Originally Posted by
SkiAdcock
...WARNING: Do NOT pick the weekend of Sept 12th-14th for your AMS Do! The IBC trade show runs from the 11th-16th, and ALL the hotels jack up their rates accordingly....
Don't I know it. In 2001, the attack on 911 came a day before that show and we were trapped in AMS for days without an advance hotel reservation. Even though lots of Americans needed to cancel, the Ren had no mercy on us and the five days before we could get out cost us a bloody fortune.