Hello, On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Erik Winkels<aerique@xs4all.nl> wrote:

Do any of the people living in Hamburg or anyone that has been there before know of other hotels in the vicinity of Hotel Hafen Hamburg (the one where the ECLM is held)?

Booking.com might help you with that. It has a map feature that'll let you easily see all the hotels around the conference hotel. Also, there's one IBIS hotel within walking distance IIRC, you can find that one directly through ibishotel.com. (And quite likely through booking.com as well.) HTH. -- Luís Oliveira http://student.dei.uc.pt/~lmoliv/

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Erik Winkels<aerique@xs4all.nl> wrote:

I initially mailed this question to Edi but that wasn't very nice of me (to heap all the work on his shoulders).

Do any of the people living in Hamburg or anyone that has been there before know of other hotels in the vicinity of Hotel Hafen Hamburg (the one where the ECLM is held)?

The quality doesn't really matter as long as I can get a room with my own bathroom and as long as I don't have to sleep with cockroaches in my bed.

I'm attaching below a reply that I recently sent to another ECLM participant asking for hotels. And here are two other hotels nearby: http://www.empire-riverside.de/ http://east-hamburg.de/ I really wouldn't expect any cockroaches in one of these four... :) HTH, Edi (on vacation). As someone who lives there, I obviously don't know much about hotels in Hamburg, but by chance I just saw a hotel about a week ago when riding there with my bike which offered rooms starting at 60 Euros. It's in walking distance (five minutes) from the conference and it's a typical chain ("Ibis") hotel, so there shouldn't be any nasty surprises. I haven't used it myself, though. http://www.ibishotel.com/gb/hotel-3680-ibis-hamburg-st-pauli-messe/index.sht... And this one's also not far from the conference and doesn't seem to be expensive. Again, I haven't been there myself. http://www.zleephotels.com/english/