Lodging information
We encourage folks to collaborate on their own room-sharing plans. (You can see below who's already planning to come, and contact folks you know.)
Primary Hotel: Ithaca Airport Ramada Inn
This year, we've got a block of rooms at the Ithaca Airport Ramada Inn, a short drive from the Ithaca Airport and the Cayuga Heights Fire Station, our meeting location. Room reservations will be accepted up to September 11th, 2011. Our group rate is $109.95/night plus tax. If you will be arriving late, need a rollaway (extra charge), or need a first floor room, please mention these when making your reservation. After September 11th, any remaining rooms will be put back into the regular inventory for sale to the general public. Once that date passes, we can't guarantee that the hotel will have any rooms available as this is a very popular time of year for out-of-town visitors. Also, if getting a non-smoking room is important to you, be sure to request it when you make your reservation.
To reserve a room at the Ramada Inn, call 607-257-3100 or the national reservation line at 1-888-272-6232. Make sure to ask to be part of the Accord room block. You can reserve online at http://www.the.ramada.com/ithaca05091 using group code CGCORD.
Rooms are reserved for Friday and Saturday nights,
September 23rd and 24th. Arriving Thursday or staying until Monday is unlikely to pose a problem, but making such arrangements early is a good idea.
PLEASE: When you reserve one or more rooms, please
let us know (a) which hotel and (b) how
many rooms. That knowledge will help us to know how our blocks are
doing and whether we might need additional rooms.
Schedule of Events
Friday: Casual afternoon gathering. We'll use the Ramada's lobby and lounge area as our "base of operations" from late afternoon on. You can meet us there, have a bite to eat, and relax with a beverage, etc.
Fri 6:00pm: Dinner at the Glenwood Pines. We'll be ordering from the menu, with each person responsible for paying for what he or she orders and eats. Please chip in if you share in appetizers, don't forget to add up everything you ordered personally, and as a good rule of thumb, add at least 25% of the total to cover tax and tip. Dinner here typically costs $8-15 per person; if you have $10 in your pocket, don't order a $8 dish and a $2 drink.
Sat 9:30am: Breakfast. If you're interested, meet for breakfast for something to eat before we get together for the Glen Convoy. Mmmmm... yummy. We recommend Ithaca Bakery (formerly CTB Appetizers or Collegetown Bagels) in the Triphammer Mall. Please plan breakfast such that you can be on time at the Ramada before 11.
Sat 10:45am: Gather for Glen convoy. Show up before 11am at the Ramada Inn parking lot on North Triphammer Road near the Shops at Ithaca Mall. Please be GASSED UP and ready to go by 11. We will leave directly for the Glen, do lunch at Burger King when we get there, then hike, which will take most of the day.
After we return, there will be some quiet time to hang out at the park or clean
up before....
Sat. 7:00pm: Dinner at The Rose. We've been hoping for a good alternative for Saturday night's group dinner since Billy Bob Jack's closed several years ago, and we think we've found one. The Rose expanded last year, and now has a big enough dining room to support groups. It's just across Route 13 from the Ramada, in the Triphammer Mall.
Our dinner will include a choice of several entrees, dinner salad, baked potato, and non-alcoholic beverage, for a total price per person (including tax and gratuity) of $18, a drop from recent years. The entree choices include sweet bourbon or fire grilled chicken, grilled salmon, petite cut of prime rib, Mediterranean chicken pasta, or Mediterranean vegetarian pasta.
Sat. After Dinner: Whatever you please. Go sleep off the food. Go to
various pubs if you're over 21. There will probably be something for the
under-21 crowd to do. Last year, many of us went to Purity Ice Cream for dessert.
Sunday 10:00am: Brunch at Ramada. Cost: About $11 per person, including tax and tip. We really do need to know whether you'll be at brunch, so there's enough room for everyone who's coming and so we don't have to pay out of our pockets for those who don't show up!
