited EF twice, suggested the Globana Trade Center Leipzig/Halle or Globana Airport Hotel but this was to small either, because it's for business conventions where nobody expects the whish of having all participants in just one hotel.
I want to discuss this topic with her again next week end and maybe she has another idea, but after hours of searching with google I am not that optimistic.
Still I might have an idea. After the EF 16 which was an example for a con in a business orientated hotel it's easier to say what a location should have. So maybe it is possible to ask Maritim as a company which one of their hotels would fit more. Or you talk to other companys like Dorint. I already had good experience with them, too.
Also it would be possible to look for official conference hotels and stuff. Of course, they are business orientated, too, much more than ****-hotels. But they also expect events with lots of people who are travelling there from all other the world and probably need a place to stay which is near by.
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We've done exactly that and found the maritim.
We didn't just take the first offer we got, we always do alot of research and believe us or not, the maritim was and still is the best and one of the very few locations fitting to us for now.
MOW:
--- Quote from: Sirana J. Helena on 09.09.2010, 13:04:56 ---In my youth I had ...
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That coming from you just made me feel really, really old.
Sirana J. Helena:
Hrhr..
No need. Just the advantage of a great mother who does her job well enough to get little presents like musical tickets and place in hotel rooms. :D
Maybe late childhood fits more.
..ok, maybe this didn't help..
@Loewi: I surely won't affirm you didn't search enough. As I said, my research was just on the surface, a few hours of google. I suppose it were much more you did, with many telephone calls and mails.
I still heard very different things about Maritim Hotels, so maybe there might be another possibility, especially now, when you know what surrounding conditions EF needs. Or I'd better say the participants.
I wasn't at EF 16 but I read many comments about the con and nearly everything negative I read was about the hotel. Can't remember anyone who didn't say you (Orga) did really great and who wouldn't regard your hard work.
Many of those problems existed because the hotel is the business hotel, just like any other possibility would be, so I am not saying, there are many possibilities out there which fullfill all our dreams. Still I'm think it's worth looking for something else (although I don't think there will be many chances for a lower confee or something nearly impossible like this).
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