Hotels and cafes and b&bs and...
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beccaelizabethWhat's the things to look for when you're looking for a place to stay?
I usually stay in convention hotels where someone else has already chosen the venue. I suspect there's a new skill set involved in picking a good hotel.
I like the websites that pull reviews together from lots of places. Any that mention dirty bathrooms or dead mice I can decide to avoid.
I was looking at Glastonbury places and I think I will also put on my avoid list 'rooms named after rose quartz' and 'reiki treatments'. They're just not what I'm looking for.
I look for wifi. Hotels aren't the only place to get that though. Where else, though? College library isn't the most useful thing when it's the other side of the country...
Hotels are always better if you decide on them in advance and book and stuff. But a Quest would have to be very organised to book every night in advance.
I need to pick a couple of base camps and focus in on things to see around them. Britain is quite close together unless and until you're trying to use public transport. So far it looks like going through Bristol a few times will be necessary. Did I go to a convention in Bristol before? I might know a hotel there... yeah, Starfury:Chosen was at the Thistle Bristol. I been to a lot of Thistle hotels, there's a temptation to go to more just because I been to them. But if you look on websites there's places that are like £35 a night and ... aieee, Bristol is £99 per night, that's a bit swish, familiar is not worth +£60.
... I keep thinking I'm going to have to cross the road and maybe this isn't a good idea at all and I'll probably only get as far as one place for one day and and and...
... in the planning phase I will grandly ignore all that and keep seeing what's out there.
I usually stay in convention hotels where someone else has already chosen the venue. I suspect there's a new skill set involved in picking a good hotel.
I like the websites that pull reviews together from lots of places. Any that mention dirty bathrooms or dead mice I can decide to avoid.
I was looking at Glastonbury places and I think I will also put on my avoid list 'rooms named after rose quartz' and 'reiki treatments'. They're just not what I'm looking for.
I look for wifi. Hotels aren't the only place to get that though. Where else, though? College library isn't the most useful thing when it's the other side of the country...
Hotels are always better if you decide on them in advance and book and stuff. But a Quest would have to be very organised to book every night in advance.
I need to pick a couple of base camps and focus in on things to see around them. Britain is quite close together unless and until you're trying to use public transport. So far it looks like going through Bristol a few times will be necessary. Did I go to a convention in Bristol before? I might know a hotel there... yeah, Starfury:Chosen was at the Thistle Bristol. I been to a lot of Thistle hotels, there's a temptation to go to more just because I been to them. But if you look on websites there's places that are like £35 a night and ... aieee, Bristol is £99 per night, that's a bit swish, familiar is not worth +£60.
... I keep thinking I'm going to have to cross the road and maybe this isn't a good idea at all and I'll probably only get as far as one place for one day and and and...
... in the planning phase I will grandly ignore all that and keep seeing what's out there.