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Hotel info
by Jeremy White Aug. 31, 2007

Aug. 31, 2007

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

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Transportation system in Zurich
by martin pilka Aug. 22, 2007

Aug. 22, 2007

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

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Hotel planning
by Jeremy White Aug. 13, 2007

Aug. 13, 2007

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.htm http://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

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