XDS2007: hotels, etc

Tiago Vignatti vignatti at c3sl.ufpr.br
Fri Aug 29 15:31:07 PDT 2008


Hi Daniel,

Daniel Stone escreveu:
> I've been searching for a good group hotel for a while, but have been
> unable to find anything even remotely suitable.  Everywhere that
> promised they had excellent availability and yes sir, we can definitely
> take all 30 people, have had from zero to four rooms free.  Mostly
> zero, though.  The only option I have left to recommend is to use sites
> like laterooms.com, lastminute.co.uk, expedia.co.uk and hotels.co.uk to
> try to find rooms near Princes St/Waverley station (central Edinburgh;
> the bus to the zoo leaves from Princes St).  Hopefully you'll all manage
> to coalesce during the evenings and thereabouts.  I'm assured by the zoo
> staff that the pub right across from the zoo is quite good itself, so
> that should be a ludicrously easy option.  In general though, Princes
> St seems to be the main activity centre.

Let me see if I got it correctly: different from the other conferences 
we must book the hotels by our own (specially who's being sponsored by 
foundation)?


Thanks,

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Tiago Vignatti
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