I’ve just booked flight and hotel for GUADEC 2017, which will be held in Manchester. André suggested that I should decide this time. We’ll be staying a wheelchair accessible (the room is slightly bigger :P) room with Easyhotel. It’s 184 GBP for 5 nights and NOT close to the venue (but not bad via public transport). Easyhotel works like a budget airline. You’ll have to pay more for WiFi, cleaning, breakfast, a remote, etc. I ignored all of these essential things which means André has to do without that as well. The paid WiFi might even be iffy, so rather use my mobile data, plus per half June that shouldn’t cost anything extra thanks to new EU regulations. Before GUADEC I might switch to another mobile phone company to get 4-5GB/month for 18 EUR/month. André will probably want to work remotely. Let’s see closer to the date what’s a good solution (share my data?).
Flight wise for me Easyjet is cheapest (70 EUR) and it’s the fastest method. Funny to combine Easyjet with Easyhotel. I usually use a combination of Google flights and Skyscanner to see the cheapest options. However, rome2rio works as well. The latter will also check alternative methods to get to Manchester, e.g. via Liverpool and so on. For Skyscanner, somehow the Dutch version often gives me cheaper options than Skyscanner in other languages. Google flights usually is much more expensive. I only use Google flights to determine the cheapest days, then switch to Skyscanner to get the lowest price.