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Hondo, Texas
8 February 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact E. D. Yoes, Sect'y SWRFI
RENTAL CARS, HOTEL ROOMS
AND CAMPING AT SWRFI 2005
The Texas Fly-In will be held in Hondo, Texas May
13th, 14th and 15th of 2005. Preparations for the
event are well advanced, especially with regard to
accommodations and amenities.
For the convenience of participants arriving in
their own airplanes,
Hertz Car Rental
will have as many rental cars on site as
SWRFI needs; Hertz is the official EAA rental-car
agency.
Shuttle service
will be available between the Fly-In and the local
hotels and motels. This same shuttle service will
take people to downtown if they want to shop the
antique stores in Hondo.
In Hondo itself, fly-in officials have blocked out
approximately 50 motel rooms, and in nearby towns
such as Devine, Castroville, D'Hanis, Sabinal, and
Bandera at least 100 more, including some of the
finest Bed-and-Breakfast establishments in the
nation. In San Antonio, forty-five minutes by car,
are thousands of rooms.
For full information - photos, descriptions, rates
and telephone numbers - on all forms of lodging,
prospective visitors should use the internet to
consult:
www.swrfi.org/lodging.htm
On this SWRFI website,
accommodations are
grouped according to towns, and the towns are listed
according to mileage from the Hondo Airport.
Moreover, taking a leaf from the Oshkosh playbook,
Texas Fly-In has launched a housing bureau by which
residents of the South Texas Winter Garden can rent
rooms or their entire homes to visitors for the
three-day event. It's a novel idea to many citizens
of Hondo, but they are adopting it
enthusiastically. Fly-In visitors will be charmed
by these hospitable homes, some dating from the era
around 1881 when Hondo was founded.
Rooms range between $35 and $75 per night; homes
from $75 up. All these homes are within 4 miles of
the Hondo airfield. Call the Housing Bureau at the
Hondo Chamber of Commerce at (830) 426-3037.
But for adventurous attendees, there is
camping on the airfield itself. The
Texas Fly-In offers all types of on-site camping -
an area for tent camping, travel trailer camping,
camping with your aircraft, and an area for motor
homes.
Facilities include indoor showers and plumbing;
electricity and water hookups; meals on site at all
meal times, and dinner gatherings each evening with
entertainment and open bar after 5:30 p.m., Thursday
thru Saturday...more
info
The cost for RV campers will be $15 a night.
Aircraft campers bed down beneath their wings for
their cost of ten dollars. There are also RV parks
in Hondo and most of the surrounding towns.
Finally, Texas Fly-In officials note that for
aviators Hondo is a mere 39 nautical miles further
south than Kerrville, where SWRFI took place for
many years.
HDO already feels like home. For E.A.A. members,
the welcome mat is out. |
