SWW 2007

Hello All,

OK I know it's early (not really) but there's no hotel at the actual
convention site of SWW so I guess I would like to get a consensus of which
hotel you plan on staying.
I would hate to be the only one at the XYZ hotel when everybody else is
staying at the ABC hotel.
The afore mentioned hotels they are only for the purpose of discussion and
are in fact fictional hotels.
I guess I just want to be with all the other gee.... UH users!

Thanks,
Muggs

 

Muggs,

Seems to be plenty of accomadations nearby.

 

Hey TOP,

Yes there are many, but I was wondering if there is one that the majority is
favoring over another.

Muggs

 

I probably won't be going, but it's being held in the same hotel where they
held the one in 2000. It's on the edge of the French Quarter and there are a
lot of nice little hotels within walking distance that are (or were in 2000)
a lot less expensive and much more charming. I can't remember the name of
the one I stayed at, but there are any number of them. As an example, I
found the Royal St. Charles which is about 5 blocks further away than the
Hilton and is only $129 a night instead of $199.

Actually, now that I look at the site, it looks like it will be held in the
Convention Center, not in the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. If that is true,
then it puts it about a half a mile further from the nice little hotels.
Still not too far to walk, so I would go for one of the little hotels.

On the other hand, I don't remember bumping into anyone else in my small
hotel who was going to SWW, so you might be a lot happier in one of the
featured hotels, unless you work it out ahead of time with some of your
newsgroup buddies..

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"

 

When they started New Orleans, they naturally enough put it on land that
didn't flood too easily. I doubt that the French Quarter and the area around
it where the hotels are sustained much damage. It might even be nicer next
year if there aren't quite so many tourists around as there were in 2000.
Not that I objected that much to having a drink or two in the bar while we
waited for a table to open up.

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"

 

If you stay anywhere near the conference center, you won't know that
anything had occurred with the exception of the odd malfunctioning
signal light.

If you go, make it a point to ride out to New Orleans east, or
Gentilly, or the vaulted "Lower 9th Ward". You have never and will
never see anything like this again in a developed country. Words and
pictures simply cannot convey the magnitude of what you will see.
Don't think that because the French Quarter survived more or less
intact that everything is okay. It's not and won't be for a long,
long time.

You are correct, the tourists are few and far between. So getting in
bars, restaurants and other popular venues is much easier. Parking is
much less difficult as well.

Please be very mindful when you come. The National Guard was brought
in a couple of months ago because the street crime had gotten out of
hand. They are supposed to leave in December. Couple this with the
cessation of FEMA financial supplements for the evacuees will create
an interesting situation regarding the ability of these individuals to
"support" themselves.

Cheers,

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Chris

 

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?