[tei-council] hotels for April meeting

[Mylonas, Elli]

OK,   so since Paul is all set with his B&B, that's 7 people/rooms. I'll
harass the hotels once again today to get last set of prices -elli


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 7:01 AM, James Cummings
<James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

>
> If I'm counting correctly and you are housing Gabby and Hugh, and
> Syd is also local then those needing hotels are:
>
> JamesC, BrettB, KevinH, MartinH, PaulS, RebeccaW, SebastianR, and
> LouB
>
> which totals 8 people.
>
> Personally, I'm not too bothered about which hotel but would
> certainly prefer to be where everyone else is. ;-)
>
> I've not booked my flight yet but was intending to come in on the
> Tuesday if you need me to speak or the Wednesday otherwise.
>
> -James
>
>
>
> On 14/02/13 20:09, Mylonas, Elli wrote:
> > Hi all, I'm looking into hotels, and have the following information, also
> > an important question:
> >
> > How many will be attending and needing a hotel room?  I may be able to do
> > something with a block of 10 or more.
> >
> > I am looking at hotels in downtown Providence, easy walking distance to
> > Brown (uphill towards Brown, downhill back). These are also within
> walking
> > distance of restaurants and pubs. I am excluding paid wifi unless the
> total
> > cost is advantageous. Right now, the best I've got is $139/night. All
> > downtown hotels offer valet parking for @$28/day. What this means is they
> > don't have adjacent parking, and they drive your car to some lot they all
> > use.
> >
> > There is also the Wyndham Garden, on the other side of Brown. It is also
> > within walking distance of Brown, but through a mediocre neighborhood and
> > not a great walk home at night. It's sort of near a street of
> restaurants,
> > but again, the walk isn't great - probably fine for a group. It's right
> on
> > a highway ramp, and has free parking. The rooms on hotels.com are under
> > $100, also has free wireless.  They do offer a shuttle (for a small
> charge,
> > they say). Optimized for people with cars (Paul!).
> >
> > I may be able to get some better prices downtown, but right now, the
> > Wyndham has the others beat, at least on hotels.com.
> >
> > Syd and I will have cars, and I am housing Gabby and Hugh. --elli
> >
>
>
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