UND vs Cornell in Jan.

[ithacat]

[quote dietlbomb][quote jtwcornell91][quote imafrshmn]If you want to be within walking distance of Lynah rink without paying a crapload for the Statler Hotel, the best you can do is stay at the Hillside Inn.  It's near Collegetown, so you can easily get back on foot if you decide to partake in the nightlife.[/quote]

Plus, FLA![/quote]

Does anyone even know what FLA is?[/quote]

Probably some European soccer channel. Or, hopefully, free laundry available.

[DeltaOne81]

I forgot about the visiting team allotment, good call. LIsiouxfan, would the UND ticket office not mail you tickets? Do you really need to know someone on campus?


[quote dietlbomb]Well, Dunbar's is the hockey team's bar. So, after the Saturday game, the players will be there. If Cornell wins, you can be a friend there; if the Sioux win, there could be a bit of friction. If you play it low key, though, I doubt there could be any trouble.[/quote]

Seriously? Has our national bad attitude spilled into Dunbars? WTF?!? What happened to 'leave it in the rink'? When the game's over, we're all college hockey fans. Sure, if someone comes in acting like a asshat, there might be some friction, but assuming they're behaving like a halfway decent human being, they should be gladly welcomed.


[quote imafrshmn]If you want to be within walking distance of Lynah rink without paying a crapload for the Statler Hotel, the best you can do is stay at the Hillside Inn. It's near Collegetown, so you can easily get back on foot if you decide to partake in the nightlife.[/quote]

If you're a college student or not that far off in years, the Hillside Inn is considered walkable (though not an easy walk). If you're in your 60s or even in your 30s or 40s with a bad knee or something, it's not walkable. It's 2/3rds of a mile uphill, much of which is at a significant grade. Be forewarned.

Also, unless things have changed drastically in the last 5 years, the phrase "the best you can do is stay at the Hillside Inn" is very scary . Rather I'd say there's at least one B&B in Collegetown on College Ave, if you're so inclined.


[quote Josh'99]You got somethin' against bars? ::pissed:: :-P[/quote]

After the game? No. Before the game? Yes. At least the ones that don't also serve some good food, but since the Chariot closed, perhaps Rulloffs & the Nines are the only possibly acceptable bar food. But going to Ithaca just once and only eating at a bar is like going to NYC and only eating street hotdogs. Just a Taste, Thai Cuisine, Ithaca Bakery, Boatyard, Maxie's, Taste of Thai... in CTown there's Sangam, Aladdin's, CTB. All are excellent.

[Josh '99]

[quote dietlbomb][quote jtwcornell91][quote imafrshmn]If you want to be within walking distance of Lynah rink without paying a crapload for the Statler Hotel, the best you can do is stay at the Hillside Inn.  It's near Collegetown, so you can easily get back on foot if you decide to partake in the nightlife.[/quote]

Plus, FLA![/quote]

Does anyone even know what FLA is?[/quote]Yes, but if I told you then I'd have to kill you.

[Jim Hyla]

[quote DeltaOne81][quote imafrshmn]If you want to be within walking distance of Lynah rink without paying a crapload for the Statler Hotel, the best you can do is stay at the Hillside Inn. It's near Collegetown, so you can easily get back on foot if you decide to partake in the nightlife.[/quote]

If you're a college student or not that far off in years, the Hillside Inn is considered walkable (though not an easy walk). If you're in your 60s or even in your 30s or 40s with a bad knee or something, it's not walkable. It's 2/3rds of a mile uphill, much of which is at a significant grade. [/quote]Hey, watch that. There are some of us old farts who can still walk, and some who even run hills. Seriously, it is a long walk, but certainly doable.

[tretiak]

Take it easy, Delta. Why don't you sit this next one out, stop talking for a while.

Despite DeltaOne's hyperbole, there are some good places to eat in Ithaca but it's not like it's a culinary mecca. If you're going to CTown, Rulloff's is the best place to go. If you're going downtown, the Thai places and Maxie's are a little more expensive then Rulloff's but good. There are fancier places in Ithaca, but it's not worth it unless you're celebrating something.

[DeltaOne81]

What would a Russian goaltender know?

Ithaca may not quite be a culinary 'mecca', but it is one of the most widely diverse culinary places you can find outside of major cities. And it has a variety of *excellent* dining options. As merely one of them, you aware that Thai Cuisine won best Thai in New York State, *including* NYC.

There are gems in Ithaca, if you never got out of CTown though, you may not know it. One of my favorite things about returning to Ithaca is the opportunity to visit some restaurants that I've yet to find matches for in other places I've lived.

[tretiak]

Pierogies. Lots and lots of pierogies. And borscht. Bland food...mmmmm :-D

And thank you for taking my snark in stride. To be fair, I did say the Thai places and Maxie's were good. I enjoyed eating there, and didn't know it was so highly rated. I just think that other downtown Ithaca restaurants (Boatyard, Joe's, John Thomas, etc) are overrated. Everytime I ate at one of the "traditional" places I felt like I was being taken advantage of, but at least I knew that before hand...what, too soon?

