
Anyone here familiar enough with Monterey, CA to tell me what hotels in a reasonable price range (i.e. less than $75/night) are somewhere near the Monterey Conference Center? I will indeed have a car, so "somewhere near" can translate to a 15-20 minute drive during morning and evening rush hour type traffic.
Turns out if I'm flying into San Francisco and renting a car to drive to Monterey, it costs less overall because I can stay and a decently-priced hotel instead of paying the $179! per night conference hotel price, so that's what I'm doing. Got the plane tickets and the car reservation and everything!
And of the people who are either living near San Francisco, or are attending Yaoicon and getting into town on Wednesday or Thursday (October 27) - if there are any since I really have no clue who-all reads this and lives near or plans to attend it - will anyone be available to go hang out and do lunch/touristy things all Thursday? Because my hotel room for the con is already arranged and it's available to me for Wednesday night if I want it, so I'm debating driving up to SF Wednesday evening after the Monterey convention is over and spending all day Thursday doing SF, since I haven't been there since I was nine, and it would be nice to have company. :D (I have to turn the car in before 2PM Thursday, so it won't be available, but considering the public transport in SF is significantly better than anywhere in Texas ... not a prob. XD)