[eurolisp] Re: Amsterdam, Amsterdam!

[Tayssir John Gabbour]

Luke Gorrie wrote:
 > Pascal Costanza <pc at p-cos.net> writes:
 >>On 6-Apr-05, at 11:52, Arthur Lemmens wrote:
 >>>Pascal Costanza wrote:
 >>>>I have now bookd a room at Belfort Hotel - http://www.belforthotel.nl/
 >>>>
 >>>>I hope this isn't too far away from everything.
 >>>
 >>>It doesn't look like it's within walking distance of the center.
 >>
 >>Damn, they are also fully booked. :(
 >
 > Hostels are great because most don't take reservations - just turn up
 > at 9am and you should be fine. Otherwise you have to stay somewhere
 > expensive for a night and then try again.
 >
 > There're also "hotel agents" in Amsterdam who will find you a cheap
 > room for a 5- or 10- euro charge but I don't know how to contact them.
 > You can visit one if you get stuck without a place to stay.

I found an inexpensive hotel near the meeting, ~Eur60/night. (Perhaps 
inexpensive for being associated with a casino?)
http://www.quentinhotels.com/Quentin/specials.asp

The way I found it was scanning this site for openings only on sunday:
http://www.eurocheapo.com/amsterdam/

Then googled the first nice-looking (inexpensive) hotel I came across. 
Apparently these middleman websites are inefficient or conservative, so 
you may be able to book hotels even if eurocheapo.com flags it as 
unavailable for saturday. I'm not staying at this particular one, but 
perhaps someone may be interested.

And there are also nice-looking hostels too... perhaps someone might 
coincidentally get a room with a couple lisp users like I did in Oslo, 
when I went into the room and found a copy of On Lisp lying on the table.


MfG,
Tayssir