XDS2007: hotels, etc

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Hey Daniel,

Could you forward this to those attending:

Is anyone spending the night in London on Monday and taking the train  
up Tuesday?  I'm looking for a hotel Monday in London and was  
wondering if anyone wanted to share.

And Matt, could we get cell contact info for you =)

Thanks,
Jeremy


On Aug 29, 2008, at 08:34, Daniel Stone wrote:

> Hi,
> First of all, sorry for the massively delayed announcements at every
> step of the way: it's been a very hectic few months for all of us, and
> these all co-incided at roughly the same time.  One person would be
> horrifically busy for a while, then when it came to needing someone
> else to do stuff, _they'd_ be horrifically busy for a while, et al.
> Currently it's just me who's horrifically busy. :)
>
> Anyway, as I won't be able to attend XDS myself (unfortunately),
> Matthew Garrett (CCed) will be the on-site organiser de semaine.  If
> you have any problems during the week or so, please let him know, as
> there's not a great deal I can do about it from Helsinki.  In the
> leadup to this, though, please feel free to continue to contact me.
>
> 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.
>
> I also pulled up a bunch of possibly useful stuff from The Guardian:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/aug/12/edinburgh.shortbreaks for
> those who might be staying a little longer
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/aug/06/edinburgh.top10
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/jul/14/edinburgh.readersguide
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/aug/08/festivals.edinburgh
>
> So, in summary, sorry, thanks, and hope you all have a great  
> conference.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
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