MiniYoda wrote:
cards wrote:
MiniYoda wrote:
As for hotels, most of them are on the interstate system, so driving is safe. There is an extended-day hotel between the two bars if you drive the safe/long way.
Driving is safe. Really? How many people are killed on the Gene Snyder every year?
Answer - several.
The most recent year for which I found stats is 1999. Six died on the Gene Snyder. Five more died on I-64.To me, if you are going to do something like this then hotels need to be in walking distance. The only option you have is Springhurst with Old Chicago and BW3 within walking distance of two hotels. Plus, Old Chicago and the new BW3 can handle large groups of players. I am not a fan of these locations. But, this is the only option to keep players safe and out of trouble. Unless you hire a shuttle service, the other locations would be risky and I would not want to held responsible if someone got arrested or worse hurt in an accident. Just my thoughts.
Cards, with all due respect, sir, I'm not really organizing anything. I'm basically saying "Hey...anyone want to come to Louisville on the first weekend of November?" If there is interest, I will talk to the owners of 30Red and Bungalow Joes to see if they want to host people from out of town to play trivia and perhaps have a battle of the bars. That way they can set aside a large table in the middle of College football season and make sure they have a large supply of working boxes....and beer.
I can drive some people around the city to visit other (BW3/Old Chicago) places, but I haven't given thought to one place for everyone close to a hotel. I won't hire a shuttle service. We are all adults here and make our own decisions. If someone wants to drink, cut off early, and drive, that is their choice. Likewise they can drink to their heart's/liver's content and have someone else drive them or call a cab. I can also provide a phone number for a taxi to take them around, and there might be people (such as a friend of Cloudy's) who don't drink at all and can drive people.
What I meant by "safe" was that there is a limited access highway that can feed drivers to I-64, which has a lot of hotels. Yes, there are a lot of accidents every year on the "gene slider", and I don't condone driving under the influence. In no time is anyone safe on the road, considering the other idiots who drink and drive and can hit us, even if we are 100% sober.
I'm just tossing out an idea, and your idea of a home base close to a hotel is a great idea. If we can get the pizza place to add trivia, it is close to a cluster of hotels, although not walking distance, but not very far either. I appreciate your suggestion, and if this does work out this time, I hope you can join us.
MiniYoda
MiniYoda, I checked out the geography.
Both 30Red and Bungalow Joe's look like really nice places to play. The trouble is that neither is close to a hotel. The extended stay hotel you mention, InTown Suites, is 2.0 and 3.3 miles from the two sites, and minimum stay is a week. Also, the InTown Suites site reviews are mixed and the neighborhood is high-crime (thefts, not assaults or murders). Nicer hotels are available near I-64--I've stayed there--but those hotels are about eight miles away up the city streets and a dozen miles away via the freeways. The taxi fare is about $30 each way according to TaxiFareFinder.com.
My memories of Louisville traffic are not good. Traffic reports suggested that bad traffic was the norm for any weekday afternoon. I had planned to go play Buzztime, and I had driven about five miles west on I-64 towards Old Chicago 7052, but I literally went back to my hotel because I didn't dare drive with as much as a single beer in my system in that dense, unpredictable traffic. The ten-mile round trip took me over an hour at late lunchtime. I would be hesitant to attend a get-together in Louisville with a site not adjacent to a hotel, if for no reason other than traffic.
Barring some shuttle plan, 30Red and Bungalow Joe's don't look like good sites for a get-together. Even Old Chicago 7052 is a half-mile from the nearest hotel I can find, close enough for me but not for everybody. Louisville may not be the best site for a gathering, just due to the distance of the better sites from hotels.