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From: Sarah Banick on 17 May 2007 10:08

"Doug Smith W9WI" <w9wi(a)invalid.nospam> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.05.17.12.21.00.347121(a)invalid.nospam...
> On Thu, 17 May 2007 06:46:32 +0000, Alan Pollock wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> At least with the line I used, you can buy a round-trip ticket. For some
> reason they wanted 24 hours advance notice of your return trip. (?! - I
> can MAYBE understand that if you're at some tiny place halfway to Pahrump,
> but for a place on the Strip, why?) Took about 20 minutes, could be
> better, could be worse. Same hotel.
>

I've been in several cities with that type of service. They want advance
notice so they can plan the logistics of the route. They combine pickups
within x minutes/hour or so of each other, but the route is different
everyday depending on need.


From: SMS on 17 May 2007 12:38
Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> "Doug Smith W9WI" <w9wi(a)invalid.nospam> wrote in message
> news:pan.2007.05.16.15.21.53.758337(a)invalid.nospam...
>> 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?
>
> Other than Vegas, you have to get pretty far down on the population
> scale before they disappear.

San Francisco. I don't think any hotels in San Francisco have free
shuttles. There are some for hotels in the towns near the airport such
as Millbrae.

It's similar in many large cities. The hotels right by the airport will
have a shuttle, but the hotels in the downtown area and resort areas
will not.
From: sechumlib on 17 May 2007 13:10
On 2007-05-17 12:38:24 -0400, SMS <scharf.steven(a)geemail.com> said:

> San Francisco. I don't think any hotels in San Francisco have free
> shuttles. There are some for hotels in the towns near the airport such
> as Millbrae.

But you can get there by BART, can't you?

From: James Robinson on 17 May 2007 16:22
gl4316(a)yahoo.com (gl4316(a)yahoo.com) wrote:

> James Robinson <wascana(a)212.com> wrote:
>
>> No public transportation serves the airport, other than taxis or
>> limos. The taxi fare is a flat rate of $30 into the city. There is
>> no shuttle, that I'm aware of.
>
> What about airport to hotel service provided by hotel vans? In many
> major cities those exist.

There are perhaps some to hotels near the airport, but I don't think there
are any to the hotels near the tourist area close to the old town, which is
about 10 miles from the airport.

In looking at the listings for the major hotels, they only list taxis or
rental cars as transportation options.

From: Nobody on 17 May 2007 23:53
On Thu, 17 May 2007 08:43:08 -0400, sechumlib <sechumlib(a)liberal.net>
wrote:

>On 2007-05-17 04:47:36 -0400, SMS <scharf.steven(a)geemail.com> said:
>
>> 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.
>
>Not in Quebec.

Anything in Federal jurisdiction does have to be bilingual, even in La
Belle Province.
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