- From: <rob@blaeu.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 11:15:38 +0100 (CET)
- To: "Aleecia M. McDonald" <aleecia@aleecia.com>
- Cc: "Tracking Protection Working Group WG" <public-tracking@w3.org>
To get the best deals currently, I can recommend trivago.com or trivago.co.uk. The website does an amazing job, also for 4 or 5 star hotels with breakfast included. -- Rob Aleecia M. McDonald wrote: > Hello, > > We have final locations for the f2f. Thanks for your patience while we > waited on details. > > January 24th: Morning meetings in Beaulieu > Afternoon meetings in Centre Borschette > > January 25th: Berlaymont > January 26th: Berlaymont > > Changing buildings midday on the 24th is not ideal, but we are a large > enough group that it took a bit of juggling to accommodate us during a > busy time. Berlaymont is lovely: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlaymont_building > > All three buildings are all on subway line 5. Beaulieu is at the Beaulieu > station; Centre Borschette and Berlaymont are at the Schuman station. On > the 24th we will take the subway six stops from Beaulieu to Schuman with a > 5 minute walk to Centre Borschette (the other two buildings are nearly on > top of their subway stations.) We'll all go over as a group. An annotated > map follows. > > For hotels, the easiest thing to do is to book a hotel near the Schuman > subway stop. I picked > > B-Aparthotel Ambiorix > http://b-aparthotels.com/ambiorix > > This is very easy walking distance to the subway and to Berlaymont. > Priceline is advertising $123USD. It's not large enough to hold all of us, > and by no means where you "should" go -- you are free to stay anywhere you > like. I'm just sharing what I found. Similarly, it would be hard to beat > the Holiday Inn Brussels Schuman for location, which looks to be about > $270USD a night. > > If you are looking for something with nightlife and fun, you might prefer > a hotel in the City Centre area. Just look for a hotel near subway line 5 > and you will be fine for transit. There are many options. Another plus to > City Centre is proximity to trains if you have time for additional travel. > For pointers on seeing Brussels, try http://wikitravel.org/en/Brussels > > Thanks to Thomas and our hosts at the European Commission for their work > putting this together! > > Aleecia > > > > Potentially useful details -- > > Subway line 5 list of stops: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_Metro_line_5 > Map of subways: > http://mapsof.net/uploads/static-maps/brussels_metro_map.png > > Street addresses: > Beaulieu: Avenue de Beaulieu 27 1160 Auderghem, Belgium /* I'm guessing > on the building number as 27 as a reasonable map point within the complex > of buildings there */ > Centre Borschette: 36 rue Froissart, 1040 Brussels, Belgium > Berlaymont: Rue de la Loi 200 1049 City of Brussels, Belgium
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