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Old November 5th 05, 03:53 PM
Darrel Toepfer
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Default Any other hotels near or on airports?

Jay Honeck wrote:

So we've got three years of creating/running an aviation-theme-suite hotel
under our belt now, things are going well, and it's time to start thinking
about adding another location.

Trouble is, I'm afraid that our current location may be almost unique.
Here's what we need in order to duplicate our success:

1. A small-to-medium hotel on, or adjacent to, an airport.
2. The airport must be very close to the city that it serves. No
"out-in-the-boonies" airports, please.
3. The city must have another attraction that creates hotel business.

In our case, it's the University of Iowa that creates the alternative
business. (There simply aren't enough of us pilots to solely support a
hotel, sad to say.) In other locales, it might be a tourist attraction.


KIER has a college and high school campus very near, multiple runways
and is untowered. http://www.lsmsa.edu and http://www.nsula.edu
The town is very famous and has been featured in several movies. They
recently built alot of condo's for the campus, but rent housing is still
very tight. Several hotels around, most newer ones are along I-49. There
is an older Holiday Inn off the end of Runway 17.
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KIER

Any suggestions? We would prefer a warm-weather climate, to off-set our
Midwest location, and to prolong the flying season -- but we're open to
suggestions. (Ideally, it would be fun to have a southern hotel to run in
winter, and the Iowa location to run in summer! :-)

(Better yet, an Australian location to run from November - April, and our
Iowa location to run form May - October!)


KLFT (towered) / 3R7 (untowered) have serveral near the airports. You
can taxi up to one at 3R7. 2L0 (untowered) is really nice, runway 18
leads you out over the lake, KLFT is bordered by a river...

http://www.airnav.com/airport/KLFT (3 runways, 1 parallel)
http://www.airnav.com/airport/3R7 (3 runways, 1 is a grass strip)
http://www.airnav.com/airport/2L0 (1 runway, plus seaplane base, very
active EAA group) http://www.eaa614.org
 




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