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gianfranco 
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Please use this thread to ask or exchange information and tips regarding accommodation arrangements, hotels, prices, bookings, B&B, to organize shared accommodations, etc...
Gianfranco
ProZ.com Team
The event page: http://www.proz.com/powwow/567
| | | | gianfranco
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TOPIC STARTER | Some accommodations... | Jul 30, 2004 |
I'm phoning around Oxford to find some suitable accommodations to post here...
COLLEGES
All colleges are full with students (it is term time) and offer no accommodation to guests on the dates of our event.
FIVE MILE VIEW GUEST HOUSE Contact: Karen Marter Address: 528 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 8EG Tel: (01865) 558747 Fax: (01865) 558747 Email: [email protected] Location: about 15 mins walking distance from the college. Visit: Not yet visited. No guarantee on quality or look. Any update will be posted here Availability: 1 single at £60 per night 4 doubles at £50 (for 1 person) and £60 (for 2 persons) Visited: Not yet (no report available yet on decor or look) Page updated: 5 Aug/
COLLEGE GUEST HOUSE
Contact: Mrs K Pal
Address: 103 - 105 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HL
Tel: (01865) 552579
Fax: (01865) 311244
Location: round the corner, 1-2 minutes walking distance from the College!!!
Visit: Not yet visited.
No guarantee on quality or look.
Any update will be posted here
Availability:
4 doubles, en suite, at £70
2 family room (3 beds), en suite, £80
4 single, no en suite bathroom, £40
Page updated: 5 Aug/
BROWN'S GUEST HOUSE Contact: George and Mary McHugh Address: 281 Iffley Road, Oxford, OX4 4AQ Tel: (01865) 246822 Fax: (01865) 246822 Email: [email protected] Website: www.brownsguesthouse.co.uk Location: about 30-35 mins walking distance from the College, taxi necessary unless you are keen to trek across Oxford center (which is not unpleasant anyway...) Visit: Not yet visited. No guarantee on quality or look. Any update will be posted here Availability: 4 single at £35 per night (bathroom is shared for each two single rooms) 4 doubles or twins at £70 Page updated: 5 Aug/
NOTE:
When contacting these Hotels / B&B / Guest houses, mention my surname (Manca), as the rooms are pre-booked under this name for a limited period of time
None of the rooms has been firmly booked. It must be done by you individually
We will not make reservations on your behalf
Don't expect to find them free for long... The sooner you book and the more likely you are to have a room
If you take any of these rooms let me know and I will update their record above
If they fill up their availability, let me know, and I will take the name off this page
I'll try to visit all of them as soon as possible and post my impressions, a quick report on decor and general look
Gianfranco
ProZ.com Team
| | | | Dr Andrew Read
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| A website tip for accommodation | Jul 30, 2004 |
An excellent UK website for reasonably priced guest house and B&B accommodation is www.smoothhound.co.uk
You simply look up the details and contact the places directly by email or phone. Bear in mind that any places that have been awarded stars or diamonds or points or whatever by the AA, the RAC or the ETB (English Tourist Board) have been independently checked, and so you may be assured of bet... See more An excellent UK website for reasonably priced guest house and B&B accommodation is www.smoothhound.co.uk
You simply look up the details and contact the places directly by email or phone. Bear in mind that any places that have been awarded stars or diamonds or points or whatever by the AA, the RAC or the ETB (English Tourist Board) have been independently checked, and so you may be assured of better quality. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Looking for Accommodation | Jul 30, 2004 |
Hi, I'll be going (hopefully) and would like any info on "cheap" accomodation over there... Could something be booked at the same place for several of us so that we don't find ourselves lost in the middle of the ... night(?) after working hard all day long?!!! I mean it would be nice to have breakfast together, walk together to the place, etc.
If there are 250 of us and some 150 or more may need accomodation, I think a... See more Hi, I'll be going (hopefully) and would like any info on "cheap" accomodation over there... Could something be booked at the same place for several of us so that we don't find ourselves lost in the middle of the ... night(?) after working hard all day long?!!! I mean it would be nice to have breakfast together, walk together to the place, etc.
If there are 250 of us and some 150 or more may need accomodation, I think a group solution should be found... Also, we could get a good price if we are a group.
An option to register with accommodation included would be great!
Will register as soon as I get my new Visa card, I lost it a few days ago:-(
A great idea anyway!
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gianfranco
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TOPIC STARTER | Accomodation group arrangement | Jul 30, 2004 |
Patricia Posadas wrote:
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If there are 250 of us and some 150 or more may need accomodation, I think a group solution should be found... Also, we could get a good price if we are a group.
An option to register with accommodation included would be great!
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Patricia,
I'll try to contact, and visit, a number of places to list and recommend, but ProZ.com is not able to offer an on-line booking service for accomodations to the participants.
It may be possible that I manage to close some kind of arrangement or reservation for a number of rooms in convenient hotels and B&B, for the reason that you have described (stay together with a group of colleagues, reach the Conference together, go back together in the evenings, perhaps share a taxi, etc.)
I will post any news on this thread, as soon as possible.
