>I've never stayed in a conference hotel (except for GLGDW because it was a reasonable price)
IMO ... If you don't stay at the conference hotel you miss out on a lot of the extra curricular activities that go on in the hotel bar and lounge late into the evening .. and morning!! You learn just as much by sitting around with a group of people just chatting about our work.
Cathy
Cathy Pountney, Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP Memorial Business Systems, Inc. (www.mbs-intl.com)
