Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!evan From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) Newsgroups: tor.general Subject: Re: CAA maps & Books (Was: Tourist mis-information) Message-ID: <25D103F4.2677@telly.on.ca> Date: 8 Feb 90 05:30:27 GMT References: <1990Feb5.155733.23725@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1990Feb7.162118.14296@eci386.uucp> Distribution: tor Organization: Public Access Usenet, Brampton, Ontario Lines: 34 Allow one voice of support for the CAA. Going to the same Washington hotel as Greg, a combination of CAA Triptics an maps were enough to get D'Arcy and me right to the door - on the first try. In retrospect, I'd have benefitted from asking for a Pennsylvania map (to get us around Harrisburg's maze of interstates), and I decided against their original route suggestion. But otherwise I have no quibbles with the route information and maps. I appreciated their warnings, stamped on the appropriate areas of the triptiks, where radar traps were more common (they were right). Thanks to CAA tourbooks, I have been able to find reasonably-priced hotels for Unix Expo in New York, and previous Uniforums in Dallas and San Francisco. In each case, the hotel was not part of a chain, was under $80/night, and within walking distance of the show. As these places did not have 800 numbers, the CAA placed the LD call to make the reservations. As for the tow service, it's saved my tail enough times that I can't complain. Response has been reasonable on all but the coldest days, and the tow truck drivers I spoke to have been generally pleased with the contracts the CAA gives them (less $$ per tow, but plenty of steady business...) There are many other reasons to like the service. In my two trips to Britain, it's been very helpful that both the AA and RAC honour the Canadian membership as if it was their own. All in all, to me, well worth the bucks. -- The Northwest Territories: | Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Where men are men, women | Located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario are scarce, and caribou are | evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!attcan!telly!evan very careful how they walk. | (416) 452-0504