Re: Holiday Inn at Reliant Park
 

Agreed. The location was great. Taking the shuttle bus more than doubled the time it took, actually, as they didn't seem to ever want to go right there...

We ate at various area restaurants, and for non-food meetings, usually congregated by the pools. The only problem was that we met rather late, so we had to try to keep things down -- we applauded a couple times, drawing angry stares from windows. But for quiet meetings, it seemed to work fairly well.

Sunday's breakfast was nice -- pancakes, etc. I think they broke out something else new (vaguely resembling mashed potatoes, they described it with a heavy accent as something that sounded like "grapes," although that's clearly not what it was). Admittedly not much of a change, though.

After getting past the language barrier (don't take that as some sort of derogatory comment or anything, it's just that they didn't seem to understand us too well), one of my friends managed to get 3 biscuits (nothing else) every morning.

I usually just got what they had (minus the eggs), and then purchased a box of Krispy Kremes (despite their insane cost) at the Reliant Center. Talk about good. Except that the $4.25 ($4.75?) box of donuts led for me to want a $3.75 bottle of soda... But Mr. Pibb and Krispy Kreme (two great things we in New Hampshire are deprived of) ended up making a great breakfast, even when they cost about $8 combined. :cool:

I cant really say I didnt notice anything but when you have 4 guys the room gets pretty messy anyway. We where so tired at night that I think we wouldnt care if there was a dead rat sittin in our room.

The food was HORRIBLE, especialy the eggs.

We also discovered that you had to call for everything TWICE! Nothing would get done if you just called once.

The Air conditioners made alot of noise and well the bathtub wasnt all that clean.

And one more thing, we where watching the maids clean one day... they simply pick-up the towels and replace them and than spray a pink liquid from a spray bottle into the room. No vacuming, no washing... just that magic spray! I cant wait till that comes to the consumer market!

Re: Re: Holiday Inn at Reliant Park
 

That would be grits...

I almost fogot the elevator... I got stuck on it (along with 4 of my what beacome close team memebers) for about 30min.

We called down to the front desk from the phone within the elevator and they seemed to do nothing. It wasnt till we started jumping that it actualy clicked and started moving.

Radisson sucked...

I wanted to get ice for some of my water and mt. dew, and it took 5 minutes until i actually got a little bit. then when we got back to our room on saturday, the bathroom smelled like grits and crap. What do those maids do in there? The elevators were funny. Anyone notice it said, maximum weight 2000 pounds, but only four people were allowed on at once. I just used the stairs most of the time and had fun stopping the elevator at each floor. When I walked into this Radisson, I thought that it would be better than the one at Chesapeake because the lobby didn't smell like horse manure. Obviously, it wasn't.

Wow
 

From the looks of these posts I don't honestly think my team had it bad at all - and we stayed at the Motel 6 on South Main a mile from Reliant Stadium...

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I wonder how many people got stuck in those elevators over the course of the week. Reply if you got stuck cause I am interested in finding the approximate number of people that got stuck in that death trap of an elevator. We had 2 different incidents with team members getting stuck for over 30 mins. One was a group of students got stuck early in the week.

The other group was some adults that got stuck after midnight, and the elevator guy was at home. We managed to pry the doors open and get them out. They were stuck very close to the 4th floor where we were staying. I think the reason it got stuck was the case of Miller Lite they were carrying.:D Unfortunatly it was warm or they would have had an elevator party.:)

Also the breakfast was horrible, but walking distance to the stadium and Six Flags was nice. The Radisson Astrodome is also one of the biggest hotels I have ever seen. They should start renovating it now before the Olympics come to town.

Hooray! As a Radisson Elevator Survivor, I know the experience. We wanted to eat one of the freshmen on our team, but we had so much bad food our stomachs hurt.

Let's not forget Mrs. O'B..."My husband's in there!" followed by "No I'm not!

And my room smelled like rotten fish and cheese on Wednesday and Thursday.

Good thing I don't like eggs, but the pancakes were stiff...I could've folded them like a sheet of paper.

we did but not for too long! apparently, 4 girls with luggage was far more than the eleavator should ever be allowed to carry.... even though the sign said it could hold 2500 pounds.... then again... i MUST weigh a good ton myself... lotsa sarcasm there!:p :rolleyes:

Precisely why I never did drink their orange juice....
The coffee, although looking very similar to mud, didn't taste too horrible and at least it woke me up enough to pay attention.:)

It was way too pulpy. I'm inclined to think that even though it wasn't horrible, all the breakfast stuff (including the pancakes) came from a can.

Yeah....
The eggs came out of a box as well.
My breakfast consisted of one biscuit and two cups of coffee.
By the time Saturday came around, I decided to try the restaurant..... yeah
The pancakes their came out of a box as well with canned blueberries. There was no where you could go to get decent food.
And what they fed us at the Astrodome for lunch is a different story altogether.
Jessica

You should have stayed at the Double Tree Guest Suites. They give you FREE chocolate chip cookies with powdered sugar and strawberries as soon as you walk in. The rooms are gorgeous!!!! 2 T.V.s, kitchenettes, 1 queen bed, 1 fold out coach, ,1 recliner, and a cot if asked, bathroom with all the amenities and no mold, plus a gorgeous view. Then we had an aerodynamics competition right in the lobby ( throwing paper airplane off the 8th floor and seeing who stayed up the longest), a wonderful pool for syncronized swimming, a huge hottub for macking it, and the list goes on and on. It was super the whole group covered 2 floors guys on the 5th girls on the 3rd

:ahh:
OH WAIT!!! DRAIGHT!!! That was in Boston cause our team didn't go to Nationals :mad: and come to think of it that wasn't even my robotics team!!!! Oh well still fun (well as fun as it could be not being in Texas!!!!)

Go stay at the Radisson Inn Astrodome for no reason then... it'll be the experience of a lifetime, I promise.