USMS is considering a bid for the 2006 FINA Master's World Championships to be held at Stanford University, Palo Alto California. The swim meet would take place over about seven day. If you were going to swim there, where would you like to stay:
San Francisco - about 30 miles - 45 minutes away
Palo Alto - 1-4 miles from the pool venue
San Jose -about 20 Miles away - 30 minutes
The IGLA meet had hotels in San Francisco and Palo Alto. The swimmers got to choose where they would want to stay. There were dinners for the swimmers in San Francisco, so I would have guessed many of the swimmers would have wanted to stay there for that reason. But the swimmers got to choose where they wanted to stay.
I am just trying to get a read on where to book hotels.
(Put Phil down for walking - does not even need a parking space.)
it has a lot of homeless people in certain places and like any big city it also has its ghetto or barrio.
Yes, San Francisco has been attractive to homeless people, but it also has great restaurants, everything in the Union Square, downtown area, Chinatown, North Beach, SOMA is within walking distance. While the City does have its low rent districts, it is impossible to find a home for less than $375,000 and rents are fairly high, so the vision of the ghetto or barrio that is in most people minds is not in the City.
michael
Michael, what a silly question!
I'll just stay at home and walk to the meet!
:)
I was a little surprised at the IGLA meet that the host motel was in SF (well, maybe not too surprised.) Anyway, I think a daily commute to the meet from SF would be a problem, especially in a meet with relatively few events daily. The commute from San Jose is not much better.
I pick near Stanford. Its a little out of the tourist areas. While SF is a tourist place, it has a lot of homeless people in certain places and like any big city it also has its ghetto or barrio.
I didn't say the whole place is a ghetto or barrio. But there are low income areas with public housing or people that live under rent control. I use to live in Orange County California while that place is more of a suburban area- the Santa Ana-Anaheim area has its barrios and people that are so poor they can't even afford to rent an apartment and live in motels. Its housing isn't as high as the bay area but its pretty high.
cinc310, what are you talking about?
I don't think the decision on whether to stay in downtown SF has anything to do with a ghettor or barrio? Have you ever been to the touristy areas of SF? Not quite what I would call a bad neighborhood.
Are the Palo Hotels able to accomodate all of the swimmers at the 2006 worlds? Has Stanford received the bid for the 2006 Worlds yet? If not - we should really highlight the great things in the entire area - including the wonderful city of San Francisco in this thread. We would not want to shoot ourselves in the foot - just because a few of us have a few loaded guns we like to wield around...
Why don’t we all just stay at Phil’s house?
Phil, you could charge each of the 7,500 expected participants $10 a night for 2 weeks and make a little over $1 million.
excellent weather, excellent hotels, excellent food (even in Palo Alto and San Jose,) culturally dynamic, and a great swim facility - The bay area and Stanford can't be beat, and everyone will have fun and fast swims.
It is not the cheapest place on earth, however. Michael - given the high density of masters swimmers here (probably the highest in the world) perhaps we could set up a 'host' system, where international swimmers can stay at other swimmer's homes. I would be willing to house a couple or so . . .
It's in 2006 maybe, cinc310. Start saving now and you can stay at a good hotel. I tell you if the opportunity presents itself for a meet in the SF area, it will be very popular. That's one great place.
