[Inpycon] Advice on stay in Pune

[Dhananjay Nene]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.nene at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Vivek Khurana <hiddenharmony at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Ramdas S <ramdaz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Can someone from Pune set up a page for hotels/accommodation near the
>> venue
>> > with a rough idea of the budgets?Also some details such as how far the
>> venue
>> > is from the airport or station.
>> >
>>
>>  I normally stay at smartInn. It is a B&B hotel on FC road. Clean
>> rooms and decent price given that it is at the center of the city.
>> Venue is not far (auto charges about INR 30/-). Airport is about 10Km
>> and auto will charge INR 180/- to 200/-.
>>
>> I've heard good things about smart inn. However from what I recollect it
> has some limitations that people not used to hotels in its class may find
> very surprising.
>
> I'll get a wiki page up with some of the hotels in the area and at least
> some feedback to the extent people are aware of them by end of the coming
> week. In the meanwhile a search on "Hotel Apte Road Pune<http://www.google.com/search?q=hotel+apte+road+pune>"
> should help point a number of hotels in the area (note most of them are on
> the relatively smaller side) especially if you look at the map that shows
> up.
>
> Other roads that would be reasonably close by are :
>
>    - Senapati Bapat Road or S. B. Road (there's a very large but quite
>    pricey Mariott here)
>    - Law College Road
>    - Fergusson College Road
>    - J. M. Road
>
> However the density of hotels is probably the largest on Apte Road.
>
> To most of these areas venue should be <=4kms, station should be about 5-8
> kms, airport of course is much further (I don't know kms but takes approx
> 200-220 by prepaid autorickshaw)
>
>

Harshad came up with this nice google map. You'll see vishwabhavan on the
far left/west (which is the location of the conference) and see a large
cluster of hotels between FC Road and JM Road (Apte Road runs between them)
towards the east.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=hotels&hl=en&ll=18.518923,73.840463&spn=0.016094,0.033023&sll=18.517845,73.83939&sspn=0.015118,0.033023&dq=Vishwabhavan,+loc:+Senapati+Bapat+Road,+Wadarvadi,+Pune,+Maharashtra,+India&radius=1.3&z=16
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