Re: [78attendees] We'll meet again...

[Mary Barnes <[e-mail]>]

Yes, there is information on that wiki, but as far as travel it pretty much
duplicates what was on the host site as far as reaching Maastricht and the
information as to getting around is focused entirely on the city center, in
particular it notes that having a car can be painful, wherase in hindisght
that would have been of a tremendous help to me. There's also no mention at
all of the MECC. Again, if I were on holiday in Maastricht, which seems to
be the central focus of any write-up, then no problems.

I considered a bike, but that wouldn't have been any safer for me at nite
than walking and there was lots of discussion on the list about not leaving
bikes outside at nite and I don't think carrying a bike into my hotel at
nite would have worked well.

Mary.

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Miquel van Smoorenburg
<[e-mail]>wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 09:56 -0500, Mary Barnes wrote:
> > The one advantage to Anaheim is there are oodles of tourist guide
> > books that one can find that provide all the information ahead of time
> > as to what the situation will be. There were no such guide books that
> > I could find about Maasticht - Lonely Planet for the Netherlands had
> > one very small chapter that didn't get into any of the
> > accessibility/how to get there issues.
>
> http://wikitravel.org/en/Maastricht
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> > One thing that would have helped me tremendously would have been if
> > renting a car had been described as a really good option for getting
> > to Maastricht and convenience in reaching the venue for those of us at
> > hotels in the city.
>
> I had a bike. MECC -> Downtown about 8 minutes.
>
> Mike.
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