----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Just remember that for some of these rooms you have to either 1)TRAVEL FOR AN H OUR OR MORE OR 2) BRING YOUR AK-47 TO FIGHT YOU WAY DOWN THE HALL TO YOUR ROOM! Just kidding folks, seriously the best place on one of these lists is a Marriot t in New Jersey - only a short ride away from ALA - just like the Hotel in Cora l Gables that I stayed at in Miami ! Taxi rides = $35.00 plus tip. Let me tel l you about my last taxi ride in New York City sometime. The guy was going to g ive the special Bronx tour as we went LaGuardia to Manhattan. Then he overhe ard my say to my s.o. that I learned to drive on the FDR Expressway. I never go t to my hotel so quick.