2005 Nebula Awards® Ceremony DVD from Alpha Video Production
The Allegro is full. We signed a contract for the W Chicago City Center Hotel (172 W. Adams) to hold 10 rooms available to our members Wednesday through Sunday nights at $229 single/$259 double. The information should be on their computer by noon on April 27.
The 2005 Nebula Awards weekend will be Thursday-Sunday, April 28-May 1, at the Allegro Hotel, 171 W. Randolph Street, in the heart of Chicago's Loop Theater District.
Room rates will be $129 per standard room, $149 per Premiere room, and $219 per King suite, plus tax. To avoid attrition penalties, we have underbooked, rather than overbooked, our bloc of rooms, so early hotel reservations will be advisable. [Please also note that lawyers from the Illinois State Bar Association may be using part of our room bloc on Thursday night.] Check-in time is 3:00 p.m., and check-out time is 12 noon.
You can book rooms via the Allegro’s website, http://www.allegrochicago.com, or at their secure online reservation site.
The Hotel’s instructions are to type “SFF” in the Rate Code Field. That should get you the special SFWA rate.
The entire Allegro hotel has wifi and the hotel has wifi cards for rent at the front desk and technical support.
The Allegro is within two blocks of an el train station directly from O'Hare Airport, and across the street from another cross-line el stop, which is also reachable from Midway Airport. El fares are $1.75. Airport Express shuttles also run to the Hotel from O'Hare ($21 one-way, $39 round trip) and Midway ($16 and $30) Airports. Parking is available at the hotel's garage on the west side of southbound Wells Street, just south of Randolph Street (current rates are $23/day for self-parking) and by valet at the Allegro’s front door on Randolph Street ($34/day with in-and-out privileges).
Directions to the Hotel can be printed from its website.
The Chicago 2005 Nebula Awards Weekend Committee bids you all welcome.
— Jeffrey Liss, Chair