Narrowing in on the Worldcon Hotel
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kevin_standleeThanks to some help on Mastodon, we seem to be getting closer to finding the hotel in which I'm staying and in which some of the Worldcon activities/programming will happen.
It would appear that the hotel is called "Chengdu Tianfu Hengbang Sheraton" in Chinese, but "Sheraton Chengdu Pidu" in English. (Link is to the Marriott website for the hotel.)
Putting that address into Google Maps, I get this:
Remember that we are assuming that the area above and to the left of the lake is the building site that is now the convention site (or should be as they rush to finish construction). Note that the address pin doesn't have anything around it. However, if we go to the "maps" page on the hotel's website, we get this:
This makes much more sense, and is consistent with the hotel overlooking the lake.
I then went to the gmaps-pedometer tool, which much more usefully shows the outline of the convention center/Chengdu Science Fiction Museum site. Using the tool, and assuming that the dashed lines on the map are a lakeside path, I got a walking route between the hotel and the museum of about 1.15 km. So while the two are not adjacent, they are also not an impossibly long walk from each other. It appears to be about the same distance as from the part of the ExCel Convention Center in London to the Crowne Plaza Hotel where I stayed at the 2014 London Worldcon.
It would appear that the hotel is called "Chengdu Tianfu Hengbang Sheraton" in Chinese, but "Sheraton Chengdu Pidu" in English. (Link is to the Marriott website for the hotel.)
Putting that address into Google Maps, I get this:
Remember that we are assuming that the area above and to the left of the lake is the building site that is now the convention site (or should be as they rush to finish construction). Note that the address pin doesn't have anything around it. However, if we go to the "maps" page on the hotel's website, we get this:
This makes much more sense, and is consistent with the hotel overlooking the lake.
I then went to the gmaps-pedometer tool, which much more usefully shows the outline of the convention center/Chengdu Science Fiction Museum site. Using the tool, and assuming that the dashed lines on the map are a lakeside path, I got a walking route between the hotel and the museum of about 1.15 km. So while the two are not adjacent, they are also not an impossibly long walk from each other. It appears to be about the same distance as from the part of the ExCel Convention Center in London to the Crowne Plaza Hotel where I stayed at the 2014 London Worldcon.
Local Connection
Date: 2023-10-06 10:23 pm (UTC)Are you in Chengdu?
Date: 2023-10-07 03:58 am (UTC)Re: Are you in Chengdu?
Date: 2023-10-07 04:04 am (UTC)I have no idea if they are going to stream the Hugo Award ceremony, Worldcon Business Meeting, Worldcons Q&A, or anything else.
Glad you're got your visa
Date: 2023-10-09 11:52 pm (UTC)https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/police-activity-reported-near-chinese-consulate-building-in-sf/
Re: Glad you're got your visa
Date: 2023-10-10 01:20 am (UTC)