<VV> Parking at Buffalo convention

[Ron]

Econorun at Issaquah, Washington this summer has a negotiated rate of $99! 
What are you fussing about?
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Kepler" <jekepler at amplex.net>
To: "Virtual Vairs" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>; "Harry Jensen, CORSA 
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Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Parking at Buffalo convention


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>> Hello--
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>> Well, I tried mightily to stay out of this one, but I can't help myself. 
>> I think there are some things in this discussion which need to be said.
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> Some other things need to be said too.  I have been traveling to and 
> staying in Buffalo on business for the last decade and change.  Let me 
> tell ALL of you, that at $80 a night, the convention organizers are 
> getting ya'll better rooms cheaper than I've ever been able to get in the 
> area!
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> The cheapest motel rooms I was ever able to get were $70 at the Days Inn 
> over the bowling alley (not kidding!) in Hamburg just off the 
> Thruway......and THAT rat-trap burnt down in January!  Buffalo is NOT 
> cheap! The "$29.95" rooms at the Red Roof have always cost over 
> $100.....the Holiday Inn out by the airport was $145 ten years ago!  If 
> the Bills are playing at home, the rates double if you can find one at 
> all!  It's New York people.......not East Log Jam, Kentucky!  Buffalo may 
> be a long way from the Big Apple, but Albany makes damn-sure that the 
> tax-structure for one is the tax-structure for all, and Niagara Falls and 
> the Casinos are just up the road. (If you're carping about the cost of 
> rooms....wait 'til you buy a tank of gas!......the 35 mile one-way trip to 
> the Seneca Indian reservation west of Buffalo for "tax-free" gas is well 
> worth the trip.....to buy gas for 10 cents more a gallon than any station 
> in Ohio!)
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> Count your blessings!  I'm simply not sure whose life got threatened to 
> get THAT good a room-rate for the Convention, but I'm obviously a LOT more 
> impressed than some on this list.  FWIW, I live in Ottawa County, Ohio. 
> This is a MAJOR tourist area, and if you can GET a room in July (a 
> functional impossibility), it's gonna cost you at least a couple Large per 
> night!  The organizers of the Bufalo Convention deserve "Atta Boys!" for 
> this, not the brick-bats they seem to be getting!
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> John Kepler
> '65 Corsa 140
> '67 Monza Contvertible
> '69 Monza 110
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