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From: Doug Smith W9WI on 16 May 2007 11:20
On Wed, 16 May 2007 13:59:40 +0000, AZ Nomad wrote:
>>What about airport to hotel service provided by hotel vans? In many major
>>cities those exist.
>
> Are there any cities at all where those don't exist?

Las Vegas?

Seriously, I didn't see many when I was there a few weeks ago. There may
have been one or two hotels represented.

There were plenty of independent hotel shuttles. Same kind of vehicle as
used for a hotel-owned shuttle but you bought tickets (kinda like a bus)
and they stopped at multiple hotels.

The Monorail would be an excellent solution except it doesn't go to the
airport. Gee, I wonder why not?<g>...

From: Hugh Brodie on 16 May 2007 12:50
<tariq.1.rahim(a)spamgourmet.com> wrote in message
news:1179271424.726027.193290(a)h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> The last I heard, you have to take a shuttle or other high-priced
> option to reach the Quebec City airport. The city has buses but none
> of them reaches the airport.
>
> Is this still true? A major bummer.
>

The closest bus route which goes downtown would be the 80 - there is a stop
at the corner of Notre-Dame and Saint-Jacques (it's a 50-minute trip, and
30-minute headways). However - it's close to a mile from the airport
terminal building. (might be a nice walk if the weather is good and you
don't have much to carry)


From: DevilsPGD on 16 May 2007 13:44
In message <pan.2007.05.16.15.21.53.758337(a)invalid.nospam> Doug Smith
W9WI <w9wi(a)invalid.nospam> wrote:

>On Wed, 16 May 2007 13:59:40 +0000, AZ Nomad wrote:
>>>What about airport to hotel service provided by hotel vans? In many major
>>>cities those exist.
>>
>> Are there any cities at all where those don't exist?
>
>Las Vegas?
>
>Seriously, I didn't see many when I was there a few weeks ago. There may
>have been one or two hotels represented.
>
>There were plenty of independent hotel shuttles. Same kind of vehicle as
>used for a hotel-owned shuttle but you bought tickets (kinda like a bus)
>and they stopped at multiple hotels.

Sure, Vegas doesn't generally have hotel shuttles, instead it's an
independent service. This makes sense, given the close proximity of
most of the hotels on the strip to each other.

Same concept.

>The Monorail would be an excellent solution except it doesn't go to the
>airport. Gee, I wonder why not?<g>...

As I understand it, the monorail was designed for hotel/casino employees
to get to work without having to drive to the hotel where they work, it
was never designed to be a general tourist transportation system.

In this context, not going to the airport makes sense.

--
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be born in utter poverty and end up a rich white man?
Only in America!
From: Alan Pollock on 17 May 2007 02:46
In rec.travel.usa-canada Doug Smith W9WI <w9wi(a)invalid.nospam> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007 13:59:40 +0000, AZ Nomad wrote:
> >>What about airport to hotel service provided by hotel vans? In many major
> >>cities those exist.
> >
> > Are there any cities at all where those don't exist?

> Las Vegas?

> Seriously, I didn't see many when I was there a few weeks ago. There may
> have been one or two hotels represented.

> There were plenty of independent hotel shuttles. Same kind of vehicle as
> used for a hotel-owned shuttle but you bought tickets (kinda like a bus)
> and they stopped at multiple hotels.


That's what I took to the Strat when I was there a few months ago. On the way
back we took a cab for around 8 bucks. Had I known I wouldn't have bothered
with the Omnibus, which seemed to stop at every hotel in town before hitting
the Strat. Bus took 45 minutes, cab took under 10.

Had a great time by the way. Gambled once for about a minute in the entire 4
days. Gamble in Vegas? Why? There's so else much to do, all much less boring.
Nex
From: SMS on 17 May 2007 04:47
Hugh Brodie wrote:
> <tariq.1.rahim(a)spamgourmet.com> wrote in message
> news:1179271424.726027.193290(a)h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>> The last I heard, you have to take a shuttle or other high-priced
>> option to reach the Quebec City airport. The city has buses but none
>> of them reaches the airport.
>>
>> Is this still true? A major bummer.
>>
>
> The closest bus route which goes downtown would be the 80 - there is a stop
> at the corner of Notre-Dame and Saint-Jacques (it's a 50-minute trip, and
> 30-minute headways). However - it's close to a mile from the airport
> terminal building. (might be a nice walk if the weather is good and you
> don't have much to carry).

A mile isn't bad. I remember in Korea where the Gimpo "airport" subway
station is located quite a long walk from the terminal but at least it
was all underground.

I notice that the Quebec RTC site is only in French. I thought Canada
had a law that everything needed to be in both French and English.
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