The Burning Amp Festival- an Audio Happening

[Michael Rothacher]

I'm sorry, Ashok, I believe you've misunderstood me. I'm referring to the videos that already exist from previous events. I don't think I'll be able to make it to San Francisco this year.

But, if I can help bring your streaming vid endeavour to life in some other way, let me know.

[ashok]

Hi Michael, sorry about that. I did misunderstand that. No problem, we do need someone who could do it this time. We need to give time for others to mull over it and see if they can help out here.
Where are those video's from the 2011 BAF ? Maybe we should put them up now. On Youtube or on this website ? Youtube might be better now as we won't take away bandwidth from here ?

[Michael Rothacher]

Can someone please suggest affordable lodgings close by and the best way to get there from the airport, i.e. is renting a car absolutely necessary?

Thanks. I'm doing a feasibility study.

[dagerman]

Hi Michael,
There are a number of reasonably priced motels along Lombard street. It's been a while since I stayed at one of them, but it was very nice and $99/night. I believe it was the Lombard Street Motor Inn.
Then there is the whole Fisherman's Wharf area with a lot of hotels.
Both areas are within walking distance from Fort Mason (15-20 minutes).

You can get from the airport to downtown on BART (Bart.gov) and with SFMTA bus to the BAF neighborhood. Very easy and saving you the pain of finding parking in SF.

HTH,
Stefan

[jacco vermeulen]

I recall seeing plenty vacant parking spaces in the Castro, only have to move a dike a couple of yards. (on second thought)

[6L6]

Originally Posted by Michael Rothacher

Can someone please suggest affordable lodgings close by and the best way to get there from the airport, i.e. is renting a car absolutely necessary?

First, if you are flying in, and dont mind a nice walk, under no circumstances get a car.

The BART has a station in the airport, you can take that to the Powell St. station, and then take the Cable Car over the hill and down to Fisherman's Wharf area.

From the Cable Car turntable near Ghirardelli Square, Fort Mason is a very beautiful 10 min walk.


As for Hotels, there are quite a few in the general vicinity, but nothing right next to it. A 10-15 min walk radius should give you plenty of choice.

As for price, well, there is the hangup... It's a very expensive hotel city. BUT you have plenty of time to find a deal.

I travel in from Denver, and the bulk of the budget is taken up by Hotel. It is my sincere belief that it's worth it. Having a chance to see all the neat stuff up close, and (much more important in my mind,) to be able to chat with everybody is priceless.

PM me if you want to talk about trip specifics or general ideas.

[Variac]

All the advice but Jaccos's seems correct

[Zero Cool]

I spent a great deal of time looking online last year and checking out hotels around the area and found quite a few around $100 a night or less that were within a mile or so. i found several for under $80 but they were not reviewed well. there is a Hostel within a couple hundred feet that is very very cheap if you don't mind the communal living thing? the trip to and from the airport is another story. if you are carrying gear the Bart is a little iffy to haul stuff on and off and then there is the whole security element of it...

I would like to suggest that members that will be traveling by car that would be willing to share rides set up a post. Maybe we can set up a group buy at a hotel or something and arrange for a shuttle to and from the event/airport??? I would bet that if we talked to a hotel this far in advance and had an idea of how many people would want rooms etc that we could work out a deal. we used to do that for large work projects.

Zc

[Variac]

Lots of Taxi's , "Airporter" buses, etc. as at any city airport. They''ll take you right to your hotel. Last year there was a huge Oracle convention at the time of our show. Any decent hotel was charging almost $550/ night for the remaining rooms. But that was very unusual. While we are at the same time as AES, The AES show is small relative to that Oracle thing, and there are always conventions in town anyway. And yes, that motel row along Lombard St. is a good place to get a reasonable rate, and the neighborhood is actually less stressful than the area where most of the upscale hotels are.

[dagerman]

Originally Posted by jacco vermeulen

I recall seeing plenty vacant parking spaces in the Castro, only have to move a dike a couple of yards. (on second thought)

What explains your intimate (*chuckles*) knowledge of that particular area?! :-P
Other than the dutchman's expert knowledge of dijks in particular?!
:-D