A follow up on the issue of hotels off campus at AoIR ... I spent a productive evening via the web booking a place in Brighton. There are discount sites from many places of course, but I actually settled on advance payment for the Hilton. There are 2 Hiltons, and both have advance rates of 50 UK Pounds/night, but you have to book in advance and pay all of it in advance -- deals are available from the Hilton site. I believe you have to do this 21 days in advance. (start at http://www.hilton.co.uk/SiteHomePage) This is much lower than the Thistle Hotel. But, there is also a list of "apprived hotels on the University of Sussex site (tricky to find!) for more options http://www.sussex.ac.uk/press_office/location/hotels/ There it also says you can ask to make a University of Sussex rate booking depending on availability -- they look to be 10% or so cheaper on their rate. So, I have booked at the Hilton Brighton Metropole (details below) -- I've no idea how to get to the university, but it looks like bus/taxi distance on the maps. If anyone else is in that region, please contact me and we can share taxis. /Caroline PS. Please order up sun for my time on the beach :-) Hilton Brighton Metropole Kings Road, East Sussex Brighton, United Kingdom BN1 2FU Phone: 44-1273-775432 Fax: 44-1273-207764 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn@uiuc.edu) Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL, 61820 phone: 217-244-7453 fax: 217-244-3302 www.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn