"J. Steinbachs" wrote: > > Correct. So, if you want to spend a full week, say arriving Sunday, then > you can arrange to check in and pay piles of cash for Sunday night, stay > in the same room and still get the group/meeting rate for the rest of the > nights during the meeting. "Piles of cash" = $340/night for the least > expensive room (city view?) and $400/night for mountain view. According > to meeting organizers, more rooms might be available at group rates > (before the meeting begins) about 2 months prior to the meeting, depending > on room availability. Ah. Are there any less expensive hotels in the area? I think Waikiki beach is cluttered with hotels. > Airfare from Chicago is going for about $975 (nonstop) right now - that > includes the meeting discount on United Airlines. When I checked, a couple weeks ago, airfare from Boston (one stop - in Chicago :-) was $1,015 ($40 to Chicago aint bad, huh?). That was also United. Prices will keep going up though. :-) Jeff -- +------------------------------------+ | | | J.W. Bizzaro | | jeff at bioinformatics.org | | | | THE OPEN COLLABORATORY | | FOR MOLECULAR BIOINFORMATICS | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | | | +------------------------------------+