Re: Philcon is in New Jersey (!) this year

Andre Lieven wrote:
> On Mar 10, 9:21 am, "Evelyn C. Leeper" <elee...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Just.A.New...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>>> On Mar 9, 10:23 pm, Petrea Mitchell <pr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>> wrote:
>>>> At 23 Feb 2008 15:16:13 -0500,
>>>> Keith F. Lynch <k...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> strode forth and proclaimed:
>>>>> Philcon will be in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, November 21-23, the
>>>>> weekend before Thanksgiving.
>>>> Whyever would they do a silly thing like that?
>>> Probably no where else to go?
>> How about the fact that downtown Philadelphia is not really a great
>> place for a weekend convention?  The Sunday morning restaurant
situation
>> is pathetic but even at other times, the latest hotel was several
blocks
>> away from anyplace good to eat dinner.  (Not to mention that the hotel
>> itself had a ton of problems.)  In other words, walking to meals is a
>> definite problem.
> 
> Well, it surely was more of a issue than when Philcon was by the
> Redding Terminal Market. At that hotel, there were several eateries
> across from the back end of the hotel, and more either side at the
> front end.

Not that we could find, and the Reading Teminal Market was closed on 
Sundays.

> But, this past year's Philcn, my wife and I ate at a Fridays, or a
> similar
> sit down restaurant, a couple of blocks from the con hotel, and on one
> day of the con, I fetched Subway sandwiches for the both of us from a
> similar distance.
> 
>> In a suburban hotel, you can easily drive to a variety of restaurants.
>> In an urban setting, Your car is in a garage, and even if you want to
>> bother taking it out, you still have to find some place to park it not
>> to far from the restaurant.
> 
> Yep. Though, another urban option is to take mass transit from the
> hotel to a chosen eatery, and back.

If you understand the mass transit system.

> I just looked the Philcon 2007 Restaurant Guide and it contains
> three pages of listings, pretty much all within one mile of the hotel.
> 62 restaurants and 10 grocery/markets, all within one mile, and
> many no more than 1/4th of a mile away. The TGIFs is listed as
> being 0.07 miles away. The Subways is listed as 0.17 miles away.

IIRC, there was no restaurant guide that we could find at the 2006 
Philcon.  Having an RC definitely would help.  (We ended up using the 
Millennium Philcon one.)

-- 
Evelyn C. Leeper
Heretic: someone who disagrees with you about
something neither of you knows anything about.