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If you haven't visited Madison before, it's a little hard to describe. Madison provides the friendliness of a medium-size city with a lot of attractions of a bigger one, and this is almost certainly due to the presence of the University of Wisconsin campus, occupying a subtle 933 acres through the center of the city. A fannish wit once described Madison as "a cross between Seattle without the ocean and Austin without the heat." We hope you will venture out of the hotel while you are here and enjoy our great city.
Madison weather in May can be... well... unpredictable. You might like to check the weather forecast at Channel 3000 as the date gets close. The website also has local news and other links, including a pollen forecast on the weather page.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has a page about current highway construction, should you be driving. Parts of East Washington Avenue are ripped up, and as that's a main artery into the downtown area, you might like to look at this as well.
For nightlife and restaurant info across all of Madison, we recommend the Isthmus Daily Page. The Isthmus is the local free weekly newspaper.
The Greater Madison Convention and Visitor's Bureau has as many things on their site as syllables in their name, including information about local attractions such as museums and Madison's very fine free zoo.