General Suburban Updates and Rumours

[plam]

I'm fine with going into a city using my GPS if I have to drive to a city, which I'd rather avoid (and I can avoid that with most of the cities I go to). But ok, so you are at the hotel. Then what do you do the next morning? Now you're isolated near the highway.

For me, usually I go to a meeting the next morning.   So our visitors typically stay at the Crown Plaza, from where they can walk to our office.  If there are no hotels within walking distance, then it doesn't matter so much anyway.

In the old days, 10+ years ago, when I worked in Waterloo, most of our visitors stayed at Waterloo Inn.  It was reasonably convenient, and there were few alternatives unless you were to stay way down in Kitchener.  The situation has totally changed now, though.

Yes, conferences are also a thing where it's good to be able to walk from the hotel to the conference and also around the city. Waterloo doesn't have so many good conference facilities though.

I did confuse the Waterloo Inn with the Waterloo Hotel once and stayed at the Waterloo Inn (oops). Yes, as we've been discussing, with a car you can get from the Waterloo Inn to elsewhere, but otherwise it's not so good.

To visit an office in uptown or downtown it does seem to me like the central options are best.