# PragueDope! Oct. 22-24 Final preps and info. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 12, 2004, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789 "2004-10-12T06:26:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/1 "2004-10-12T06:26:29Z")
Original thread [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=259565&page=1&pp=50) Where: Prague When: October 22-24, but a few people will be there before and after. What: Beer, looking at old buildings, beer, museums, beer, Old Town Square, beer, Charles Bridge, beer, Wenceslas Square, beer, boat trip, beer, the dancing building, beer, galleries, beer, Mozart, beer, Jewish Quarter, beer, good food and some beer to go with it. Why: Because you want to be part of the cool crowd of international Dopers. Who, so far: Coldfire and Heloise (pension) Maastricht and Jack (pension) wolfstu (pension but needs a roomie) curly chick and kferr (hotel) Me. (home) There is still one room left at the pension. There are direct flights to PRague from all over Europe for around $250 roundtrip. UK Dopers can choose Stansted or Manchester with Easyjet, bmibaby or BA. Hostels and other hotels can be found for you last minute types Anything else? -Tcat ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/2 "2004-10-12T06:57:53Z")
> [@Tomcat](#): > > Why: Because you want to be part of the cool crowd of international Dopers. **Tomcat** forgot to mention that Prague is widely considered to be in the top-five of Most Beautiful European Cities. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/3 "2004-10-12T07:23:10Z")
So, you were able to set us up at the pension then, TC? Parking included? You’re a gem, Tommie! 🙂 Oh, one more thing I was meaning to ask. When we’re in Prague, will there be any beer, perchance? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/4 "2004-10-12T07:24:31Z")
Oh, bollocks. Forgot to check the subscribe thingamajig. _checks box_ ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/5 "2004-10-12T12:02:26Z")
> [@Tomcat](#): > > Anything else? > -Tcat Yes: Somebody else please pleaseplease come to the pension, so we can split a room! If you share a room with me, you pay the low, low price of EUR 55 for the _whole_ weekend\*. Your package includes the exclusive PragueDope activities, hanging out with such celebrities as **Tomcat** , **Maastricht** , and more, and two nights in a room with **wolfstu** , who doesn’t scream, steal, or argue (much). Book now! There’s only one spot left for this limited-time offer! :: Tries to look helpless and lonely :: 😉 - Friday and Saturday nights. (Anybody know how far ahead you need to book to have a chance of getting a hostel?) ---
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/6 "2004-10-12T12:51:18Z")
Yeah, you all set **Coldie**. **wolfstu** , did you check the email address I sent you? Just reserve something now, you can always cancel. It is a cool hostel right near Old Town Square with a cool history. -Tcat ---
**Author:** ![curly\_chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@curly\_chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curly_chick)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/7 "2004-10-12T13:10:09Z")
Just subscribing to this thread so as I can check the progress. There’s going to be beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer? :eek: Well, I should think so too! ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/8 "2004-10-12T14:08:17Z")
> [@Tomcat](#): > > Yeah, you all set **Coldie**. > > **wolfstu** , did you check the email address I sent you? Just reserve something now, you can always cancel. It is a cool hostel right near Old Town Square with a cool history. > > -Tcat Yes, sorry, I missed the tail end of the old thread, initally. I’ve sent them an email in English and French - I hope one of those will do. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/9 "2004-10-12T14:57:46Z")
Isn’t CATS playing in Prague now? You might want to check it out. I wish I could be there for that. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/10 "2004-10-12T15:11:49Z")
Unless CATS is some sort of obscure Czech beer brand, not on your feckin’ life, ma’am. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/11 "2004-10-12T15:35:32Z")
I don’t like beer.\* \*this is a big fat lie, I LOVE beer! ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/12 "2004-10-12T15:36:34Z")
> [@Coldfire](#): > > Unless CATS is some sort of obscure Czech beer brand, not on your feckin’ life, ma’am. 😃 I’m pretty sure it stands for Czech Alcoholic Trappist Salve - a very popular monk-brewed beer with reported medicinal and aphrodisiac properties. ---
**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/13 "2004-10-12T15:55:25Z")
I would like to come, and we could share the room, **wolfstu**. But I can’t guarantee it yet. Sorry, that didn’t help much. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/14 "2004-10-12T18:20:23Z")
Wish I could be there with you. Prague is my favorite city. Don’t forget shots of Becharovka chased with beer. HOO-wa! ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/15 "2004-10-12T19:12:20Z")
So envious…have fun…and beer? You mean that stuff that looks like beer but is actually 198 proof alcohol and will have you naked, standing on a table and doing the bunny hop after two glasses? Take pictures. Post them for all to see. Wish I could be there! ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/16 "2004-10-13T07:00:59Z")
> [@mkl12](#): > > I would like to come, and we could share the room, **wolfstu**. But I can’t guarantee it yet. Sorry, that didn’t help much. ☹ No problem 🙂 If you can make it, please email me so I can cancel the other arrangments. (Email in profile) ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/17 "2004-10-14T07:24:07Z")
So, time to start planning stuff, right? Right! 🙂 **wolfstu** , as stated, I’m aiming for 9 AM at Liège Guillemins. It’s been a while since I was in Belgium’s ugliest city (but awfully nice if you know where to go!), but as memory serves, there’s some parking spaces outside the main entrance (center side). I’ll try and be right about there. Do you have a cell phone, by any chance? If you don’t, then don’t panic when I’m not there yet, I’m probably trying to get into Liège together with 200,000 others. 😃 To everyone else: since all or most of us are at the Josephina pension, that seems like a good enough place to rendez-vous, right? Traffic permitting, we should be able to be there in the last part of the afternoon, so maybe 18:00 on Friday is a good enough time to kick the party off? ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/18 "2004-10-14T07:57:06Z")
> [@Coldfire](#): > > **wolfstu** , as stated, I’m aiming for 9 AM at Liège Guillemins. It’s been a while since I was in Belgium’s ugliest city (but awfully nice if you know where to go!), but as memory serves, there’s some parking spaces outside the main entrance (center side). I’ll try and be right about there. Do you have a cell phone, by any chance? If you don’t, then don’t panic when I’m not there yet, I’m probably trying to get into Liège together with 200,000 others. 😃 You bet. There are trains from Leuven that arrive at Liège-Guillemins at 0853 and 0902. I’ll be on one of those. I’ll be wearing a dark blue coat with burgundy collar ([here](http://eagle.auc.ca/~kpeltsch/P5220002.JPG) I am wearing it - I’m the guy sitting under the map) and the [Sandvik](http://www.sandviktamrock.no/banner.html) logo. Plus I’ll have a [valise](http://a5.zencatalog.com/Promotional2/tonbridge_executive_bag.jpg) with an embroidered [Canadian flag](http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/sc-cs/df1_e.cfm) sewn onto the front. (Okay, you probably knew what that one looks like 😉 ) It looks like I may be able to room with **mkl12** , so I can stay at the Josephina Pension after all! Pillowfights for everyone! ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/19 "2004-10-14T08:12:47Z")
Dude, you make this way too easy. 🙂 All right, so I’m looking for a Canuck in a blue coat. How many would there be of those, in downtown Liège at 9 AM on a rainy Friday in october? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789/20 "2004-10-14T10:57:50Z")
> [@wolfstu](#): > > It looks like I may be able to room with **mkl12** , so I can stay at the Josephina Pension after all! Pillowfights for everyone! Cool ! Hmnn… ::packs extra pillow for **mkl12** :: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praguedope-oct-22-24-final-preps-and-info/268789.md?page=2)