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Is anyone staying over in Madison on Saturday night to celebrate beating Wisconsin? I will be heading to the game from Philadelphia to meet some other BG alum. I was wondering if anyone or most people are staying at a hotel? any suggestions would be helpful. I have been checking out orbitz. thanks

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We (7 of us) are staying at the Sheraton in Madison reserved through the Falcon Club at $85/night. We are staying there Friday and Saturday nights.

.......and 14 of us are also staying at the Madison Sheraton It's gonna be a GOOD time!!

mmr wrote:Is anyone staying over in Madison on Saturday night to celebrate beating Wisconsin? I will be heading to the game from Philadelphia to meet some other BG alum. I was wondering if anyone or most people are staying at a hotel? any suggestions would be helpful. I have been checking out orbitz. thanks

BG rules

Great to hear lots of you will be at the Sheraton. It should be a good party Friday night! We hope to meet other Falcons at bars in the afternoon and early eve before the bash that night. I'll be at the Sheraton with a buddy, but I also have a room at the Fluno Center that I didn't cancel yet. If anybody needs that room due to no vacancy elsewhere, let me know. It's a first class hotel (stayed there before) walking distance to the stadium and in the middle of pub crawl area. Pre-game BG event is at the hotel too.

SW-MI Falcon wrote:

mmr wrote:Is anyone staying over in Madison on Saturday night to celebrate beating Wisconsin? I will be heading to the game from Philadelphia to meet some other BG alum. I was wondering if anyone or most people are staying at a hotel? any suggestions would be helpful. I have been checking out orbitz. thanks

BG rules

Great to hear lots of you will be at the Sheraton. It should be a good party Friday night! We hope to meet other Falcons at bars in the afternoon and early eve before the bash that night. I'll be at the Sheraton with a buddy, but I also have a room at the Fluno Center that I didn't cancel yet. If anybody needs that room due to no vacancy elsewhere, let me know. It's a first class hotel (stayed there before) walking distance to the stadium and in the middle of pub crawl area. Pre-game BG event is at the hotel too.

Joyce and I are staying at the Crown Plaza, part of a '"package deal" thru Priceline...one of our Wisky friends says this is fairly close to the airport but also NOT far away from downtown Madison...so I'm hoping we'll be able to get to the Sheraton on Fri. nite to meet other Falcon Fans...as to Sat.? Wherever the victory party is, we'll try to be.

Crown Plaza, part of a '"package deal" thru Priceline...one of our Wisky friends says this is fairly close to the airport but also NOT far away from downtown Madison.

That's all relative. If it's the one I'm thinking of, I stayed there on a visit to Madison a few years ago. Frankly I thought the Holiday was far nicer, but . . .

nevertheless, the CP on East Wash is about as far away from Camp Randall as you can get and still be in Madison.

Not to worry - it's a straight shot west on E. Wash to the Capitol Square. As I've posted here before, you can park around the Square then stroll west to CR, or take a bus.

If you want to park closer, you can. Go early. Drive around the CR area and look for parking signs. Pay the owner to park in his driveway, or lawn.

After living in the NY area for nearly thirty years, I find driving in Madison to be a snap, but the locals hate anything approaching heavy traffic so they tend to complain about a 15 minute delay.

BigAppleBucky wrote:

Crown Plaza, part of a '"package deal" thru Priceline...one of our Wisky friends says this is fairly close to the airport but also NOT far away from downtown Madison.

That's all relative. If it's the one I'm thinking of, I stayed there on a visit to Madison a few years ago. Frankly I thought the Holiday was far nicer, but . . .

nevertheless, the CP on East Wash is about as far away from Camp Randall as you can get and still be in Madison.

Not to worry - it's a straight shot west on E. Wash to the Capitol Square. As I've posted here before, you can park around the Square then stroll west to CR, or take a bus.

If you want to park closer, you can. Go early. Drive around the CR area and look for parking signs. Pay the owner to park in his driveway, or lawn.

After living in the NY area for nearly thirty years, I find driving in Madison to be a snap, but the locals hate anything approaching heavy traffic so they tend to complain about a 15 minute delay.

Bucky,
Thanks for the update...I've had a hard time with the mapquest stuff finding E. Wash. in relation to CR....this helps a lot....even though it now sounds like it'll be a longer drive.... plan right now to take buses or cabs as opposed to renting a car for just Fri-Sun. That may change, but I think we'll do it that way for now.

