Recommended Hotel
The recommended hotel for the meeting is
the Marriott
Inn & Conference Center, a high-quality hotel located on the
edge of the University of Maryland campus. The walking distance to
the Stamp Student Union (where the meetings will be held) is
about 0.7 mile / 1.1 km.
The rooms have wired Internet service which is free of charge.
(I hear that they provide cables, but you might bring one just in case.)
We have arranged for a block of rooms at the
deeply discounted rate of $139 per night for either a room with a king
bed or a room with two queen beds. The room block runs from the night
of the 14th through the night of the 18th (i.e. check-out on the 19th);
if you are arriving on the 13th, make your reservation by phone and they
may give you the conference rate or even a special holiday rate for that
night. As of November 21, there are still a number of two-queen-bed
rooms available.
You can book a room at the special rate in either of the following ways:
- Call Marriott Reservations at 1-800-228-9290 and
provide group code LSCB for a two-queen-bed room.
- Use the hotel web site
and enter the group code LSCLSCB for a two-queen-bed room.
Note: There are a fixed number of rooms per night available at the
special rate. The room block is being held until November 23
(extended from the original date of November 21).
At this point, if all our rooms fill up, it will not be possible
to add any more rooms at the special rate.
Alternative Hotels
There are other hotels located near campus that may be somewhat less
expensive, but they are all significantly inferior in quality and/or
too far to walk from. The following three are worth considering if
minimizing cost is important to you. (Hotel locations with respect to
campus are shown on the map below.)
- The Quality
Inn, located south of campus, is about 1 mile / 1.6 km from the
meeting location. It is not a good hotel (for instance, it rates
poorly
on TripAdvisor.com),
but may be acceptable if you do not expect much.
- The Comfort Inn, located northeast of campus, is reported to be an OK hotel. It is a bit far from the meeting location to walk, at 1.3 mile / 2.1 km.
- The Holiday Inn, located farther northeast of campus, is considered to be a reasonably good hotel. It is definitely too far away to walk.
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Key
U : Union (Meeting location)
I : Inn & Conference Center
Q : Quality Inn
C : Comfort Inn
H : Holiday Inn
M : College Park Metro station
Interactive Google map
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December 2008 Meeting