Championship Event 2004 - Rate your hotels!!

[Elgin Clock]

Name of your hotel and Location (Atlanta, Suburb??)

Price per room: If known.

Ammenities: Details - Internet Access (charged for or free?), Breakfast?

Suprise Charges: If any.

Transportation to and from the Georgia Dome - Bus route, MARTA system, walk?

Relative closeness to food, and restaurants?

Any additional Comments?

Would you reccomend this hotel for FIRST teams next year?

Would you stay at the same hotel Next year?

And just for fun, What floor did you stay on?

[Joe Matt]

Omni Hotel, Atlanta


Price per room: Can't Remeber known.

Ammenities: Internet Access, Lots of Food Vendors, & Close to Competiton

Suprise Charges: None I know of.

Transportation to and from the Georgia Dome - Walk

Relative closeness to food, and restaurants? Very close, in same building.

Any additional Comments? CNN tour good, loads of good food, & close to Georgia Dome. Nice and upscale.

Would you reccomend this hotel for FIRST teams next year? YES!

Would you stay at the same hotel Next year? HECK YES!

And just for fun, What floor did you stay on? Floor 4, North Tower

[DCA Fan]

I'll start:
Name of your hotel and Location: THE OMNI! w00t!
Price per room: No blasted idea. Expensive sounds about right.
Ammenities: Free broadband internet!
Transportation to and from the Georgia Dome: Walk
Relative closeness to food, and restaurants: Down the stairs, around the corner
Any additional Comments? I wish they'd put the teams together in the same general floor. Our team had everyone in 3 floors of the North Tower and 2 rooms (including mine) in the South Tower which made it annoying to go back and forth.

Would you reccomend this hotel for FIRST teams next year? DEFINITELY. But let me reserve first

Would you stay at the same hotel Next year? Yes

And just for fun, What floor did you stay on? The 13th! O_O

[miketwalker]

Name of your hotel and Location (Atlanta, Suburb??): Holiday Inn, Midtown

Price per room: $75 or so

Ammenities: Details - Internet Access (charged for or free?), Breakfast? Free internet, GREAT breakfast buffet for free

Suprise Charges: None I know of.

Transportation to and from the Georgia Dome - Bus route, MARTA system, walk? Had to drive our own cars, not covered by MARTA

Relative closeness to food, and restaurants? Fast food and some restaurants within walking distance

Any additional Comments? Pretty decent rooms for the price

Would you reccomend this hotel for FIRST teams next year? Yep

Would you stay at the same hotel Next year? Definitly

And just for fun, What floor did you stay on? Heh, it was only 3 stories, I was on the 2nd.

[Berserker]

Super 8, Atlanta

Price-Overpriced for how bad it was

Ammenities: Continental Breakfast, Soda Machines

Transportation to and from the Georgia Dome - walked

Relative closeness to food, and restaurants- short walk to hooters and hard rock cafe

Any additional Comments?
crappiest hotel i have ever stayed in
blood stains in the matress

Would you reccomend this hotel for FIRST teams next year?
i wouldnt reccomend it to anyone or anything

Would you stay at the same hotel Next year?
no way

And just for fun, What floor did you stay on?
2

[Elgin Clock]