Gianfranco
| | | | Dr Andrew Read
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| Accommodation booking | Jul 30, 2004 |
Note to Gianfranco and to Patricia:
This page gives contact details for the city's own accommodation booking service. They may be able to make some group booking arrangements and provide a contact that delegates could get in touch with f... See more Note to Gianfranco and to Patricia:
This page gives contact details for the city's own accommodation booking service. They may be able to make some group booking arrangements and provide a contact that delegates could get in touch with for confirming their bookings:
http://www.oxford.gov.uk/oxford/tourism.nsf/leadpages/Accommodation?OpenDocument&Start=1&Count=99&Expand=1 ▲ Collapse
| | | | gianfranco
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TOPIC STARTER | I'll contact them | Jul 30, 2004 |
Andrew
thank you very much, I will contact them and check if they can reserve some rooms for out group.
There is still plenty of time, and we may manage to take some rooms (about 25-30) in a single place, for the participant's convenience, and then we monitor how fast they are taken and decide what to do next...
Gianfranco
| | | | | What about the colleges? | Aug 1, 2004 |
If the conference is out of term time the colleges also rent out their rooms, don't they? Is there any way to arrange agroup deal via the colleges themselves?
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gianfranco
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TOPIC STARTER | Colleges are full with students | Aug 1, 2004 |
Unfortunately on that date the colleges are full of student.
During the summer and in the gaps between terms we could have found accomodations in the colleges.
Gianfranco
| | | | Rod Darby (X)
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Gillian Noameshie wrote:
If the conference is out of term time the colleges also rent out their rooms, don't they? Is there any way to arrange agroup deal via the colleges themselves?
You're not exactly wrong, but you'll have to do it yourself. That weekend is the end of 8th week, i.e. the end of traditional term, but things have changed in Oxford since my day (OK: 1962-65!), and a lot of undergraduates (we don't call them "students") now seem to stay up into 9th week. And also they now do graduation ceremonies (I believe they even throw their mortar boards in the air - comes from watching too much American TV) and there is one that weekend. I managed to get the last (single) room in my college, but you might have luck somewhere else, maybe St. Anne's, Lady Margaret Hall or Somerville (all former ladies' colleges not too far from St. Hugh's).
Failing that, all the colleges have lists of recommended B&Bs etc., and if you send me a fax number, I'll fax you St. Hugh's list (it's on - ugh! - paper).
Rod
| | | | | Hostels at Oxford | Aug 19, 2004 |
Hello everybody,
I just found this website http://www.hostelsweb.com/cities/oxford.html and booked a bed in a 4-bed room in the "Oxford Backpacker's Hostel" for 16.00 GBP per night. The hostel is right in the town center between the bus and train stations and they have a 24 hour reception. Might be a good idea for everybody who wants to save some money. Maybe we can fill some roo... See more Hello everybody,
I just found this website http://www.hostelsweb.com/cities/oxford.html and booked a bed in a 4-bed room in the "Oxford Backpacker's Hostel" for 16.00 GBP per night. The hostel is right in the town center between the bus and train stations and they have a 24 hour reception. Might be a good idea for everybody who wants to save some money. Maybe we can fill some rooms with conference attendees.
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| | | | BridgetC
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| I may have a room | Aug 21, 2004 |
Hi,
Its possible I may have a room free in my house, but I won't be able to confirm this until November, so I guess it would be strictly for last minute arrangements !
My email address is: [email protected]
Charge would be £15.00/night. I will be going to the conference, though travelling in on the bus (a direct route which takes about 20mins on a Saturday morning).
Br... See more Hi,
Its possible I may have a room free in my house, but I won't be able to confirm this until November, so I guess it would be strictly for last minute arrangements !
My email address is: [email protected]
Charge would be £15.00/night. I will be going to the conference, though travelling in on the bus (a direct route which takes about 20mins on a Saturday morning).
Bridget
PS: to those who have written to me making enquiries about the room. As I have said above I won't know if the room will be free until first week in November. Sorry !
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| Brigith Guimarães
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Hello, everybody
I just booked a single for me in Woodstock Road, close to St Hughs and from all the enquiries I sent, I know that - AT THIS MOMENT - the following places still have vacancies, if you wish to get in touch:
EUROBAR HOTEL OXFORD ([email protected])
Tilbury Lodge ([email protected])
Beaumont Guest House ([email protected])
Chestnuts Guest House"
Casavilla oxford
... See more Hello, everybody
I just booked a single for me in Woodstock Road, close to St Hughs and from all the enquiries I sent, I know that - AT THIS MOMENT - the following places still have vacancies, if you wish to get in touch:
EUROBAR HOTEL OXFORD ([email protected])
Tilbury Lodge ([email protected])
Beaumont Guest House ([email protected])
Chestnuts Guest House"
Casavilla oxford
source: www.oxfordcity.co.uk
hope to have been of help
[Edited at 2004-09-03 13:37]
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| | | | | Accomodation in nearby Reading | Sep 7, 2004 |
I live in Reading now, have a sofabed in the living room and could therefore accommodate one or two people. (There might even be a possibility for a third person if I haven't found a person to share the house with by then...)
Please send e-mail or phone me.
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