Alasdair. The Queen Mary is half a mile or so from downtown Long Beach,
which has a dozen hotels and motels surrounding a convention center. To
find out more, look at the golongbeach.org (or maybe it's .com) website,
which will give you a bunch of hotels at a wide range of prices. Unless
it's pouring rain, the walk to the ship will not be unpleasant. I'll be
staying at one of those too, but haven't decided which yet.
mitch allen

amb110 wrote:

> I'm trying to find ways of keeping the costs down during the long trip
> to California this January, and my question is:
>
> While the rest of you are enjoying the opulence of the wealthy
> capitalist elite, can I stay in steerage class with the majority of the
> passengers?
>
> (the literal-minded should be warned that I'm not serious.  Not
> entirely, anyway).
>
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