| Replaced_Texan |
11-17-2009 05:51 PM |
Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
(Post 407037)
Yes, well the city is a little obscure and perhaps tending towards the outable, so I thought I would seek info about methods of finding hotels, rather than the hotels themselves.
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Conventionally, there are hundreds of websites that can help you find hotels.
Unconventionally, I have three suggestions:
1. Ask Less.
2. My brother uses Craigslist to find short-stay apartments in Milan, San Francisco and New York. So far, none (of maybe 15 trips over the last eight years) have been duds. He likes apartments better than hotels, because he likes the option of cooking and/or entertaining.
3. couchsurfing.org My brother and another friend who have used it absolutely love it. My brother used it for a trip to Turin in April, and the guy whose apartment he stayed in was exeedingly cool. He was able to show my brother parts of town he would have never found on my own. My other friend spent most of February in Singapore and Thailand couchsurfing and had a blast. There are messageboards on the website, so you can sort of get to know people before you go to their houses. Neal, my friend, uses the boards a lot and has hosted a bunch of people, too. I've met a handful of them, and generally it's a pretty awesome community. |
