J&J - Hotels

[tchescow]

We're having some trouble to find a nice and CHEAP hotel in Trenton or nearby. As usually we'd appreciate some help...

[Wayne C.]

Originally Posted by tchescow

We're having some trouble to find a nice and CHEAP hotel in Trenton or nearby. As usually we'd appreciate some help...

Gian-

the question is "how cheap?" There are some larger hotels a few miles up the road on Rt 1 in the Princeton area including a Ramada and Novotel. You can probably find them on line. But you will need ground transport from them in either case. There is also the Scanticon ($$$) in the same area- very nice but not a cheap place.

WC

[Spikey]

As far as I know there is only 1 hotel actually in Trenton, rather sad for a state capital. The hotel is the Marriott Lafayette Yard Conference Hotel.
Trenton Marriott

[briholton]

Originally Posted by Spikey

As far as I know there is only 1 hotel actually in Trenton, rather sad for a state capital. The hotel is the Marriott Lafayette Yard Conference Hotel.
Trenton Marriott

There are many hotels in Trenton and in the area - just do a google search. Where you stay depends if you have transportation or not, which I would recommend coming from where you are. Mass transit is virtually non-existent in that area of my great state. If you have wheels, you'll have a place to stay. google it and pick a name brand. I take it the recommended hotels are full?

[tchescow]

Last year we rented two 15 place vans, as far as I know we're on our way to do the same thing this year.

[Guilherme]

Originally Posted by briholton

There are many hotels in Trenton and in the area - just do a google search. Where you stay depends if you have transportation or not, which I would recommend coming from where you are. Mass transit is virtually non-existent in that area of my great state. If you have wheels, you'll have a place to stay. google it and pick a name brand. I take it the recommended hotels are full?

We did google it, a lot. The question is: the rates are too high over the internet. For instance: we found rooms for 2 persons/room for U$ 109,00, and one person there in USA made a local research and found a MUCH better rate. So, that´s the difference, LOCAL research always work better.
Another example: a mentor from team 007 made a research and found room for 7 people/room for U$ 109,00 (GREAT and BEST rate ever), a very nice hotel... Guess what? U$ 159,00 was the cost to make reservations over the internet.

The same thing happens in Brazil, so if you come to our country, I´ll be glad to do some research on rates for you guys.

[Guilherme]

Originally Posted by Wayne C.

Gian-

the question is "how cheap?" There are some larger hotels a few miles up the road on Rt 1 in the Princeton area including a Ramada and Novotel. You can probably find them on line. But you will need ground transport from them in either case. There is also the Scanticon ($$$) in the same area- very nice but not a cheap place.

WC

First, some updates. Transportation issues: it´s not the main problem, last year we rented 15 passenger vans.

Hotels: we make a calculation of the cost per/person dividing the total per room by the number of persons in it. I.E U$ 73,00 / 4 persons = U$ 18,25. That´s our "measure" of how cheap the place is.

Now, we got one place in Princeton (13 miles from event), 7 persons/room for U$ 15,00/person (total U$ 109,00 per room). That´s cheap, for sure!

What we want to AVOID is those rooms that cost over U$ 30,00 per person -<- Those are the hotels recommended by FIRST.

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by Joe

First, some updates. Transportation issues: it´s not the main problem, last year we rented 15 passenger vans.

Hotels: we make a calculation of the cost per/person dividing the total per room by the number of persons in it. I.E U$ 73,00 / 4 persons = U$ 18,25. That´s our "measure" of how cheap the place is.

Now, we got one place in Princeton (13 miles from event), 7 persons/room for U$ 15,00/person (total U$ 109,00 per room). That´s cheap, for sure!

What we want to AVOID is those rooms that cost over U$ 30,00 per person -<- Those are the hotels recommended by FIRST.

Team 007 found a hotel 13 miles north of Trenton in Princeton, NJ. We have a bus so we didn't need to be near the Arena.
2 bedroom/2 bath/livingroom with sofabed/full kitchen/free laundry/free breakfast/24 hour convenience store for maximum of 7 people=$109 plus 6%tax. Restaurants nearby.
Staybridge Suites.
talk to Jasmine Curtis, the sales manager to get the deal.

[Guilherme]

I called the place and I´m waiting for team 1382 to confirm wether will they stay in this hotel with us or not.

Thank you very much for your help!

[Guilherme]

Thanks everyone for your help and gracious professionalism.

We´re staying in the Staybridges Suits, in Princeton.

Special thanks to RoboMom007, who got us this great place and great deal.

See you in the hotel!

[RoboMom]

Team 007 will look forward to meeting you on Thursday in the pits. Maybe we can have our own team social at the hotel!We'll have around 25 students and 4 adults.

[RoboMom]

And although the team can speak 11 languages, Portuguese isn't one of them....yet. We look forward to learning some

[Guilherme]

There´re two brazillian teams staying in this hotel, ours (1156) and Tribotec Team (1382).

1156 has 20 members, 1382 has 30 members. I don´t know about them, but we have 8 persons who speak english well, and the rest can "handle" some conversation...