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Location Information

Lodging at Rosario

We have blocked off rooms at Rosario Resort. There is another wedding there that weekend on Sunday, and the resort is overbooked. So if you know you are coming to the wedding and plan to stay there, call by June 23th, the room block expires after that. Be sure to tell them you are part of Gill/Cindrich wedding to get the reserved room block and the discounted rate.

The rooms are either mansion side or hillside. As you might guess the mansion side are down near the grounds and the water. The hill side rooms are on the hill above over looking Eastsound. If you are at all restricted in mobility: go mansion side. Almost all rooms except the mansion side queens have water views, and all have decks. Ask them they will help:

Rosario Resort & Spa
1400 Rosario Road
Eastsound, WA 98245
Phone: 866-801-ROCK or 360-376-2222
Fax: 360-376-2289
http://rosario.rockresorts.com

Heartwood House

We will be hosting the bridal party on Friday night after the wedding rehursal at the Heartwood House, a local vacation rental house. 70 Langell Lane, Eastsound.

Other Lodging

Here is a place that is on the Rosario grounds, but not owned by the resort. They were previously blocked off for other events but have had (as of 6/13) a number of rooms come free including 4 rooms that don't require a two night minimum stay for 8/5.

http://www.cascadeharborinn.com/

Also this place is in Eastsound, five minutes by car from Rosario and doesn't require two nights:

http://www.outlookinn.com/

Seattle Lodging

We've gotten a bunch of inquiries from people that want to stay in Seattle the week before the wedding. Here are some guildlines:

Expect to pay about $140+ for a nice downtown hotel.
Expect to pay about $200+ for a luxury downtown hotel.

As of this writing here would be my recomendations in both categories (as of 4/10/06):

Nice Downtown Hotel

Expedia is running a special rate on "The Mediterranean Hotel" for $118 the two weeks before the wedding. It is a good location: lower Queen Anne, which has lots of good restaurants and bars, you can walk to the market (8 blocks?) or the water front. It is actually really close to both Brian's and Nina's old apartments in Belltown for those of you that were there. (SIDE NOTE: did you know we lived within a block of each other for six months long before we ever met?) And you will have a hard time beating that price. "Special Rates" are a limited block of inventory that we buy at Expedia and can sell at a set price. To be totally fair neither Nina or I have been inside, but it is a really nice facade from the outside and Trip Advisor reviewers seem to give a lot of good reviews.

Luxury Downtown Hotel

For the week before the wedding there are Expedia Special rates for The Mayflower Park, which is an older 3 1/2 star, classic Seattle Hotel right in the thick of downtown for $189 a night. For people that want to spend a bit more for a really cool experience The Edgewater is running at about $269 a night that week right now. It is literally built out on one of the waterfront piers, and has a top notch restaurant in it.