Hi Folks,
Say, I thought I'd let you know that we've now booked about 20 people
from CodeWeavers into the Rex Hotel:
http://www.zuerich-hotels.ch/html/index.php?id=21&no_cache=1&L=1
The say they have more rooms at the rate they quoted me (120 CHF),
so others might want to investigate.
I have no reason to think that the Rex is particularly bad or nice;
There were plenty of other places in town, some that looked nicer;
the Rex has the main quality of having replied to my email <grin>.
There are some hostels in town that are much less, and a few less
expensive hotels around, as well as a number of other, probably
nicer hotels. The one thing I found was that there was nothing
but quite expensive (and full) hotels near the Google offices,
so a 15 minute tram ride appears to be a must no matter where you stay.
At any rate, I'm looking forward to seeing you all; I'll see if we can't
find a bar near the Rex we can propose as a meeting place for Friday night...
Cheers,
Jeremy
Hello,
we tried to find out how to get from hotel Rex to conference and found this:
http://www.gis.zh.ch/zvv/
After you enter addresses, you get attached screenshot. Now, I have no idea
what does it actually mean. These questions come to my mind:
* Is is a bus, train, or something else?
* What is the number of it? I.e. bus number X
* What time does it go?
It seems I have no clue about Zurich transportation system. Anybody can help?
Thanks,
Martin
Hi folks,
So, I've spent some time on the Hotel page that Mike Hearn has outlined:
http://www.booking.com/searchresults.html?from_as=1;city=-2554935&ssne=Z%C3…
These are also interesting:
http://directrooms.com/switzerland/maps/zurich-city-centre-maps.htmhttp://en.venere.com/hotels_zurich/
...and I realize that I'm stumped.
I would like to find a hotel that has the following qualities:
1) Is moderately priced, so everyone is willing to stay there.
2) Has Internet access
3) Is fairly close to Google's office
4) Has a bar that we can encourage everyone to gather
at on Friday.
As far as I can tell, we're not going to get all of those things.
Specifically, price collides badly with being close to the
meeting site, at least as far as I can tell.
As a guideline, I was trying to get the price down below an
average of 150 CHF per night or so (1 CHF ~= .6 Euros, ~= .8 USD).
I was hoping that some native, or even just a native German speaker
would be willing to help out. I'm willing to make phone calls and
to try to negotiate block rates, if someone would make a list of
likely hotels to try.
The things I can't figure out from my desk here in the US are as follows:
1. Is it a certainty that there are no cheap hotels in walking distance
to the Google office? I *think* so, but can't be sure.
2. I can find nice-ish hotels at a reasonable rate from here;
but I can't tell how far they are from the Google campus in transit time.
The nice address to address feature of the ZVV here:
http://www.vbz.ch/vbz_opencms/opencms/vbz/english/ZVVtimetable/
quickly overcomes my inept German abilities when I try to do
address to address searches.
3. How to pick between hotels? I can find tons of moderately priced,
reasonably rated hotels, with internet even, using the web tools I have.
But I don't know Zurich, and have no clue if the Neufeld is a dump,
or if Goldenes Schwert has rats :-/.
Has anyone else looked into this and come to any conclusions?
Any native Zurichian or German speaker willing to work with me on this project?
Cheers,
Jeremy
