From: Nick Griffin (ngriffin@sio.midco.net)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2006 - 10:42:48 GMT-3
One clarification, they actually start serving breakfast at 6am EST
time. I was up for some exercise at 530am, a quick shower, breakfast at
620am put me at Cisco at the same time as everyone else, 7am.
CCIE 4 Me wrote:
> If you booked a place @ Wingate, you can call the hotel once you get to the
> Airport, they will send a shuttle bus down to the airport to pick you up,
> that will save you on cab. Like the previous contributor said, they will
> also take you to the lab location and after the lab, you can call them and
> they will shuttle you back to the Airport.
>
> The downside is the food, but the receptionist keep menus for alot of
> resturants, on request you can get these menu from her and order some food.
> If you do not have a wireless card or access on your labtop, do not worry,
> they also have rj45 internet access, a good assest to do a final review of
> the almighty DocCD. In terms of the price, it is not the cheapest, but if
> you include all the services, it looks like a good deal.
>
> It is possible you would not be able to get their breakfast, because I
> believe they server it around 7:00am, but th shuttle leaves around 6:45pm,
> so ordering something the night before and storing it in the
> fridge/microwave untill the next morning might be a good ideal.
>
> When I took my lab in Dec. 19/05 six out of the eight people who sat for the
> Lab that day stayed at Wingate including two guys from Canada and one guy
> from England. A bit of OT, I will never forget the guy from England, he came
> to write CCIE S/P on 12/19/05, but he said the last time he touched a Router
> was in May/05, he also have CCIE R/S scheduled in California in Jan/Feb 06.
> He was depending on luck and on the DocCD, but as things turned out, luck
> was not on anyone's side on that day.
>
> HTH
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Griffin" <ngriffin@sio.midco.net>
> To: <aminul.siddiqui@gmail.com>
> Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 10:04 AM
> Subject: Re: Those who attempted Lab in RTP
>
>
>
>> I was there earlier this week. I stayed at the wingate, which is right
>> off of page road. It's within 15 minutes of Cisco and they offer free
>> shuttle service. They also have hot breakfast in the morning. The drive
>> from the airport is really short, you could get a cab from the airport
>> and use the hotel shuttle for the lab. The rooms were just at 80 a
>> night. The only downside is if your going to be there for a few days,
>> there's not a lot of places to eat around there. All in all it was a
>> good experience.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>>
>>
>> aminul.siddiqui@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I need your fervent support urgently. I have to face visa interview next
>>>
> week. So, I have to book a hotel near RTP for June 14, 2006. Cisco has a
> couple of hotel info but I wish to get feedback from the ones who attended
> the Lab there.
>
>>> Please give me some advice on Airport to Hotel to Cisco Lab and so on.
>>>
>>> Anybody from GTA,ON,Canada booked the Lab on June 15 can contact me.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Amin
>>>
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