The Long Beach Visitors and Convention Bureau maintains a site at
www.golongbeach.org that lists hotels in and around the city. Be sure to ask
if your hotel of choice is accessible to the water taxi or the tram that
links the City to the Queeen Mary for ease of transporatation.

Pat Garrow

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron May" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 3:00 AM
Subject: Re: Queen Mary


> In a message dated 12/3/00 3:49:43 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << The Queen Mary is half a mile or so from downtown Long Beach,
>  which has a dozen hotels and motels surrounding a convention  >>
>
> This is much like all those tales tour guides spin, but when I lived a 1/4
> mile south of the location of the Queen Mary (not there then), the
notorious
> Pike held the spot. The entire are crawled with sailors, prostitutes, and
> other denizens of the night. But that was in the early 1950s. The area
where
> the hotels are now located is quite upper class now.
>
> Ron May
> Legacy 106, INc.