On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 09:44:13AM -0700, Ole Jacobsen wrote:
I have been told that there was a free bus every ten minutes from the
MECC to central Maastricht. I did not use it so I cannot say if this
is accurate or not, but assuming it is, would that satisfy? (The ride
to town would have been about 5 minutes).
Since the entire thread has been dominated by competing anecdotes: I
used the bus every day either coming or going, because I was at a
hotel near the Maastricht central station. I also walked on some
occasions.
I found the bus to be convenient and pleasant. There was more than
one route that worked. I even took a long route one time, on purpose,
just to see what I wasn't getting to experience in the rest of the
city. The fastest route took me to my hotel (Eden, IIRC) in under 5
minutes. The drivers all spoke excellent English and were friendly
and helpful. Half the time, the bus looked like a bar BoF without the
bar.
I ran into another participant on the bus one day who told me he used
the bus to go and get lunch every day rather than hanging around the
MECC. He had plenty of time, he said, in the 1.5 hours. This was,
alas, on Thursday or Friday, so I didn't try it myself. Given the
time it took me to get to my hotel, and the five or six restaurants I
spied immediately around it, I suspect it would have worked.
I'm finding the complaints about the remoteness of the venue in
Maastricht to be contrary to my own experience, but I didn't arrive
late due to a delayed flight and I didn't have to get back to the MECC
area in the evening.
A
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