On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:17:08PM +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 02:42 -0300, Marcela Tiznado wrote: > > Hi! > > Here goes my 3 answers... > > > > > 1. If the airline will land me at MEX at 21:25 local > > > time either evening, should I come 13 May or 14 May? > > > > I think you should arrive the 13 May at night, the 14May Debconf starts. > > > > > 2. Must I arrange my own hotel in Mexico City the first > > > evening? That is, if I land at MEX at 21:25, will it > > > then be too late at night to continue to Oaxtepec? > > > > Im not mexican, but a mexican told me that arriving at 21.25 is better to stay in a hotel near the > > airport to spend the night and early in the morning take the bus to oaxtepec (Oaxtepec HowTo soon in > > the website). > > I asked a similar question earlier and got a good answer from Gabriela, > which follows... > > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 06:54 -0600, Gabriela Manjarrez wrote: > > Hi, Andrew > > > > this is one of the points that the local team is working on it and > > finding different ways to arrive, this will be defined as soon as we > > know more details about arrivals and departures dates. > > > > For the moment, one of the ways is to take a bus (110.00 pesos - > > 10.5396 USD) from the airport (departures every 30 or 40 minutes > > starting at 6:40 am, last bus leaves at 23:30 :/ ) to Cuernavaca > > (about two hours) then somebody picks you up in the Central Casino de > > la Selva to Oaxtepec (like 30 minutes). > > Now in fact my own flight is now due to land at 22:30 on 11th May, but > Debconf is so much fun I don't want to spend any time waiting in Mexico > City! I want to get to Debconf as soon as possible, so my question was > more of a 'Can I get to Oaxtepec if my flight lands at 22:30' and it > seems probably not for me :-( > > Anyway, for now I have booked flights, but not any accommodation for the > night I arrive, in the hope that I won't need it... > > Answers to interesting questions like "what would be the likely costs > for (a) average accommodation near Mexico City Airport and (b) a taxi to > Oaxtepec" might tip me one way or the other. > > > And back to quoting Marcela: > > > > > > 3. Given an answer to the first two questions, is there > > > any reason I should not book flights and pay fares now? > > > > Why not? Go go go get your ticket :) > > Marcela is right: you should probably have already got your ticket. All > the cheap seats will be gone! I guess that depends where you are coming > from though. Thank you for the advice. It is well appreciated. Armed with your advice, I have now bought my ticket. If anyone is curious how much my plane ticket happened to cost, here is the data: Including taxes and fees the round-trip ticket from Roanoke, Virginia (ROA) to Mexico City (MEX) 13 May, returning 22 May, cost US$ 409 (336 euros). I change planes once each way. The rate is a student rate through studentuniverse.com. As it happens, the flight I got lands at MEX at 14:15 local time, so in light of Andrew's, Marcela's and Gabriela's advice, it seems that I need not stay the night in Mexico City, after all. This is good. The last leg of my inbound flight to MEX is United 975 from Chicago O'Hare (ORD). Anyone reading this who plans the same flight leg, contact me. -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave Road Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA +1 540 961 0920, t@b-tk.org, thb@debian.org
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