[Robb]

[quote Jim Hyla]Hey, watch that. There are some of us old farts who can still walk, and some who even run hills. Seriously, it is a long walk, but certainly doable.[/quote]Heh.  My father (hockey content: he's a season ticket holder) just finished 365 days in a row of 10,000 steps per day and is about to run his 14th(?) USMC Marathon this fall.  I'd bet he can out-walk most undergrads.  And my mom beats him in the marathons...

[CKinsland]

[quote Jim Hyla][quote DeltaOne81][quote imafrshmn]If you want to be within walking distance of Lynah rink without paying a crapload for the Statler Hotel, the best you can do is stay at the Hillside Inn. It's near Collegetown, so you can easily get back on foot if you decide to partake in the nightlife.[/quote]

If you're a college student or not that far off in years, the Hillside Inn is considered walkable (though not an easy walk). If you're in your 60s or even in your 30s or 40s with a bad knee or something, it's not walkable. It's 2/3rds of a mile uphill, much of which is at a significant grade. [/quote]Hey, watch that. There are some of us old farts who can still walk, and some who even run hills. Seriously, it is a long walk, but certainly doable.[/quote]

Jeez.  The Hillside Inn is already partway up the hill.  My 59 year old mother and her 62 year old neighbor walk up the hill to Cornell from Falls St (all the way at the bottom of the hill) every day for work.

I walk up the hill from Gimme Coffee on Cayuga St for hockey games (I'm 37).  It's not a really big deal.  

The Best Western at East Hill Plaza is just about 1.5 miles away on a reasonably flat route.  That's just under a 30 minute walk for most people, I guess.  The way traffic flows after a game, you'd probably get back faster walking than driving.  (Of course, this would make it difficult to go downtown or to Collegetown for post-game festivities).

Just walk people, walk.  Save the environment, improve your health, glory in the beauty of the outdoors.

(Yeah, I'm a little fanatic about it...but I'm not as bad as my mom.)

CK

[DeltaOne81]

[quote tretiak]
And thank you for taking my snark in stride. To be fair, I did say the Thai places and Maxie's were good. I enjoyed eating there, and didn't know it was so highly rated. I just think that other downtown Ithaca restaurants (Boatyard, Joe's, John Thomas, etc) are overrated. Everytime I ate at one of the "traditional" places I felt like I was being taken advantage of, but at least I knew that before hand...what, too soon?[/quote]

I was slightly annoyed, but I gave you the benefit of the doubt .

I happen to think Boatyard is very good, but I haven't been there in years, so I can't comment recently. It's not on the top of my 'revisit' list, and it seems to always be the top one I don't get too.

But I agree with you on Joe's (fine, but nothing special - but I haven't been to since it closed & reopened) & John Thomas (overpriced, and I'm not a huge fan of steak anyway, but again, I haven't been there in a long time). Last I knew, Taughannock was similarly priced, except that price gets you 4 courses, not one piece of meat with sides extra.

Not everything's a gem, not by far, but there are a good handful that are.

Anyway, my only real point was, if spending 2 or 3 days in Ithaca, you're missing out if you limit yourself to food at bars, not that the best might not worth a meal or two as well.


P.S. On the walking thing, you've all made your points that most people on Social Security are in better shape than me :-P. Even in college the haul from West to Lynah - which I did many many times - but was good haul. You're right though, I overstated it... it's walkable, but it's not an leisurely stroll, it's a good bit of exercise.

And there's one thing you're missing... this will be early January. It's likely to be freezing and icy or snowy. Not a lovely early September day.

[Dpperk29]

[quote DeltaOne81]
And there's one thing you're missing... this will be early January. It's likely to be freezing and icy or snowy. Not a lovely early September day.[/quote]

Freezing? Icy? Snowy? Where is the problem?

The guy said he went to NORTH DAKOTA. All of North Dakota is north of the most northern point in New York, I think he has seen weather worse than Ithaca.

[Larry72]

CalgAri and I were in Grand Forks last November. After the Friday game, we discovered East Grand Forks which is across the river in Minnesota (go figure)!  Collegetown is a bit like East Grand Forks except the restaurants are better in Collegetown. The beer and the bars are similar. In all:
- Ithaca is far more cosmopolitan than GF.
- There are many ethnic restaurants in Collegetown and all over Ithaca that we certainly couldn't locate in GF.
- Ithaca has hills. Quote from a local in GF.  "Grand Forks is so flat, you can watch your dog run away from three days!"
- In flying into GF, the only large visible structures are the hockey rink and the railyard!

I think you'll like Ithaca and Cornell.  Lynah is VERY different from Engelstad.  It's smaller and louder.  The fans are closer to the action.

Larry '72

[KeithK]

[quote Larry72]- Ithaca has hills. Quote from a local in GF.  "Grand Forks is so flat, you can watch your dog run away from three days!" [/quote]
This fact might make the walk from the Hillside Inn to Lynah a little significant for our visitors.

[Jacob '06]

[quote Larry72]

I think you'll like Ithaca and Cornell.  Lynah is VERY different from Engelstad.  It's smaller and louder.  The fans are closer to the action.

Larry '72[/quote]

And we have a band and don't play Phil Collins music while our team skates out. Still one of the weirdest things I've ever experienced.

[Larry72]

That part of the experience was quite surreal.  As were the marble floors, skating cheerleaders and the rivalry with UMinn, even though GF is right on the border with Mn.