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I will be getting Lucky Dip for Atlanta and hope for a great view!
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GerH1977
So I’m planning on traveling to Vancouver, LA and Santa Clara from The Netherlands.
Any suggestions for a safe stay in LA?
What’s the best area to stay? Also logistic-wise to the stadium, downtown etc.
Thx!
Grtz
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Hotels booked for Glendale and Vegas! I will just drive home after the LA concerts. I am very excited that I should have 4 concerts this tour! Due to caregiving responsibilities, I can only be away from home one night, so I am pleased to have 4 drivable shows!! I am very EXCITED!!!
where are you staying? I was able to book Mandalay Bay. Booked flights but probably driving. Have to meet for that after show drink again.
The wretched Luxor again. Opted for the short walk to/from the stadium. Hope to meet up with you again, Daspy!
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syrel
I've seen complaints in this thread about Metlife and Sofi stadiums. Can anyone comment on the stadiums in Vegas, Seattle and Vancouver? They are on my potentials list. What is the sound like? (I know no stadium is 'good' for music). And are they easy to get in/out of?
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syrel
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Would the second Chicago date really be on the 27th? Only two days off in between seems tight for them. Selfishly I'm hoping for the 26th so I can at least hit one!
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Was in the pit for Vegas last time and it sounded really good. Levi's sounded good too, just a clusterf@ck getting in and out of there, Was on the floor just beyond the B-stage and it sounded really bad. Its a big hole in the ground.
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We will return to New York after 21 years to attend the two Stones concerts, we will travel from Barcelona. We are very excited! . We have a reservation for 7 nights from May 22 to 29 at the Holiday Inn Express Wood Side Queens Hotel and Suite, (1.246 €), a relatively affordable price in NY for spring. If anyone is interested, there are still rooms at this price.
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GerH1977
So I’m planning on traveling to Vancouver, LA and Santa Clara from The Netherlands.
Any suggestions for a safe stay in LA?
What’s the best area to stay? Also logistic-wise to the stadium, downtown etc.
Thx!
Grtz
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GerH1977
So I’m planning on traveling to Vancouver, LA and Santa Clara from The Netherlands.
Any suggestions for a safe stay in LA?
What’s the best area to stay? Also logistic-wise to the stadium, downtown etc.
Thx!
Grtz
If you go to the tour pages as indexed on the IORR Home Page, say 2021, and click on the city, like Los Angeles CA, for the SoFi Stadium, you will see lots of advices on travel and staying.
There will be new travel pages for all cities linked up in the IORR 2004 tour pages as soon as the tour is being confirmed.
The easiest is to stay near the venue, because after the show is over, some 50,000 people want to go home at the same time. Taxi and UBER prices are crazy, traffic jam, and where there is public transportation, it is jammed.
LA SoFi is just 5-6 km / 3-4 miles from LAX airport hotels. Vancouver any hotel is ok, the venue is near the downtown. Santa Clara is in the valley, near venue is best, but with patience the VTA light rail is ok, it takes you many places.
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For the two shows at Metlife Stadium in NY/NJ it is easiest to stay at some of the nearby hotels. However, during the "old days", where the old stadium on the same location was called Giants Stadium, I remember taking one of many shuttle buses from my Manhattan hotel, I stayed near MSG, and I think the buses left from the Port Authority Bus Station area (between Eighth and Ninth avenues and 40 and 42 st). I don't know if these buses/Coaches do still run. There were plenty of them in the "old" days...
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Santa Clara is in the valley, near venue is best, but with patience the VTA light rail is ok, it takes you many places.
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GerH1977
So I’m planning on traveling to Vancouver, LA and Santa Clara from The Netherlands.
Any suggestions for a safe stay in LA?
What’s the best area to stay? Also logistic-wise to the stadium, downtown etc.
Thx!
Grtz
If you go to the tour pages as indexed on the IORR Home Page, say 2021, and click on the city, like Los Angeles CA, for the SoFi Stadium, you will see lots of advices on travel and staying.
There will be new travel pages for all cities linked up in the IORR 2004 tour pages as soon as the tour is being confirmed.
The easiest is to stay near the venue, because after the show is over, some 50,000 people want to go home at the same time. Taxi and UBER prices are crazy, traffic jam, and where there is public transportation, it is jammed.
LA SoFi is just 5-6 km / 3-4 miles from LAX airport hotels. Vancouver any hotel is ok, the venue is near the downtown. Santa Clara is in the valley, near venue is best, but with patience the VTA light rail is ok, it takes you many places.
