Radisson Astrodome
 

I too stayed at the Radisson Astrodome.
Did any of you notice that the hotel is shaped like a cowboy?
Uh yeah...
We also found a cockroach. One of the members on our team put it into a cup and returned it to the frontdesk, hehehe.
-Jessica

At regionals, four people were staying in a room and the AC didn't work. They were complaining so much that I went in there and sure enough, it was like a hundred and one degrees in there. When we were picking our rooms for nationals, one of them dropped out and all of the people who were in my room dropped out too because they couldn't go. So, I went with the three remaining. The first night, it started to seem kind of hot. I went over to the AC controls. It was set to high heat.

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5, 84, 181, 503, and 957 actucally had fun, and liked our hotel rooms!! We even had our own team party on thurs. night! Great fun, good food, and a WORKING pool!! Beat that!

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:D

Bait and Switch! Bait and Switch!

Well, I wasn't really in to what they were planning. After all, it was what? 12:00 at night!!! I wanted to get some sleep. I just told them to go to bed but they wanted to do more.

Team 245 stayed at the Doubletree Hotel at Allen Center. It was a really nice place, except for the fact that it was in the middle of the business district of Houston (not too much fun stuff around it), and the fact that it had no pool. The hotel really proved how quality it was when it found my retainer that I had left, and Fedexed it back to me. They saved me like $300.

Well my hotel The Holiday Inn Astrodome was ok by some of these other hotels. It still sucked though. The pool closed at ten. There was nothing to do for entertainment in the area. 40 minute bus rides to the galleria. Major road construction right outside. They hired a security guard special just to wander the halls enforcing their 0 tolerence policy that it seemed they just created. And the elevators were quite iffy. The breakfast sucked. The first morning they told like half the team that there was a free buffet after we had all ordered/gotten our meals. The buffet consisted of powdered instant scrambled eggs, really hard crunchy bacon, potatoes, and biscuits. You also only got one glass of juice and had to pay for any refills after that. The only good part about the hotel was the Toys R' Us and Fiesta both next door.

There were potatoes??

At least you had rooms....
 

Our team got to the Best Western Park Place in the evening to find that, although we had prepaid for 16 rooms, the hotel only had 13 available. After some heated discussion with the front desk, who had no idea what they were doing, three rooms miraculously appeared and we sent the team to their assigned places.

Twenty minutes later we were back in the lobby. It turns out that one of the rooms had an old lady sleeping in it. Since nobody answered the door or the phone the management burst in the door and scared the old woman half to death. The management had no idea she was even staying there.

We ended up a room short and essentially shoved kids in together where we could fit them. The hotel still hasn't refunded any money for the paid for but unavailable room. I still want some restitution for this ridiculous situation.

WC

Wow... that's awful! You should've at least gotten the money for the extra room back.

you should get more money back... Like a free room or two for their mistake...