Sunday, November 16, 2008

Eclipse summit europe -- no more hotels

OK, I admit, it is a bit late to look for a hotel for Eclipse Summit Europe 2008. Today I tried about 30 hotels. It seems all hotels in Ludwigsburg are booked out. Well, I thought no big deal: I would follow the S-Train line and book a hotel close to any S-train station. Well, all hotels are booked out along the S-train lines, including the hotel close to the Stuttgart main station!? I finally found a hotel not far from Ludwigsburg, next to the S-Train station in Asperg, but it turned out that the address was listed wrongly in google maps and the hotel is not even close to any train station....

It's not that bad -- with public traffic it is 1h30 to 1h45 from my home in Heidelberg to the "Forum am Schlosspark". The only bad thing is that my latest train is around 9:30PM, and the good discussions are usually late in the bar....

That means waking up early (it's really early for me, since I "virtually" live in the EST time zone -- I go to bed at 6AM and wake up at 1:30PM)...

If you found a hotel in <30 min distance to summit, let me know.