Venue and Official Hotel
RubyNation 2009 will be held at the Hyatt Regency Reston, a first class conference center, with great food, and excellent facilities. It is located in the Reston Town Center, which is full of cool restaurants, bars, and shops, all within a few blocks of the hotel. RubyNation will also be accessible by public transportation via a direct bus link to the West Falls Church metro station to within a few steps of the hotel.
Hyatt Regency Reston 1800 Presidents Street Reston, VA 20190 (703) 709-1234
A map and directions to the Hyatt are available here.
We have a special rate of $109 per night worked out with the hotel. So if you register with them please mention that you are with the RubyNation conference to get it. We have 20 rooms per night blocked off for the conference.
What is Nearby? The Reston Town Center
The Reston Town Center combines elements of the ideal downtown: the vitality of an Italian piazza and the diversity of a French boulevard. Easy-to-access stores make shopping a year-round pleasure. You’ll discover famous names and specialty shops lining the brick streets.
This acclaimed outdoor venue offers more than 50 retail shops, 30 restaurants, a 13-screen Multiplex Cinema and the Hyatt Regency Reston Hotel. And at the Center’s hub, the Pavilion hosts special events, concerts, festivals throughout the year and ice-skating in winter, making this the focal point of the community and Northern Virginia’s “downtown.”
What Else is Nearby? The Air and Space Museum!
The Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum, is a great place to spend the Sunday after RubyNation. There are lots of wonderful, historical aircraft on display, including the Enola Gay B-29 Superfortress, the Space Shuttle Enterprise, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, and a Concorde supersonic airliner.
The Museum is just up the road, near Dulles Airport. Well worth a Sunday morning visit after RubyNation.
Fairfax Connector Bus Link
Bus information leading in and out of the Reston Town Center stop is available here. A PDF file of the 505 line, which goes between the West Falls Church Metro station and the Reston Town Center station is linked here.
It takes about 25 minutes to ride from the West Falls Church Metro to the Reston Town Center.
Closest Airport
The closest airport to RubyNation is Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD).
It takes about 10 minutes to ride from the the airport to the Reston Town Center. The hotel has a shuttle that can give you a ride.