IRI Hotel Arrangements
 

I'm a volunteer going by myself and I was hoping to stay in a hotel with other FIRST teams.

So where is everyone staying?

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You might want to check this thread if you haven't seen it yet.

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573 is staying in the Country Inn and Suites

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I just found out i can go to iri. If someone wants to split a hotel room with me let me know.

thanks shaun

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I am staying at Holiday Inn Express, my team isnt though, but I heard that 47 is.

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No, we are staying at the Super 8 Sweets right off of I-69. :)

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1712 is gonna be at the Marriot.

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Sounds like I'll be seeing a lot of FIRSTers around here! Seems like most of you all are staying on the North East side of Indy, around where i live.

see ya at IRI.

-Q

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I guess I come from a small state.
I just can't see myself, if I was from the same state as the competition, staying over at a (more) local hotel.
:rolleyes:

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Well on one hand, driving an hour or two each day is a hassle. People want to stay up late and stay out late with everyone, so that's motivation.

But I live like 25 minutes away so either way I'm driving home.

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Chuck is obviously using the diversionary tactic.
1712 = Hilton

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1501 is staying at:

Days Inn
8275 Craig St

We have an extra spot in one of our "ladies" rooms if you want to bunk with them. Heck, I am sure if you can make your way to Huntington by 5:45 AM on Friday morning, we could even give you a ride down.

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Um...yeah, we got here a few hours ago, and it turned out to be a Hilton.

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269 is at Super 8, hooray WiFi.

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Gotta love the free wifi @ Super 8!

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Yeah, 1504 is at the Super 8 too, after 3 hours of trying to sleep on the pull out couch (our 3 person room got "upgraded" to a king size with only 1 bed), I gave up, took a shower and got ready for the day. Someone remind me not to go here again...

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seems like almost everyone was at the super 8. i didn't think it was all that bad of a hotel but i did notice that our room didn't have a clock. did anyone else have that problem or did we just get a weird room?

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I would have gladly come along and filled in as your room's Clock. :rolleyes:

<rimshot>

I am after all, an optional item for the pits as per section 7.16 of the FRC manual. :D

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haha I'll remember that for next time. :)

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We made that desicion after last year, when some of the rooms that they gave us they decided not to clean from the guests that came before us.

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For those of you in the future, the Best Western Castleton I thought was excellent. The pricing was reasonable, and the rooms were comfortable and worked well. It's not the Hyatt obviously, but it was clean and worked very well.

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Except for the wake up call system not working, the Super 8 was kind to us. Cheap - $69 gets you AC that works, 2 rooms, 2 TV's, a refrigerator and microwave, a shower with good water pressure, plus free wi-fi.

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Maybe Elgin could develop a wake up call system:
'Hello, this is your Clock speaking - it is time to rise, shine, and comp-e-t-e, GO Teams!'

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Can everyone post good and bad on their hotels.
We will consider the comments when we try to arrange IRI rates for 2007.

Thanks -

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Best Western Castleton

The Good:
Proximity to event
Good AC
Rooms clean
Restaurants of all sorts very close by

The Bad:
This wasn't an issue for us, but if we would have needed to put people on the floor to fill up the room, it would have been very, very tight fit.

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Hilton

Good
Nice
Comfortable
Had Dave Lavery
Indoor Pool

Negatives
No Continental Breakfast
Restaurant was 9 dollars for an omelet
Checked our team out on the Friday
No Continental Breakfast
No Continental Breakfast
No Continental Breakfast
$10 a day for internet

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Add charged $10 a day for internet to the negatives.

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the Super 8 in Castleton

Positives:
large, spacious bed
free wifi
lots of tv channels available
good showers
clean
quiet


Negatives:
no clock
half the people that worked there didn't speak English
housekeeping always came extremely early
skimpy Continental breakfast
really loud fan in the bathroom


Overall, though, I didn't think it was that bad.

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I'm extremely disappointed in the Hilton. We've stayed there for 4 or 5 years now and we have the same problem every year. I don't choose the hotel so I can't say why we keep going back, but it's probably because of the very convenient location.

Every year that we've been there, the hotel screws up and gives us rooms with a single king bed even though we always request 2 doubles. Since we put multiple people in each room (2 mentors per room, 4 students per room), having only 1 bed is obviously a problem. No one likes the rollaway thing.

This year all of our mentor rooms were single bed rooms. It's appalling to me that a place as nice (and pricey) as the Hilton can't manage to figure out how to properly reserve the rooms we ask for.

Add to this all the other negatives listed (why on earth do the most expensive hotels charge for internet while the cheapest ones have it free?) and it makes the Hilton a very unattractive option to me.

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I travel ALOT....and I have often wondered the same thing. Actually about breakfast. If I pay more than $80.00 a night for a hotel room, I've got to pay for breakfast, yet if I stay in a cheaper hotel, breakfast is free...that's the most wacked out thing I've ever heard of too....

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Team 1114 stayed at the Hampton in on 82nd street, just down the road from the Hilton, for the second year in a row. I highly recommend this hotel to all teams.

- Close to the venue
- Free wi-fi
- Free hot breakfast (not continental)
- Indoor swimming pool
- Reasonable room rates $104/night for two double beds

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My wife and I stayed at the Country Inn and Suites. The highway noise was very loud. Another of the mysteries of motel construction is why the windows and window coverings can't be insulated a little better.

One of the teams staying there had issues with the room configuration as mentioned about other hotels.

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Wow... this is great input. I thought you guys all liked the Hilton (formerly the Omni). We need to listen better.

AB

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I'll second the skimpy continental breakfast, but at $49 a night, you really cant complain too much. As for the housekeeping, I was out of there by 7:45 (at the latest) each morning so I didn't have a problem with the housekeeping.

I noticed that it seemed like every other room had a clock. My room had a clock, and the guys down the hall from me had one, but it seemed like everyone else I talked to didn't. I found that rather odd.

I stayed at the Hilton in previous years and I really wasn't too impressed. As long as the Super 8 rate stays in place (well even its regular rate is cheaper than the Hilton special rate), I'll be staying there instead.

It provided the absolute needs for what I needed: a decent bed and a shower.

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I've had a good experience at the Super 8 for the past 2 years after having stayed in the Omni/Hilton the previous years. For the cheap price I can't complain and all I really need is somewhere to sleep and shower.

I'm pretty sure we had a clock in our room, but since I use my cell phone for an alarm clock one wasn't necessary. The one thing I did notice was that the one night when I wanted to watch TV I couldn't find the remote control.

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yea my boyfriend and i both used our cell phones for alarms but it just seemed odd to me that they didn't have a clock because i guess that's something i always thought a hotel would have. but we made due just fine and still always made it to iri on time. :D