Thanks for info. In 2019; in Denver after show took me over 2 hours to get a taxi it was a mess. Finally a couple I was chatting to from St Louis told me to go to their hotel & they ordered me a taxi…took 10 minutes. Not enough taxis not planned good.
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syrel
I've seen complaints in this thread about Metlife and Sofi stadiums. Can anyone comment on the stadiums in Vegas, Seattle and Vancouver? They are on my potentials list. What is the sound like? (I know no stadium is 'good' for music). And are they easy to get in/out of?
thanks
syrel
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SecondSet
Some further hotel advice:
Cleveland
I don't know Cleveland well, and might prefer to stay closer to the venue, perhaps on Playhouse Square, but I note the opportunity to stay in the Marcel Breuer-designed former Ameritrust tower, an Autograph Collection property, or facing it at the Kimpton across the street, both a block from the Southern Tier brewery with some cheaper options nearby..
Chicago
There are some decent to good-value walking-distance options on S. Michigan Ave, assuming Formula One closures don't interfere, perhaps especially the former Essex Inn, now a Le Meridien property. Closer to the center of the Loop, you have the not-that-expensive opportunity among many others to stay in the historic Reliance Building, now a StayPineapple, or the Carbide & Carbon Building, now a Pendry. Personally, I might prefer to be on the Gold Coast, as close to Oak Street Beach as possible, and preferably East of Michigan Ave, though the fairly British boutique is still there just West of it, across from the Four Seasons.
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Seattle: we stayed in Ballard and drove downtown, found street parking walkable to bars/restaurants pre-show, then easy walk to stadium. We were in the Pit and sound was fine, and personally I found it one of the easiest stadiums of the tours I followed to get in and out of. *My experience only, other experiences may differ
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These places keep changing their names. So Lumen is the old CenturyLink, and +1 on this comment. It was a very easy, walkable experience. Approved.
Very walkable from the downtown hotels to Lumen Field in Seattle. Just watch which street you walk on as huge homeless problem, drugs, mental health issues, and they congregate on certain streets that are between downtown and the stadium. I would walk along 1st Avenue as it is very safe.
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These places keep changing their names. So Lumen is the old CenturyLink, and +1 on this comment. It was a very easy, walkable experience. Approved.
Very walkable from the downtown hotels to Lumen Field in Seattle. Just watch which street you walk on as huge homeless problem, drugs, mental health issues, and they congregate on certain streets that are between downtown and the stadium. I would walk along 1st Avenue as it is very safe.
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New Orleans
I'll limit my comments, but note that shuttle buses to the festival run from the Sheraton on Canal St and the river at Toulouse St, so it's best to be walking distance to one or both of those locations, or perhaps a streetcar ride away in the Garden District, where some decent values might be found in a sometimes-nice, but less convenient area. Hotels at the farther reaches of the Warehouse Arts district near the Convention Center may be closer to some nightlife opportunities - others will lie in the opposite direction towards the Faubourg-Marigny - but are a bit less attractive or convenient for reaching the fairgrounds. Nightlife, though, is a significant if secondary part of the Jazz Fest experience, given that the fairgrounds close at 7. My intuition, and it is only that, says that it just might be a good idea to be near the Superdome area after hours (not that that I expect anything inside the stadium), though it is otherwise a bit less attractive, at least further away from Lafayette Square.
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You seem more like a French Quarter guy to me.
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GerH1977
So I’m planning on traveling to Vancouver, LA and Santa Clara from The Netherlands.
Any suggestions for a safe stay in LA?
What’s the best area to stay? Also logistic-wise to the stadium, downtown etc.
Thx!
Grtz
If you go to the tour pages as indexed on the IORR Home Page, say 2021, and click on the city, like Los Angeles CA, for the SoFi Stadium, you will see lots of advices on travel and staying.
There will be new travel pages for all cities linked up in the IORR 2004 tour pages as soon as the tour is being confirmed.
The easiest is to stay near the venue, because after the show is over, some 50,000 people want to go home at the same time. Taxi and UBER prices are crazy, traffic jam, and where there is public transportation, it is jammed.
LA SoFi is just 5-6 km / 3-4 miles from LAX airport hotels. Vancouver any hotel is ok, the venue is near the downtown. Santa Clara is in the valley, near venue is best, but with patience the VTA light rail is ok, it takes you many places.
Thanks for info. In 2019; in Denver after show took me over 2 hours to get a taxi it was a mess. Finally a couple I was chatting to from St Louis told me to go to their hotel & they ordered me a taxi…took 10 minutes. Not enough taxis not planned good.
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You seem more like a French Quarter guy to me.
I might be more of a Carrollton-gender-unspecified, on Mondays especially, but it is a bit less convenient.