<VV> Parking at Buffalo convention

[John Kepler]

> Hello--
>
> Well, I tried mightily to stay out of this one, but I can't help myself. I 
> think there are some things in this discussion which need to be said.

Some other things need to be said too.  I have been traveling to and staying 
in Buffalo on business for the last decade and change.  Let me tell ALL of 
you, that at $80 a night, the convention organizers are getting ya'll better 
rooms cheaper than I've ever been able to get in the area!

The cheapest motel rooms I was ever able to get were $70 at the Days Inn 
over the bowling alley (not kidding!) in Hamburg just off the 
Thruway......and THAT rat-trap burnt down in January!  Buffalo is NOT cheap! 
The "$29.95" rooms at the Red Roof have always cost over $100.....the 
Holiday Inn out by the airport was $145 ten years ago!  If the Bills are 
playing at home, the rates double if you can find one at all!  It's New York 
people.......not East Log Jam, Kentucky!  Buffalo may be a long way from the 
Big Apple, but Albany makes damn-sure that the tax-structure for one is the 
tax-structure for all, and Niagara Falls and the Casinos are just up the 
road. (If you're carping about the cost of rooms....wait 'til you buy a tank 
of gas!......the 35 mile one-way trip to the Seneca Indian reservation west 
of Buffalo for "tax-free" gas is well worth the trip.....to buy gas for 10 
cents more a gallon than any station in Ohio!)

Count your blessings!  I'm simply not sure whose life got threatened to get 
THAT good a room-rate for the Convention, but I'm obviously a LOT more 
impressed than some on this list.  FWIW, I live in Ottawa County, Ohio. 
This is a MAJOR tourist area, and if you can GET a room in July (a 
functional impossibility), it's gonna cost you at least a couple Large per 
night!  The organizers of the Bufalo Convention deserve "Atta Boys!" for 
this, not the brick-bats they seem to be getting!

John Kepler
'65 Corsa 140
'67 Monza Contvertible
'69 Monza 110