[Inpycon] Advice on stay in Pune

[Nigel Babu]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Dhananjay Nene
<dhananjay.nene at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.nene at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Vivek Khurana <hiddenharmony at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Ramdas S <ramdaz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > Can someone from Pune set up a page for hotels/accommodation near the
>>> > venue
>>> > with a rough idea of the budgets?Also some details such as how far the
>>> > venue
>>> > is from the airport or station.
>>> >
>>>
>>>  I normally stay at smartInn. It is a B&B hotel on FC road. Clean
>>> rooms and decent price given that it is at the center of the city.
>>> Venue is not far (auto charges about INR 30/-). Airport is about 10Km
>>> and auto will charge INR 180/- to 200/-.
>>>
>> I've heard good things about smart inn. However from what I recollect it
>> has some limitations that people not used to hotels in its class may find
>> very surprising.
>>
>> I'll get a wiki page up with some of the hotels in the area and at least
>> some feedback to the extent people are aware of them by end of the coming
>> week. In the meanwhile a search on "Hotel Apte Road Pune" should help point
>> a number of hotels in the area (note most of them are on the relatively
>> smaller side) especially if you look at the map that shows up.
>>
>> Other roads that would be reasonably close by are :
>>
>> Senapati Bapat Road or S. B. Road (there's a very large but quite pricey
>> Mariott here)
>> Law College Road
>> Fergusson College Road
>> J. M. Road
>>
>> However the density of hotels is probably the largest on Apte Road.
>>
>> To most of these areas venue should be <=4kms, station should be about 5-8
>> kms, airport of course is much further (I don't know kms but takes approx
>> 200-220 by prepaid autorickshaw)
>>
>
> Harshad came up with this nice google map. You'll see vishwabhavan on the
> far left/west (which is the location of the conference) and see a large
> cluster of hotels between FC Road and JM Road (Apte Road runs between them)
> towards the east.
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=hotels&hl=en&ll=18.518923,73.840463&spn=0.016094,0.033023&sll=18.517845,73.83939&sspn=0.015118,0.033023&dq=Vishwabhavan,+loc:+Senapati+Bapat+Road,+Wadarvadi,+Pune,+Maharashtra,+India&radius=1.3&z=16
>
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Is it possible to list all the options on a wiki page with possible
costs too? I'm sure lots of people will appreciate.

Cheers
Nigel