[JONAT-chat] Accomodation

Fazal Cader jonat-chat@autox.team.net
Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:11:28 +1000


True, Stephen. The total package/ambience is what they are striving for, I
guess. We, too, have reasonable motels from A$60 but they are usually at a
not-so-nice place.
Still, my plan was to stay in nicer places where we were stopping for a day
or so and do basic over-nighters for the rest.

Fazal

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Clark" <stephen_clark@transcanada.com>
To: <jonat-chat@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 11:49 PM
Subject: RE: [JONAT-chat] Accomodation


> I can't speak for other geographies but I can tell you that a fair
> amount of work has gone into doing just what you suggest....I don't
> think there are many hotels that meet the clean and dry criteria that
> are in somewhat of a pleasant location that come much cheaper...just a
> sign of the times....but remember, if you came to came to Canada, you
> get about 35% off just with the exchange rate!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jonat-chat-admin@autox.team.net
> [mailto:jonat-chat-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Fazal Cader
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 7:07 AM
> To: JONAT List
> Subject: [JONAT-chat] Accomodation
>
>
> At this point I'm moved to comment that after all the negativity and
> carping about costs of participating in JONAT from certain quarters,
> every choice of accommodation that I have seen so far (for the route LA
> to Vancouver, at
> least) has been well over US$100 a night.
> Eg, the choice at SLO for one night b/n $135-$185 (to me) is crazy and
> I'm sure it gives a lot of people second thoughts of participating. I
> thought the requirement was somewhere clean and dry to sleep in before
> driving off the next day? I've been 'going with the flow' so far and I
> guess I'll have to stick with it as I do not know the geography of the
> towns well enough to modify.
>
> Fazal Cader
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