August Gathering / Kilts Night

[Raphael]

IrishBLE just booked Coast Vancouver Airport Hotel (1041 Sw Marine Drive Vancouver, BC) through pricepoint.com for $50US/night.

[Colin]

IrishBLE just booked Coast Vancouver Airport Hotel (1041 Sw Marine Drive Vancouver, BC) through pricepoint.com for $50US/night.

Good choice, there should be a shuttle or taxi stand near by to get into downtown fairly easily. Besides I don't think Bear's place is too far from there.

[Raphael]

May be 15 minutes walk?

[Mr. Kilt]

Thanks for the info, guys. I'll have a look into that hotel.

[bear]

There's a pub on the ground floor and an express bus nearby that gets you downtown in 20 - 25 minutes.

[Mr. Kilt]

Alrighty! I just made my reservations at that hotel for the 4th, 5th, and 6th. Now all I have to do is manage to get 4 days off from work, but that shouldn't be too much of an issue.

Aside from the evening activities on Friday the 5th, is there anything planned for the daytime?

Oh...we're driving out, so we can shuttle a few people from that hotel to the events if need be.

[Hamish]

Whilst on the topic of hotel locations and ease of transportation during 'The Gathering':

Dave W and I are booked into:

Days Inn - Vancouver Metro
2075 Kingsway/Victoria Drive,
V5N 2T2

from July 31st to August 13th

The hotel claims that it is 10 minutes from Downtown Vancouver and is within walking distance of Skytrain - but they don't name a 'station'!

Can any of you 'locals' confirm that Skytrain is the best way to travel around to all 'The Gathering' events being planned?

The original Calendar of Events, as featured on Bear's website, gives the impression that we'll not have much time to ourselves during those two weeks, so we believe that the Skytrain will be adequate for our needs - are we correct?

Any comments or advice would be much appreciated. This is going to be an expensive two weeks and we wouldn't want to make matters worse by having to take taxis too frequently!!