From: "Michael Nelson" <mike.nelson at seahunt.org>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: A DC hotels question
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:11:39 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted White [mailto:twhite8 at cox.net]
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 1:40 PM
> To: WSFA members
> Subject: [WSFA] Re: A DC hotels question
>
> I wonder about Crystal City.  Alexis picked a CC hotel for the 1994
> Corflu (Corflu NoVa) which turned out to be actively hostile
> to all room
> parties.  Seems airline crews stay in the CC hotels, along
> with business
> travelers.  Many go to bed early and get up early and they are not a
> good fit for fans wandering the halls and room parties.

Didn't the government (Navy?) move out of a fairly large
amount of Crystal City office space sometime in the last
year or so?  If there's a lot of empty office space now,
maybe the hotels are feeling a bit more hospitable?

It was my impression from taking some courses in Crystal
City that the underground shops and restaurants become
a ghost town after 5 pm and on weekends.  Is that the
case?  Are there enough condo dwellers, etc. to keep
businesses open in the evenings and on weekends?