Best hotel in Gainesville for a game?
by rustytanton on Aug 19, 2009 10:34 PM EDT
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Hello hated rivals. I am Tennessee alum, and apparently a masochist because I'm contemplating making the trip down to Gainesville Sept. 19 to watch the Gators (probably, but hopefully not) smack my Vols around.
I've never visited your city, and am looking for hotel suggestions. Ideally this would be a somewhere I could walk to bars from after the game, and walk/catch a shuttle to the game from.
Any suggestions (along with suggestions for bars to drink away my misery/bask in the glow of moral victory) would be greatly appreciated.
Please be kind and use good grammar.
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The only hotels within walking distance of the bars are Holiday Inn (midtown), Gainesville Lodge (typical 1950s hotel, close to downtown) and Hampton Inn (downtown). I think most of the affordable rooms on I-75 are booked, so you might have to look at Alachua, Lake City or Ocala. As for shuttles, I don’t know of any, but Gainesville has a very good bus system.
mlmintampa
UF C/O 06
by mlmintampa on Aug 20, 2009 10:13 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Also, midtown is the student area, except for Swamp, which is a decent restaurant in the afternoon and a frat/soro mecca at night. Downtown is a little more mature around the Hippodrome Theater, with clubs on Main Street. Although, Gainesville is bursting at the seams on a game weekend, so you’ll be waiting in line anywhere. The walk on University Ave from midtown to downtown is about a mile and a half.
mlmintampa
UF C/O 06
by mlmintampa on Aug 20, 2009 10:20 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Thanks for the tips
Availability dictated I get a room in Alachua, though I’m keeping an eye out for cancellations in the closer hotels.
The bar tips are very helpful.
"Florida didnt win their first SEC title until 1991 and now they think they invented football."
-Ron Zook
by rustytanton on Aug 20, 2009 2:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Midtown?
Gainesville has a midtown now? when did that happen and where is it? Man am I getting old.
by skigator93 on Aug 20, 2009 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
People have only started saying it
in the past year or so.
It's Great to be a Florida Gator!
by Wayward Llama on Aug 24, 2009 6:09 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Jo Noah said it when the team came back following the 2006 title. I remember because I was there. Seriously. I was a photog for WUFT that day.
mlmintampa
UF C/O 06
by mlmintampa on Aug 24, 2009 1:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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