Re: [Fwd: Re: [ADMIN] PG Con]

On Apr 2, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Michael Alan Brewer wrote:
>> Last year, I stayed on campus (in an "apartment-style" room). I
>> enjoyed the location and the campus staff was a pleasure to deal
>> with;
>> the only caveat I can recall was that you needed to bring your own
>> Ethernet cable, as only wired access was available.
>>
>> Also, if you get the chance, try to take at least a day (either
>> before
>> or after the convention) to do some sight-seeing; the tour we
>> took of
>> the government buildings was quite neat (and the art gallery is quite
>> amazing as well).
>
> I agree with these recommendations. However, it seems the rooms are
> very
> popular in the day(s) after the conference - I tried to get two
> extending two days past the end of the conference a couple of weeks
> back, and they were filled up and couldn't get any. They could at that
> time only get the dorm style rooms (shared bathrooms).
>
> They did, however, say that there might be more rooms made available
> closer to the conference, but could at that time make no guarantees.

The rooms are booked heavily AFTER PGCon because of a very
poplar marathon which occurs near the U of O.

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