Name of your hotel and Location (Atlanta, Suburb??)
Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta Georgia
Price per room: If known.
Not sure, we had 4 people in our room though to keep costs down,
Ammenities: Details - Internet Access (charged for or free?), Breakfast?
Pool which I heard was salty, Paid internet access $15 for 24 hours (not worth it for the time I was in the hotel) Starbucks in the lobby.
Suprise Charges: If any.
None that I know of, except for high phone bill for a mentor who called home
Transportation to and from the Georgia Dome - Bus route, MARTA system, walk?
Took the MARTA sytem - $11.00 for a five day unliminted pass for each person, definately worth it. Had to transfer at Five Points Station, but was easy to navigate (for some)
Walked one day, and was 15 minutes from lobby to pits.. Not to shabby.
Relative closeness to food, and restaurants?
Hard Rock Cafe, McDonalds, and Hooters were right across the street. Restaurant on top of hotel - I'm guessing that was expensive though since it was a rotating Restaurant. Starbucks in the lobby.
Any additional Comments?
Very Nice place, easy to spot from anywhere in the city cause of it's unique cylindrical shape.
Elevators were a kind of pain, cause it was so tall, two sets of elevators, one set for the top floors, and one set for the bottom floors.
No way to take stairs up to 29th floor to bypass elevators if you felt up to it.
Excellent views from every room cause of the room layout for the cylindrical shaped hotel.
Would you reccomend this hotel for FIRST teams next year?
Yes, just get the MARTA pass too. Unless you feel up to a 15 minute walk everyday.
Would you stay at the same hotel Next year?
Yes and No. I like it, so yes. But I want to see what the other hotels in the area are like.
And just for fun, What floor did you stay on?
29th Floor

[Berserker]

yeah...me and a couple friends walked over to the westin....one of the nicest hotels ive ever seen....72 floors....the elevator was fun....couldnt get to the pool though cuz we didnt have a keycard

Name of your hotel and Location (Atlanta, Suburb??)
Regency "Suites", Atlana
Price per room: If known.
$115 I think
Ammenities: Details - Internet Access (charged for or free?), Breakfast?
Free Breakfast, refrigerator and microwave
Suprise Charges: If any.
$10 a night parking fee
Transportation to and from the Georgia Dome - Bus route, MARTA system, walk?
MARTA
Relative closeness to food, and restaurants?
Nothing really..
Any additional Comments?
Fair hotel...rooms maintained somewhat poorly, wallpaper peeled off in the room and the bathroom..
Would you reccomend this hotel for FIRST teams next year?
Definately not. Terrible hotel...id reccomend it as a last resort if you wanted to stay next to a MARTA line
Would you stay at the same hotel Next year?
NO! lol
And just for fun, What floor did you stay on?
9th

[Jones571]

Marriot Marquis
Price per room: ????????
Ammenities: Details-Internet Access 9.95 per day food tickets done by FIRST?

Suprise Charges: Nope.

Transportation to and from the Georgia Dome - MARTA system but it was quicker to walk and it was nice weather also.

Relative closeness to food and restaurants?- 3 places to eat in the hotel and then and easy 10 with in 3 blocks.

Any additional Comments? The security guards get mad when u keep ridding the elevator form the 47th floor the entrance level about half a dozen times

Would you recommend this hotel for FIRST teams next year? only if the omni is booked

Would you stay at the same hotel Next year? yes

And just for fun, What floor did you stay on? 29

[Paul H]

Mariot Marquis

Price per room: No idea...sorry

Ammenities: Details - $10 for internet access, food there, but not free

Suprise Charges: Not that I know of

Transportation to and from the Georgia Dome - We took our charter bus, but we walked one day and used MARTA once. It's not bad

Relative closeness to food, and restaurants? There were 3 or 4 restraunts in the hotel and it was connected to the Peachtree Center, which had a food court and MARTA stop.

Any additional Comments? The atrium was beautiful, the rooms were rooms. Nothing too special there. The thing is, the hotel was DEAD! We went to the omni one night, and within 5 minutes of being there we met about 10 FIRST kids. We met at least 25 kids that night. We didn't meet any at our hotel. Nobody hung out in the lobby. The Omni wasn't as nice, but the abundance of people more than made up for it.

Would you reccomend this hotel for FIRST teams next year? If more teams stay there/come out of their rooms!

Would you stay at the same hotel Next year? I'd rather stay in the Omni

And just for fun, What floor did you stay on? 25th

[omutton]

Name of your hotel and Location:
OMNI Hotel, CNN Centre, Atlanta

Price per room:
I forget, but most likely expensive (I love you GM!)

Ammenities:
Internet access in rooms (even though ours was messed up!) No breakfast but food was close by!

