Re: MWSF attendee advice....
Re: MWSF attendee advice....
- Subject: Re: MWSF attendee advice....
- From: Yan Feng <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:59:30 +0800
It will be extraordinarily difficult depriving me of a car... ;-) Although
I'm a public transportations kind of guy too.
Yan Feng.
Art Payne (Vendor Relations) (email@hidden) wrote to us on
6/11/03 20:02
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on 11/6/03, Jim Foster wrote:
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> Don't bother renting a car in SF. It will be about as pointless as in
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> NYC if not more so. San Francisco is much smaller than NYC and Moscone
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> (and most hotels) are within easy walking distance of just about
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> anything and everything you would want.
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I agree with Jim on most points but on my first trip to MWSF, me and 3 of my
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User Group buddies had rented a car for two reasons. First to drive Lombard
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Street (the world9s most crooked street) and to visit Apple Headquarters in
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Cupertino (maybe not worth the day rental for just one person but there was
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4 of us). Apple Headquarters is pretty tight security wise (we were told not
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to take pictures, even in the parking lot) and there is not much to see
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except the Apple Company Store (gift shop with more Apple branded
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merchandise than any place else). The running joke from one of my buddies
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(who buys a new Tower at almost every release) is that he has bought so many
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Macs from Apple he has had to pay for a Brick or two at Apple Headquarters
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and he wanted to see HIS BRICK first hand! As a true Mac user, it is always
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good for 3Bragging Rights2 to say you have been to Cupertino at least once
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in your life (LOL).
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Other than that, public transportation is a breeze as Jim said. I would
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suggest buying a 7 Day pass which allows you to ride all Public
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Transportation for less than $20. Good for hopping Cable cars on the fly and
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for pre planned trips to different destinations.
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As far as hotels, we also stayed at the Marriott for less than $100 per
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night, use some of the Internet sites to try and find a better deal than
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$199 per night. Last year Internet access was like an additional $12 per
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night per room but we brought a Base station and we were all able to surf
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off of just one room net access charge.
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Hopefully, I9ll be at MWSF 04 too. I have to start planning soon.
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--
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Art Payne
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Director of Vendor Relations
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Michigan Apple User Group
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http: //www.TheMichiganApple.com
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E-mail: email@hidden
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