[Air-l] AoIR conference hotels

[Caroline Haythornthwaite]

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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Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign, 
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