The ANA: What a disgrace! Here's what YOUR ANA does for you.

seriously, Im sure the hotel can arrange transportation for you, they might even have scheduled transportation that goes from the hotel to the venue every so often.

Longacre always travels with a chauffeur.

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<< <i>Who needs to work up a sweat walking over there?

Maybe you should get in better shape.

I worked up enough of one signing my coins over to Heritage yesterday.

Gee, you gave them up now for the FUN show? >>



Rob...it's like breaking up with a great girlfriend. You have to make it fast and sweet. I want then out of my sight because it will be harder later. The deal is done, take the coins and start pounding the drums. And I'm in good enough shape to...............................ah...................never mind.

We'll have OUR battle on 9/20 in Chicago. >>



You are rooting for the Bears? Yes, you better be ing.

I do see your point. Once you break the physical bond between you and the coins, it is much easier to break the emotional bond (or something like that). I minored in Psychiatry.

The last thing the ANA did for me was to sell my email address. Yay for SPAM.

<< <i>What's stopping you from booking a room at a closer hotel? >>



Good point. As a rule, I never (ever, ever) use convention reservation service to book hotel.

<< <i>Longacre always travels with a chauffeur. >>




You really should not refer to your wife in this manner. I have it on good authority that she lurks here to keep tabs on you...

That statement may very well end up costing you a full treatment day at the spa...or worse yet...a trip to Tiffany's...

<< <i>What's stopping you from booking a room at a closer hotel? >>



The only one I found that was actually close is a Holiday Inn, which I understand is full.

I stayed at the Wilshire Grand Tuesday night, and will not return. The rooms are so small that there is not room for a small dresser, the ventilation was poor, and I think I heard every toilet flush in the hotel all night. Then, the tapping and hammerring started around 6:00 am. All this for a mere $200/nite with the tax. No thanks.

The only positives is that there is a free ANA shuttle bus in the moring and evening hours. For the public transit adventerous, the 7th Street Metro Rail Station is across the street form the hotel, and I did note Transit Police and LAPD foot and Segway patrols in the station. I did not feel confortable using the Metro Rail Station at the Convention Center, as it is an open platorm two very long blocks away in a marginal area of town, and no police patrol. And, there is a Starbucks next door too.

<< <i>good thing we don't collect military hardware...tanks, cannons, amphibious vehicles & such.

that could work up a real sweat. >>



Yea but you wouldn't have to worry about being robbed on the way to the center.

I assume you big dogs all know this, but the "special convention rates" are typically 20% higher than standard and goes toward kickbacks and room comps for the hosting firm (in this case the ANA). You can complain, but that's how that biz works. Any hotel mentioned anywhere in official convention lit is usually playing. Check the Wilshire's regular rates for next week and you'll see what I mean. The last conference I went to in Orlando I checked at the last minute and got in the Peabody (the one with the ducks) at 50% off due to cancellations.

<< <i>Someone probably got a good kickback from the hotel. I bet the ANA officers are not paying to stay there. >>



RYK---Do you have any proof of your accusation?

You shoulda been here last week -- about 15 degrees warmer than it is now....

<< <i>Who needs to work up a sweat walking over there?

Maybe you should get in better shape.

I worked up enough of one signing my coins over to Heritage yesterday.

Gee, you gave them up now for the FUN show? >>



Yep. That's what I was wondering. Seems kinda dumb unless its part of a settlement.


NEVERMIND

<< <i>If you do not have enough life experience to understand how things work in the real world, well, I feel sorry for you. >>

<< <i>What's stopping you from booking a room at a closer hotel? >>



My thoughts exactly.

Perhaps the ANA should have set up a cot for you right there in the lobby at the bourse entrance.

<<<Longacre always travels with a chauffeur. >>>

Ever have an Ahhhhh Ha moment?

Longacre is Thurston Howell III.

<< <i>The official designated hotel for the LA ANA sho is the Wishire Grand downtown.

It's just a mere one mile plus form the convention center!

Now what genius process figured this out. To walk that far, with coins of value, in 85%+ heat....through an evolving but not yet good area? This stinks. There are connectiong hotels all over the center but they found one a mile away. Hummm....wonder what the real rates are?

It stink and this is why I always say "who gives a crap about the ANA". What have they done for me today? >>



I'm guessing the OP has never been to the L.A. Convention Center area. If he has then he probably has not explored the area around the convention center. Verifiable with Google Maps, there is not a single hotel that is attached to the convention center. There is only one hotel, a Holiday Inn, that is within a half mile of the convention center. That Holiday Inn, needless to say, is not an impressive place.

There is a Ritz-Carlton under construction that is very close by, but that hotel is not yet open.

Perhaps the facts should be known before the rush to criticism is commenced.

I'm with StG on this one. I'm staying at the WG and it is just way too far away from the convention center. I will certainly check out the "official hotel" for geography before booking for the Boston ANA next year. At least they have free wifi and free breakfast (assuming you can get to the 15th floor).

As for the Steelers........Mr. Cutler will carve them up good