Class of 61 wrote:Bucky,
Thanks for the update...I've had a hard time with the mapquest stuff finding E. Wash. in relation to CR....this helps a lot....even though it now sounds like it'll be a longer drive.... plan right now to take buses or cabs as opposed to renting a car for just Fri-Sun. That may change, but I think we'll do it that way for now.

Head down diagonally left on mapquest, That hotel is about 5 miles away. I am staying in the same one

We got rooms at the Double Tree (i think it use to be something else) but appears to be a few blocks from the stadium and close to the state street bars. They are $135 sat night and they have rooms avilable still. if any one is interested, their number is 608-251-5511. some people mentioned there is a BG event before the game? where is this? also, is there an event scheduled for celebrating after the game?? does everyone have a bar in mind to meet after the game? im going to be a target at the game wearing all orange!!!

Metz wrote:

Class of 61 wrote:Bucky,
Thanks for the update...I've had a hard time with the mapquest stuff finding E. Wash. in relation to CR....this helps a lot....even though it now sounds like it'll be a longer drive.... plan right now to take buses or cabs as opposed to renting a car for just Fri-Sun. That may change, but I think we'll do it that way for now.

Head down diagonally left on mapquest, That hotel is about 5 miles away. I am staying in the same one

Metz,
Maybe we can "share a ride" to the game...don't know if you're driving yourself, but if not , sharing a cab beats paying for it by yourself.

mmr wrote:We got rooms at the Double Tree (i think it use to be something else) but appears to be a few blocks from the stadium and close to the state street bars. They are $135 sat night and they have rooms avilable still. if any one is interested, their number is 608-251-5511. some people mentioned there is a BG event before the game? where is this? also, is there an event scheduled for celebrating after the game?? does everyone have a bar in mind to meet after the game? im going to be a target at the game wearing all orange!!!

We're at the DoubleTree as well. $135? How many people is that? They quoted us at $165 a night for "four" people. We'll be there Friday night, leaving Monday morning. There was a thread here not long ago about spots for a Friday night bar, I'm sure something can be arranged for Saturday night as well... win or lose, I'm gonna have a blast!

The University/Alumni Assoc. has an event either Friday night or Saturday AM, but it's $25 AND a cash bar. No thanks.

While I'm here, do either of our Wisky "tour guides" (BigApple and Brian) know of any decent golf courses around? We might be lugging the sticks with us and had looked at the University course, but might try to find something cheaper to play a round Friday, Sunday or Monday.

"...that's just PS2-insane -- and he was only a Sophomore!" -Boise State fan

cool! i've been quoted!

i remember posting that on broncocountry about omar awhile back. the guy's a flat-out gamer, and i can't wait to see him on the Blue.

though Zabransky's not bad, either.

it's refreshing to stop by an opposing team's board and see such positive football talk. our upcoming game with Georgia has unleashed a large number of dawg trolls on our board reminding us of how Idaho is only good for farming and hockey and how our cute little team won't last three minutes in that thick-as-our-skulls humidity in athens and where is Boise isn't that in canada?

anyway, stop by our board any time and say hi...
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would be great to start chatting with you guys about our home opener against BGSU instead of our away opener against UGA.
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1boisebro wrote:

"...that's just PS2-insane -- and he was only a Sophomore!" -Boise State fan

cool! i've been quoted!

Yeah, and I still haven't gotten my payment for that, buddy!

It's cool to have such big games against "big schools" and I think we've only had two or three serious "trolls" come through here. (At least since I came around in 2003.) If you guys ever play Oklahoma and a guy named "CaliSooner" comes knockin, get your ball bats out early!

TG1996 wrote:

1boisebro wrote:

"...that's just PS2-insane -- and he was only a Sophomore!" -Boise State fan

cool! i've been quoted!

Yeah, and I still haven't gotten my payment for that, buddy!

It's cool to have such big games against "big schools" and I think we've only had two or three serious "trolls" come through here. (At least since I came around in 2003.) If you guys ever play Oklahoma and a guy named "CaliSooner" comes knockin, get your ball bats out early!

The funniest/worst/best (all depending on perspective) had to be the Sheriff guy from USF a few years ago . . psycho!

Golf...

University Ridge is a really nice course, and there are a couple others that you could look into as well, BlackHawk and Yahara (best man from my wedding was a groundskeeper there). There is one more, where my sister used to a beverage cart girl at (no jokes, please) while she was at UW, but I can't remember the name. I'll give her a call and she could probably give some good info on it.

I'll post more on this later, and hopefully can put something up about the bars around the stadium for Saturday morning festivites, since the bars on State Street usually don't open early enough.