and subsequent hotel room. Anyone want in on that action?
Depends. But yes.
As of today (EDIT: this was 1/28), while they may not have gotten a block of rooms, I’m seeing availability at both the Hilton Garden and Hampton Inns right by the convention center:
HG $116/night (AAA rate)
Hampton $122/night (AAA)
(Based on 3 nights – Thurs 4/23 thru Sat 4/26)
Sadly, the prices seem to have gone up as of today (2/17), because the Hampton is now showing as $149/night for the 1 King, 1 bedroom suite w/ kitchenette. I’d still consider it just because it was so close, but the $119/night Homewood Suites with the BFL rate does look better in comparison than it did vs. the prices I saw a few weeks ago.
I seem to only have enough Hilton/Hampton (same hotel family) points for maybe one night. So that doesn’t get us far. Unless we have other options to get free rooms, I’m thinking the BFL rate and location is the next best thing to the ones right by the Convention Center – Google Maps shows a 7 minute drive from the BFL rate Homewood Suites to the CC. I have NOT reserved a room yet, but am willing to do so within the next few days and am willing to share with up to 3 other people (assuming we get a King bed + foldout couch like last year) and also to let Joe have the floor if need be.
To help keep logistics straight (and also because spreadsheets are fun!), I took the liberty of creating a spreadsheet. Check it out, confirm your info, edit if necessary (example: I put default answers of NO for Paula, Rick, and Micah for adding passengers to cars or sleepers to their hotel rooms, but if yinz feel like sharing, you can change those answers.) I feel like it’ll be a lot simpler to keep the final answers there rather than try to back-read the thread repeatedly to confirm things.
Josh, if you go, will you be solo, or with family? Right now, assuming Paula & her friend and Beidemans are each doing their own thing, we have Ben / Tim / Dan / Matt / Joe (one night only?) who need a room – could *probably* make that work in one room if we wanted to be frugal and get to know each other better…but if Josh is also looking to share a room, I’d think we’d be better off splitting that 5/6 people into two rooms.
…wait, @zemata and @kristen-s are going, right? RIGHT?!?!?!
