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calimac ([personal profile] calimac) wrote2008-12-03 08:03 am
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going to Potlatch?

Anyone considering flying from Seattle should be aware of this:
The Virgin America sale requires travelers to buy tickets on its Web site, www.virginamerica.com, by Dec. 11 and commence travel on or after Jan. 6. All travel must be complete by March 1. The deals include $59 fares one-way between San Francisco and three destinations - Las Vegas, San Diego and Seattle.
Sunday, March 1, by some wonderful coincidence, is the last day of Potlatch. There are flights leaving San Francisco at 4:45 and 8:59 PM, which are late enough to keep you from missing the convention and its fabulous Banquet.

We have been recommending that, all things being equal, travelers fly to San Jose, as it's only 7 miles away. But the San Francisco airport is not hard to get to, either: it's 33 miles by road from Sunnyvale, which is about the same distance to SeaTac from, oh, Edmonds. (And the freeway traffic isn't usually quite as bad.) This shuttle quotes $35 for the first passenger, $9 each additional, from zip code 94087 where our hotel is.

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[identity profile] n6tqs.livejournal.com 2008-12-03 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
And you can take two buses at a total cost of $3.25 from SFO to the hotel, but only with carry-on luggage.


[identity profile] marykaykare.livejournal.com 2008-12-03 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I have not yet decided whether to attend this year's Potlatch since it's been moved out of the very convenient SF location to the burbs. I had the SJ airport and, after having flown in and out of it a couple of times swore never to do so again. Unfortunately, if I fly into SF I can no longer just hop on BART and go straight to the hotel. I also note that the hotel page on the Potlatch site talks about the restaurants within a 3/4 mi walk of the hotel. Um. That's farther than I can/will walk on most days, esp in rainy BA February weather. So all in all I'm not really encouraged about coming since the SF location worked so much better for me.

On the other hand, I've been to all but 2 of the Potlatches and it would be a shame to miss one. I just don't know. But I do know I wish you all hadn't moved.

MKK
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