Who is staying where?

[Bob Steele]

Skunk Works (1983) is at the Ramada next to the Dome.
We are happy to see our friends from 987 will be there too.

[Alex2614]

Originally Posted by Doug G

701 will be at the Hilton by the BallPark... Too bad there is no baseball game this year during champs week

There isn't? I haven't been able to go in previous years, but every year it has been against the Pirates, our "hometown" team. Very sad news

In other news, MARS 2614 will be staying at the Mariott at the Airport

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by GreyingJay

Thanks for the map! It is interesting to see how far and wide the distribution of teams is. I wonder how representative a sample this is compared to the other 500+ teams that haven't seen this thread.

Even more curious is the annulus between about 3 and 13 miles (by road) from the venue where it appears that no one is staying. I suppose that once you stay far enough away to need a bus, you may as well go out in the 'burbs and get a better room rate.

[GreyingJay]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

Even more curious is the annulus between about 3 and 13 miles (by road) from the venue where it appears that no one is staying. I suppose that once you stay far enough away to need a bus, you may as well go out in the 'burbs and get a better room rate.

I don't know the city at all, is it possible that there are simply no viable places to stay within that region?

In our case as we began looking at farther and farther venues we were encountering public transit times of an hour or more, so we decided to rent vehicles for transport. Once that decision was made we realized that allowing for 30 minutes of driving opens up a much larger region than looking for accommodations within the same timeframe reachable by public transit.

We initially looked at renting a 5000 square foot mansion on a riverfront. I am still a little disappointed that one didn't work out

[SteveGPage]

Originally Posted by EricAnderson191

The X-Cats, Team 191, are staying at the Marriott St. Louis Airport. It is a half mile from a train station, but the walk looks as if it has no sidewalks.

Anyone else at this hotel?

Eric

836 is also at the same hotel. We have a bus taking us to the dome, we might have some available seats, depending on how many you have with you. I can check and see.

Steve

[MattRain]

FTC 2844 is staying at Sheraton St. Louis City Center Hotel & Suites by the Union Station

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

Even more curious is the annulus between about 3 and 13 miles (by road) from the venue where it appears that no one is staying. I suppose that once you stay far enough away to need a bus, you may as well go out in the 'burbs and get a better room rate.

At least on the east side, East St. Louis isn't a great neighborhood. I don't know enough about the west side but it might not be that cheap there (per your reasoning).

[OAXACA]

2375 has found a hotel! We are staying at Drury Inn & Suites Convention Center.

[JPopham]

Originally Posted by OAXACA

2375 has found a hotel! We are staying at Drury Inn & Suites Convention Center.

Yep, Drury Inn & Suites was able to "fix" their mistake, and got us into the Convention Center Location, which is across the street from the Dome. Even better than where we were before at Union Station!

Hope we have some teams in our hotel, and if not I know we will have lots of FIRST volunteer and peeps!

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Eric the hotel has airport shuttle service. You can use it to take people back and forth to the hotel.

Glad I looked up information on this hotel. It's just reaffirmed my reason to NEVER stay at a Marriott. $9.95 A DAY for internet($14.95 a day for high speed internet)? Forget that!

[rahilm]

Originally Posted by JPopham

Yep, Drury Inn & Suites was able to "fix" their mistake, and got us into the Convention Center Location, which is across the street from the Dome. Even better than where we were before at Union Station!

Hope we have some teams in our hotel, and if not I know we will have lots of FIRST volunteer and peeps!

Same thing happened to us, but they moved us 20 miles out to their location at Westport.

[Dunngeon]

Map has been updated

Team Hotel Map

Originally Posted by rahilm

Same thing happened to us, but they moved us 20 miles out to their location at Westport.

Ouch...

[Jacob Bendicksen]

1540's at the Crowne Plaza by the Arch - too bad there's construction on the Arch grounds right now. Should still be a good view!

[JB987]

Originally Posted by JPopham

Yep, Drury Inn & Suites was able to "fix" their mistake, and got us into the Convention Center Location, which is across the street from the Dome. Even better than where we were before at Union Station!

Hope we have some teams in our hotel, and if not I know we will have lots of FIRST volunteer and peeps!

Good for you guys! Glad the hotel made things right for you. Apparently the hotel is no longer exclusively for volunteers as we had been told several times a few months ago...

[Boe]

2175 will have a number of team members and mentors volunteering and staying at the Drury Inn.