bernie

Got it. For hotels in the top ranks here is what I posted some days ago:
The Renaissance is the farthest away from downtown of the deluxe hotels. No possibilty to have a walk just "out the door", no shops, restaurants or entertainment nearby. Great rate, but you'll pay about 20 DEM each way downtown by cab.
Hilton, SAS Radisson are halfway between airport and city center. (Cab about 12 DEM)

Nikko within walking distance to major department stores and Königsallee. Steigenberger Parkhotel just exactly at the "borderline" between Altstadt and Königsallee - so you will just "fall into your bed".
Holiday Inn at the other end of Königsallee but within walking distance to all the buzz.

There are of course some 3 * hotels, too. Some with excellent location like th Dorint, two BestWesterns, some independent ones and the MariottCourtyard, where I will have my meeting tomorrow - not today as I totally confused mentioned .... yesterday ? hmm ?

so no posting here tomorrow - except may be the early Düsseldorf morning. See ya.

Where had all the "funny" North Germans" been the entire day.

Was ist los .... Habt Ihr Euer Pulver schon verschossen ? Ich hab's gewusst !!!

Mizu

Bernie: It's difficult to post when you're in a meeting with a client the whole day... even if you have access to your laptop & mobile... Makes me wonder - has anyone on this board ever posted from an actual meeting at work that turned out to be extremely boring otherwise? (some people seem to post 24/7)

ElmhurstNick

I'm so sad... I cannot make it on the 11th, I have to be at the wedding of a close friend that day. Otherwise, I'd be there.

curt

Bernie, even I have to work sometimes
Und verschossen is hier noch garnix ...


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Rudi

LH Zurich did defenetly book kokonutz (I am not sure if he knows already ...):

Saturday, nov-11-2000 that's 2 days after his birthday!
LH 4627 leaving LHR 08:15AM, arriving DUS 10:30AM (he looses one hour)

Sunday, nov-12-2000
LH 4670 leaving DUS 10:20AM, arriving LHR 10:45AM (he wins one hour)



(so much from a slow swiss, as our neighbours from the big 'northern canton' say ... )

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kokonutz

Thanks Rudi...you're the "brightest" and "swiftest" (not to mention most generous) European I've ever met...(of course all that could change on 11/11 )

Here is my "final" intinerary for that week (some parts already purchased, other parts will be purchased next week):

Tuesday November 7:
UA 881 IAD-ORD 10:05-11:00
UA 1650 ORD-MCO 13:35-17:05

Wednesday November 8:
UA 1219 MCO-ORD 8:05-9:54
UA 418 ORD-BWI 10:35-1:12
UA 787 BWI-DEN 15:00-16:45
UA 547 DEN-SFO 17:50-19:20

November 10/11:
UA 930 SFO-LHR 12:40-06:50
LH 4627 LHR-DUS 8:15-10:30

November 12:
LH ???? DUS-LHR 10:20-10:45
UA 919 LHR-IAD 12:30-15:45

Now I'm waiting to see who wants to join me on some of these segments !!!

Rudi

I'll take care that

Nov-11: LH 4627 LHR-DUS 8:15-10:30
Nov-12: LH 4670 DUS-LHR 10:20-10:45

is calculated in kokonutz's UA's MIleage Plus program as a 'non-stopover-flight LHR-LHR with 0 miles' (international stopovers start >24 hours)

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GK

Well. I am sorted. BA 946 LHR to DUS on Friday 10 Nov, arrive 9.30 pm, 2 nights at the Hilton, then BA 943 on sunday back home at 7.15pm...looking forward to brushing up my german...Nothing like a lunchtime down the pub to force me to make flight booking decisions.

GK

auh2o

I think that I will join Koko on his SFO-LHR LHR-DUS and DUS-LHR segments. However the LHR-LAX leaves at 11:45 so that is not much time to connect in LHR. Koko - (in the voice of Hank Williams JR) are you ready for auh2o?

I will still need to work out my LHR-DUS and DUS-LHR however.

Rudi

LH (ZRH-Switzerland) after some deep research, that fare didn't pup up first in their computer, did find a fare of £90 (+ tax) for those flights (Fare rules say something like APEX, far-advanced-buying, and whatever-else-retrictions).

john: If you can't book it yourself, I could try to do it for you here in ZRH and send you the tickets (but you can't change/adjust/give-them-back etc anymore) - and you could pay me back once here (and I would get the miles on my credit card ...).

Rudi

great GK: we (all alemanic people) will accept some english as second language spoken then ...

The germans from the North don't understand my swiss-german anyway ... ).

GK

Rudi, es ist jetzt zwoelf jahren seit ich deutsch im schule so gelernt. Natuerlich kann ich viel besser wenn's bier geben.

Oh I do need to revise ! What's more embarrasing is that I actually lived in Germany during my univ holidays.. when I worked in Steigenberger parking cars and getting a taste for the hotel lifestyle.

Mizu

GK: Your German will get you along just fine - plus, with sufficient supply of Alt, Esperanto becomes a reality
Rudi: If I can manage to get along in Estonia for a couple of months, Swiss German should be no problem - just treat it like an interesting, yet uninterpreteable stream of audio and rely on body language

So, for the records, if I take Bernies last list and update it, this is the current status (assuming neither Bernie nor Rudi have some confirmations hidden in their Mailboxes ):

Confirmed:
Rudi and Gisela
Mizu
Kokonutz
Bernie
GK
auh2o (itinerary under construction)

interested:
Punki
Curt
Anna S
Germanflyer
Greg99
Kempis

undecided:
Reisevergnügen
Nathan Detroit
The Bandit
James
Ozstamps

Anyone missing or in the wrong category?

Rudi

GK Dein Deutsch ist besser als mein Englisch - umsomehr als mein perfektes, reines Oxford englisch durch die Teilnahme an diesem Board (durch die Nordamerikaner und Australier) nicht verbessert wurde

I don't dare to translate this - another flaming war would probably start right away

kokonutz

Jesus, Mary and Joseph!!!! 14 hours and 2 aircraft with Auh2o?????? Then DUS Bier on TOP of that?

I'm afraid. Very, very afraid.