Originally Posted by
janbland
Book your hotel now. We waited to late and ended up in a dump.
Your hotel wouldn't have been the Metropolis Inn by any chance. That's the one my cousin and I booked from the "approved" AQS list and it turned out to be a dump. We had to go buy pillows the first day cause theirs were stained! We checked out a day early and took off on Friday, missing the Alex Anderson class and Ricky Tims show we paid for. If we go again we'll go by bus and get in a decent hotel they save for the buses.
I loved everything in Paducah tho. The museum was great and so were the quilts in the main center building. Scads of vendors everywhere! There was even one from Everett WA there that surprised me. We went to the dinner with Eleanor and she is a wonderful person. Did some shopping at her tent and store cause her prices were great. I got to see Hancock's of Paducah but both my cousin and I were disappointed that they didn't have any special offers for all the quilters (like 10% off fabric). The town is great and we met a lot of people from all over--even Australia, Japan, and England. This was my first time and my cousin had been a few other times on a bus.
Go if you get a chance!