--Pui5YDBJbCQuJ1A1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * David A. Black (dblack / wobblini.net) wrote: > Hi -- > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, David A. Black wrote: > > > Hi -- > > > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Matt Lawrence wrote: > > > > > I just called the conference hotel and was told that they are completely > > > booked on Thursday and Friday nights. Any suggestions? > > > > Here's a list of hotels near the conference facility: > > > > http://www.dullesexpo.com/guestinfo/hotelinfo/index.htm > > > > Of those, I was told that the Homestead and Sierra ones are the > > closest. A number of us will have cars, so that we should be able to > > shuttle people around pretty efficiently. > > > > > Also, will there be wireless access at the convention? How about > > > recommendations for transport to and from the airport? > > > > As far as I know there is no wireless. The conference hotel has a free > > airport shuttle; the estimate for taxis is $20 (as per the hotel > > website). > > I should clarify: that's Dulles airport, not BWI. There's also Reagan (aka National) in the area, but you can take the metro to the Dunn-Loring stop, then take a cab from there. There are also a couple of shuttles that run between Dulles and Reagan, and between Dulles and the metro. Here's one that costs $8 one-way, and $14 round-trip: http://www.washfly.com/faqs.htm If anyone else is coming from BWI, I posted some information to the list earlier today, you can read it here: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/113659 Hope this helps... > David > > -- > David A. Black > dblack / wobblini.net -- Paul Duncan <pabs / pablotron.org> pabs in #ruby-lang (OPN IRC) http://www.pablotron.org/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x82C29562 --Pui5YDBJbCQuJ1A1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBVNRizdlT34LClWIRArUjAJ4jWo/I22kdTVxlmZtvQo0fNBBW/wCeJEfR RizU9oWnPgY83HV6mktXTSs bB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Pui5YDBJbCQuJ1A1--