[Workshop-mar2012] Workshop location details for planning travel

[Zhengpeng Hou]

There is a holiday inn express nearby the park, if you guys don't mind 
to stay in the express, you may take a look. Price is under 500RMB/night.
On 02/29/2012 09:06 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 04:43:42PM -0800, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
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>> Hello:
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>> If you are looking for a hotel for the Beijing workshop, here is some
>> information about where the workshop is located.
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>> This is not the exact address, but it is a better search term:
>>
>> ZhongGuanCun Software Park, Beijing
>>
>> Here is that search in Google Maps:
>>
>> https://maps.google.com/maps?q=ZhongGuanCun+Software+Park,+Beijing&hl=en&sll=36.971328,-122.021302&sspn=0.009669,0.024548&t=w&hq=ZhongGuanCun+Software+Park,&hnear=Beijing,+China&z=11
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>> Hopefully you can use this information for your trip planning.
>
>    Note that the ZhongGuanCun Software Park is *not* in the ZhongGuanCun
> aread (in the Haidian district) but relatively further away in the
> north. Myself I picked an hotel in the Haidian district and plan to take
> subway line 10 + 13 (or a taxi which are relatively inexpensives from
> western standards) to get to the Software Park. Good hotels in the
> Haidian district should be around 500 RMB/night, one can certainly find
> cheaper ones, and possibly closer ones !
>    Tip for foreign travellers, get the hotel address (preferably in
> chinese) and phone printed on paper and give it to the taxi at the
> airport, trying to pronounce chinese when not trained to do it leads
> to much difficulties. Another tip is that getting from the airport
> to that part of Beijing takes at least 40 minutes and traffic jams there
> are frequents, it should cost you a bit more than 100 yuan (taxi should
> activate the meter :)
>
> Daniel
>


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