Monica Murero and I have been comparing notes, and the 50 gbp rate only comes up for Sunday (19th)onwards. So you can book in pieces to see what works. /Caroline ------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caroline Haythornthwaite" <haythorn@uiuc.edu> To: "Association of Internet Researchers" <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [Air-l] AoIR conference hotels
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
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