[ILL-L] ALA Hotel room needed

[Denise L Montgomery]

I have a suggestion for you and anyone else who is in a similar 
situation at this late date, if you can't find a roommate: rather than 
paying rip-off prices at the few hotels remaining downtown--most of 
which are running $200-$400 per night--think about renting a car and 
staying at one of the budget motels that were listed as still available 
in College PArk, MD (hom of the Univ. of MD) You'll need the car if you 
have any early morning meetings on the weekend, since Metro doesn't 
begin running till 8 AM on weekends,  otherwise the Green line does run 
out to College Park. But some of the cheaper chains were listed as of a 
few minutes ago as having rooms available there for $70-$88 from 
Thursday through Monday nights when I searched Expedia.

As for getting to the Convention Center via Metro, you will have to 
change stations once, but it's no big deal to get there, and it's about 
a half hour trip. There's also a good-sized parking garage in College 
Park that is free on weekends.

I know all this about College Park because  I have traveled there 
frequently over the past 15 years.

                           Denise Montgomery
                           Valdosta State University Library
                                         

Nancy Alder wrote:


>
> Colleagues:
>
>I find I can attend ALA this month after all but am, alas, without
>accommodations.  Is there anyone [female,of course] out there that has a
>hotel room to share? Please help if you can.  Thanks.
>
>Nancy
>
>
>Nancy Alder
>Document Delivery Services Manager
>3421 HBLL Interlibrary Loan
>Brigham Young University
>Provo, UT  84602-6881
> 
>voice:  801 422-3624
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>email:  nancy_alder at byu.edu
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