Green Party Annual National Meeting 2006
Pima County, Arizona


Why Tucson?
Meeting Venue
Accommodations
Meals
Transportation
Environment
Special Attractions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accommodations

Housing includes several options, two within 5 blocks, and two a short bus ride (1-2 miles) away.

Dorm rooms (www.life.arizona.edu) available at the following nonprofit rates: $35/single Wed-Sun 26-30 night or $25/double.Sonora Hall has community bathrooms shared by floor. Computer access in dorms: one port/ room, your laptop must be equipped with a "10 Base T" ethernet adapter card and cord.

The only trolley line in the city runs from campus to 4th Avenue, effectively connecting those delegates who dorm to the convention site.
There are also buses, and it is a short walk (approx 6 blocks).

The rates below are based on booking ten or more rooms:

Inexpensive hotel
Flamingo 1-800-300-3533
$40 single, $50 double, $56 if 4 or 4 (on two queen beds). Bus service plus some walking.

Medium hotel
Sheraton 4 Points, Tucson [This is the one on the other side of campus, and requires a bus ride] $60 for 2, $5@ extra for 3-5 in a room, with one in a rollaway, with 10 or more rooms. and Best Western Royal Inn 6 blocks, $75 for double.

Expensive hotel
Marriott, University 1-520-792-4100
$104 for single or double, $15/ person up to four per room, w 10 or more rooms.

Cheapest
Roadrunner Hostel 346 E 12th St
$18/night (far side of downtown, 3-4 miles away, bus plus walking, and transfer)

There are no unionized hotel options. [We are a "right to work" state, and unions struggle here. Our state Green Party chair is a union official, and our local Green Party held several solidarity events during the recently settled strike of copper miners at ASARCO, so we have a deep commitment to labor. It is partly because the hotels are not union that we have chosen an alternative meeting venue.]

There is an 8% sales tax, but also a 12% bed tax, so 20% needs to be added on to the quoted rates.

On campus parking will be between $5-6/ day, and between $20-25/week. Cheaper parking could be negotiated with local churches, except on Sunday.

 

 
Contact: Claudia Ellquist, Chair, Green Party of Pima County ellquist.co.atty@juno.com 520-622-3339