Suprise Charges:
Charged for movies (even though we never ordered any) and charged $23.00 for a long distance phone call we never made.

Transportation to and from the Georgia Dome:
Quick walk to the Georgia Dome

Relative closeness to food, and restaurants:
Food was right undrneath us!

Additional Comments:
Nice hotel! One of my team mates left some of his buttons on top of the dresser (don't ask me why he put them there!) and they are going to mail them back to him!

Would you reccomend this hotel for FIRST teams next year?:
Yes, if you are willing to pay for it or if you have an AMAZING sponsor like [blue] General Motors! [/blue]

Would you stay at the same hotel Next year?:
Of course!

Floor stayed on:
Floor 18! Room 1867 (year of Canadian Confederation and 100 years before the Leafs won the Stanlry Cup!)

[Michelle 236]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

And just for fun, What floor did you stay on?
29th Floor

hey we were right below you on the 28th!!!

[Aaron Lussier]

Name of your hotel and Location:
OMNI Hotel CNN Center Downtown Atlanta

Price per room:
Unknown

Ammenities:
Free Internet, mini bar, Balcony, Not everybody had one

Suprise Charges:
None

Transportation to and from the Georgia Dome:
Old New Balance 1022's

Relative closeness to food, and restaurants:
Food court downstairs, Hard Rock, Hooters with in walking Distance

Additional Comments:
Small pool

Would you reccomend this hotel for FIRST teams next year?:
Hell Yea

Would you stay at the same hotel Next year?:
See above

Floor stayed on:
6th Floor room 643!

-Aaron

[Nate Edwards]

Name of your hotel and Location:
Hyatt Regency Atlanta Peachtree

Price per room:
Don't remember about the price of Omni

Ammenities:
Free Internet, Balcony , Very open hotel, New rennovations, Mountain Dew !!!!(They actually had mountain dew in our hotel as well as Krispy Kreme it was awesome)

Suprise Charges:
None

Transportation to and from the Georgia Dome:
MARTA

Relative closeness to food, and restaurants:
Food court in mall connected to hotel, buffet on lobby level (very good salad bar even though im allergic to most of the food that was there), many near restaurants

Additional Comments:
Pool was empty, rennovations were nice, elevators, escalators, parachutes and mountain dew bottles are fun

Would you reccomend this hotel for FIRST teams next year?:
YES, only after we reserve our spot

Would you stay at the same hotel Next year?:
YES, it was so much better then what we stayed in before stupid HOJO

Floor stayed on:
14th Floor, I am in search of a hotel with floor 13 to prove my team wrong

[Stefan]

Name of your hotel and Location:
Hyatt Regency, Atlanta

Price per room:
? Dunno, but w/ the package deal was real cheap compared to what it normally is. Which was true for all hotels except maybe the lower end ones.

Ammenities: Details - Internet Access (charged for or free?), Breakfast?:
Free 802.11b Wifi access ESSID = Hyatt. Very good internet interms of bandwith avaibility (Soap was getting like 5mbps upload to Sevaa.com's servers). (Bring your laptop, also sold wifi cards for those that needed them, never did find out prices though) No Breakfast.

Suprise Charges: If any.:
None

Transportation to and from the Georgia Dome:
Walk, it was good and during the nice cool morning/afternoon hours. However, I would not recommend it if you plan on a carrying anything more than a laptop/backpack (which is just about the max you'd need to carry).

Relative closeness to food, and restaurants?
We found out on Friday night that via sky walk there was a bar / grill in the next building (Marriott Marquis pwnage hotel) and like a dairy queen and some other stuff in the one inbetween the 2. Since the sky walk was in the shape of an "L" it connected 3 buildings. So food wasnt too far, but all of us ate at CNN before we left.

Any additional Comments?
nice hotel

Would you reccomend this hotel for FIRST teams next year?
Yes

Would you stay at the same hotel Next year?
Yes

And just for fun, What floor did you stay on?
8th