From: "Rich Fromm - 'Whatever you do, take care of your shoes.'  18-Nov-1992 1846" <fromm@rock.enet.dec.com>
Subject: nye update
Reply-To: fromm@rock.enet.dec.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:47:34 GMT

well, i just made a few calls

first of all, the MBTA (the people who run the T) have no clue how late the T 
will run on nye; so if they don't know, who does?  my guess is that it's 
probably slightly past the regular time (which is around 12:30), but definitely 
not all night

I called the Midtown Hotel, the Colonnade, the Boston Marriott Copley Place, 
the Copley Square Hotel, the Sheraton Boston Hotel and Towers, the Back Bay 
Hilton Hotel, the Lenox Hotel, the Howard Johnson Boston-Fenway, and the Howard 
Johnson Boston-Kenmore Square.

Prices are indeed kind of pricey.  (Ok, that does sound like a pretty stupid 
statement.)  Both HoJo's are $105/night, including parking.  They said they 
have group rates for 10 rooms or more, but I spoke with the sales guy at one of 
them and he said that that wasn't applicable for nye.  My guess is that that's 
true at the other HoJo too.  The Sheraton is $79/night (these prices are based 
on double occupancy) if you make reservations 14 days in advance.  But parking 
is not included, and if you park at the hotel it's $16/day.  I was told to 
contact the sales departemtact the sales department about group rates.  I 
haven't done that yet, but again, I have this feeling that they might not be 
too up for it on nye, since they'll most likely fill the place without doing 
that.  Prices at the other places go up from this level.

brian.feller@um.cc.umich.edu writes:

| Hotels for NYE:
|  A friend of mine called and got two rooms at the
|Days Inn in Newton, MA, which is just outside of
|Boston. I don't know if they have any rooms left,
|but it's worth checking out. The rate we got was
|$49 per night. If you want to get a hotel inside
|the city, expect to pay $100 at least for a room,
|and I bet we'd be hard pressed to find a hotel that
|could give a group of rooms for netters inside the
|city. 

well, he did indeed have a point; a viable option would be to consider staying
outside of boston; my whole reason for doing this was to not have to worry
about driving somewhere afterwards, and to be able to just hang out after the 
show and party; since i live in framingham, if i've got to get all the way to 
newton, i'd just head all the way home and bag the hotel idea

there is another option, however

located VERY close to the arena is a YMCA, and they have rooms that they rent 
out; the lady on the phone said that they're kind of like dorm rooms;  $33 for 
a single room, $48 for a double room; these rooms do not have private baths, 
but share a bath for the hall;  there are some single rooms with private baths 
available for $48; the prices include breakfast the next morning, and i think 
use of the facilities for the day; i didn't actually see the rooms, but in 
general the Y looked pretty nice, and i think there was something talking about 
recent renovations; so it's not some run-down, cockroach-infested dive; alas, 
the Y does not have parking; she gave me the phone number of the closest garage 
to find out their rates, but they're not answering the phone;  there is some 
on-street parking, but not a hell of a lot of it; and i think there is parking 
just for the arena, but i don't know if they'd allow all night parking; if this 
looks like an option to consider, i can call and ask

so, for people who are interested, i'd like to get some feedback about what you 
think:  1) expensive hotel inside boston, 2) cheaper hotel outside of boston, 
or 3) the YMCA;  if the decision is on either 1 or 2, there's a decent chance i 
may bag the idea of doing this personally and just drive home after the show

please send me e-mail if you'd care to voice an opinion on the matter, or to 
provide more information on how many people/rooms you'd want

. . . r i c H