2022 Skate America

Are any of the hotels providing shuttles? Being the delicate Southern flower that I am, in case it snows, I have neither the clothes nor the ability to drive in snow. Also, I spent a summer in Boston/Cambridge and driving there is :yikes: Willing to walk 1.5 miles no snow, but with snow, I expect to be carried on a golden, heated palanquin that befits my social standing.

I will probably not be able to go anyway, but JUST IN CASE, I'm looking at logistics between Canada and SKAM.
 
Nothing regarding a shuttle at this time. As there is no official hotel I doubt there will be one. If I do decide to go I will be at the mercy of Lyft/Uber/taxi and I’m willing to share with FSUers at my hotel. I did check Uber and Lyft and for this morning there were cars available within two minutes to go to SCOB from the hotel I am looking at. Who knows how available they will be during the event.
 
If you have a golden, heated palanquin, I demand to join you because I can't handle the cold either. 2016 Worlds with the random snow meant I had to go to Nordstrom Rack and buy a jacket and boots. :lol:

I am waiting on USFS's EMS to update so I can ask about volunteering. Not sure if I should buy tickets yet? Used to get a few free tickets in exchange for volunteering but I have not done it since 2019 4CC.

A friend of mine I met at Worlds in Montpellier and I are going together but she'll have her car! Maybe we can be chauffeurs.
 
Lanie said:
If you have a golden, heated palanquin, I demand to join you because I can't handle the cold either. 2016 Worlds with the random snow meant I had to go to Nordstrom Rack and buy a jacket and boots. :lol:

I am waiting on USFS's EMS to update so I can ask about volunteering. Not sure if I should buy tickets yet? Used to get a few free tickets in exchange for volunteering but I have not done it since 2019 4CC.

A friend of mine I met at Worlds in Montpellier and I are going together but she'll have her car! Maybe we can be chauffeurs.
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They haven't responded to my email about volunteering, but did respond to my dm that they'd get in touch when it's closer.
 
Does anyone have any insight on the seats remaining? I don’t have access to the presale and am getting a little nervous leading up to tomorrow morning. I’m hoping to get 3 seats together in rows 1/2.
 
chowness said:
Does anyone have any insight on the seats remaining? I don’t have access to the presale and am getting a little nervous leading up to tomorrow morning. I’m hoping to get 3 seats together in rows 1/2.
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For the judges side and the side opposite the judges, there's no more seats available for the first few rows. There's still availability on the short ends of the rink. There's about 50 seats available in the first two rows from what I can tell.
 
overedge said:
I bow in awe of this accomplishment :lol:
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No, not an accomplishment but an act of necessity. My first driving lesson started on East 36th street on the approach to the Queens Midtown Tunnel that had four lanes of traffic. The instructor made me cross the four lanes from the extreme left to the extreme right-hand lane and I nearly ran over a traffic cop! Then I drove between 23rd and 42nd street up and down 1st, 2nd and 3rd Avenues! I was so traumatized that I couldn't bring myself to take another lesson for 2 years! But I had to learn for business trips. Btw, it was in December at 5 PM in the dark.

My first time alone in a car after passing my exam was from Manhattan up to the base of the Catskills across the George Washington Bridge and then the NY State Thruway. I had to pull off the highway to get a cup of coffee because I had never driven that far! But I lived....
 
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sk9tingfan said:
Learned to drive in mid-town Manhattan. Boston doesn't faze me relatively speaking.
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I learned to drive in NJ, but in my first year of having a license, drove into Manhattan many times, and for the last few years I lived there, I did a reverse car commute to Yonkers.

Driving in Manhattan is relatively easy if you think like a taxi driver: watch for pedestrians hailing for taxis, and expect the nearest cab to cross three lanes of traffic in front of you and come to a dead stop to pick them up.

I lived in the Boston area for a few years after college, before returning to NY Metro, and I visited multiple times until I moved to Seattle 15 years later. And I learned that there is nothing rational about Boston traffic, where drivers would blow through red lights to cross Storrow Drive and Memorial Drive, major arterials where cars whizzed by, and where traffic lights are simply suggestions.
 
Driving can be stressful in Boston because the road layout is kind of weird and old, and there's a LOT of traffic. GPS helps. But even the other night, going to Stars on Ice at Boston University, it took us half an hour to get into our assigned parking lot because there was so much traffic. And the GPS, while it knew the main roads, didn't know where our specific parking lot entrance was.

Around SCOB in Norwood, the road layout is fairly simple. But patience is required, as there are often traffic backups, particularly at rush hour.
 
PRlady said:
I drove for two years in Jerusalem, where the streets were laid out for camels and most drivers learned their skills in the army. And I still won’t drive in Boston unless it’s absolutely necessary.
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Well, the streets in Boston were laid out for cows, so not too far off....

What got me was so many one-way streets in the city, and they weren't in any sort of grid layout, like NYC or DC. I didn't drive in the city that much but usually got lost when I did. Cambridge was slightly better but still scary.
 
Debbie S said:
Well, the streets in Boston were laid out for cows, so not too far off....

What got me was so many one-way streets in the city, and they weren't in any sort of grid layout, like NYC or DC. I didn't drive in the city that much but usually got lost when I did. Cambridge was slightly better but still scary.
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NYC below Houston and especially in the financial district are based on old cow paths and are more difficult to drive. The grid pattern was proposed in 1811.

www.6sqft.com

On this day in 1811, the Manhattan Street Grid became official | 6sqft

eemed by historians, as the “single most important document in New York City’s development,” the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, which planned the grid system, turns 204 years old this month, as the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation learned.
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Lizziebeth said:
I liked it there. I drove 7 hours to get there so not too bad. The arena was ok and there were decent restaurants and hotels around.
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I liked Hoffman Heights, but the closest hotel was about a 1 mile walk, the closest restaurant was in the Bass Pro Shop (or was it a Cabela). If you did drive (we had one driver in our group of 3), you paid parking each time you left and came back. If you got there early (practice times) there were no parking fees.

The airfare was reasonable, the Uber I had to go to the airport was reasonable.

Having the event in a suburb area has a lot of advantages. Every place will have advantages and disadvantages.
 
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