>Hi, Hi! Thanks for the questions! Sometimes it is not easy to see what is clear and what is not to others when you are working closely on things. >I'm looking at the venue pages for the Montreal bid and the prices for >accommodation are perhaps not clear enough > >>From https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Bids/Montreal/Venues/McGill: > >Many of them seem to cost the same for a single or a double room, is >that correct? I assume this means that the price is per room >regardless of how many people are there, and so it would be half the >price per person per room if we use double. Please say if this is >correct. For McGill, when it is the same price for a single room and a double room, the price is indeed per room and not per bed. It seems weird (double = more beds), but meh, that's how it is. Double rooms always include two beds. This means that if we use double rooms, we can halve the price per person. >If that's the case, converting to USD (assuming the prices are in >CAD), the prices per person per room would be: >La Citadelle: 57 USD >Carrefour Sherbrooke: 52 USD >New Residence Hall: 43 USD >Royal Victoria College: 31 USD (double), 27 USD (triple) Yes, all prices are in CAD. We did not convert it in other currencies because the magic of monetary markets can make prices fluctuate a lot on short periods. Royal Victoria College does seem to be the cheapest solution. One solution you have not mentionned is Bishop Mountain Hall, with similar prices but for single rooms (and no wifi). >The first three seem quite high for the prices we are used to paying >during DebConf, while the last one is more similar but still high >(taking into account that it doesn't include food). Do you know how >many beds we can get on each of these? We are still waiting more detailed answers on this. Please note that (as stated on the wiki) all prices listed are regular ones. I'm pretty sure that if we rent 150 double rooms we can get lower prices. >For https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Bids/Montreal/Venues/UQAM, >looking at the university residence page, it seems to imply that each >bed is between 62 USD and 44 USD, depending on how many other people >share the appartment... Is that correct? These prices seem again >quite high, am I getting this wrong? Again, the prices are the regular ones. Maybe we can get group prices. >Normally, we try hard to aim to have a price of per person per night >of 20 to 30 USD. And I don't see that being possible with the cited >lodgings... Am I missing something? If so, please add it to the page >and clarify. Sadly, I don't think we can get cheaper prices than McGill's anywhere in Montreal. We are still looking, but I would be really surprised if we did. Notice that even considering regular prices we can reach the 30USD expections at Mcgill's Royal Victoria College residence, which is 74,75 CAD (double) and 97,75 CAD (triple). >The Concordia Venue seems very much not-done. Do you still think we >should consider it? Would we get better rates there? Indeed, we're working on this and should have news very soon. Bests, NB: I was not yet on the list when the first email was sent. Sorry if this email gets placed in a new thread... -- Louis-Philippe Véronneau (aka pollo) on behalf of Montreal's bid team
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